PSCI 2223: Exam #1 Questions With Correct Answers.
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What is international relations? - answerA game of politics on the international level
What is politics? - answerA game of resource allocation (who gets what/when/how)
What are global politics? - answerChanging/setting the rules of the internat...
PSCI 2223: Exam #1 Questions With Correct
Answers.
What is international relations? - answer✔✔A game of politics on the international level
What is politics? - answer✔✔A game of resource allocation (who gets what/when/how)
What are global politics? - answer✔✔Changing/setting the rules of the international game
Resources states might compete for? - answer✔✔Natural, human capital, land
The state in international relations? - answer✔✔A dominant form of political organization (a
country)
Alternatives to the State - answer✔✔Tribes, city-states (Andorra), empires (Ottoman), city-
leagues (states banned together to pool resources), principality (Monaco), EU
Origins of the Modern State: Late Feudal Period - answer✔✔Lords provided
resources/word/protection (microsystem of order), the Church manipulated people into
submission - ensured no uprisings (macrosystem of order)
Origins of the Modern State: Key Changes - answer✔✔Renaissance era began challenging the
church through science, Gun Powder meant that castles were no longer indestructible (cannons)
Origins of the Modern State: Sovereignty - answer✔✔Treaty of Westphalia - "whose realm, his
religion"
Origins of the Modern State: Reinventing the State - answer✔✔French Revolution - created
concept of one-nation-one-state (governments began governing on behalf of "the people", it was
unclear who the people were, they had never politically mattered before this), Napoleon spread
the idea
The State Under Threat - answer✔✔Nationalism threatens the state because of threats of
succession
Levels of Analysis - answer✔✔Individual: Looking for key people and their connection to an
event
State: Conditions/attributes associated with the state
Dyadic: Relationship between two states
Systematic: World politics as a whole, (hegemony (is there one?))
Explanation of War from a Dyadic Level of Analysis - answer✔✔It is an interaction between
two actors whose preferences do not align
Realist View of the World - answer✔✔The world is in a constant state of anarchy, because of
this, all interactions are self-interested
Goal of States According to Realists - answer✔✔Acquire more power/grow the power gap
(zero-sum game)
Two Major Variants of Realism - answer✔✔Neorealism, classical realism
Classical Realists Explanation of Conflict - answer✔✔Human tendencies (greedy for power)
State of nature is a state of war (Hobbes)
Focuses on human nature
Neorealist Explanation of Conflict - answer✔✔Given the "state of world anarchy" there is no
reliable force to have your back if your country is threatened
The Security Dilemma
Neorealism: Means and Ends = - answer✔✔Causes and effects
The Security Dilemma - answer✔✔In the process of pursuing security you make others feel
threatened - perpetuating an arms race
Intellectual Origins of Realism - answer✔✔Machiavelli, Morgenthau, Hobbes, Thucydides
Hobbesian Competition - answer✔✔1) State of nature is a state of war
2) Relative power determines all
Liberal View of International Politics - answer✔✔International politics are an extension of
domestic politics: it is a pursuit of harmonious preferences (finding others with similar
preferences and pooling resources to work towards a single goal)
Interactions can benefit everyone
Liberal View of Anarchy - answer✔✔Admit its existence but through repeated interactions and
institutionalized rules it can be controlled
Solution: figure out a mechanism through which countries reputations are known and setting up
incentives to get the country to protect its reputation - do this by setting up a neutral international
system with information about every country
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