PSCI 2223 Exam Questions With Correct
Answers.
Levels of analysis - answerDecision Makers, Domestic Society, and International System
Actors in World Politics - answerNGOs, Government groups, IOs, and International NGOs
Liberalism - answerSystem : Anarchic with elements of order supported by ru...
Levels of analysis - answer✔✔Decision Makers, Domestic Society, and International System
Actors in World Politics - answer✔✔NGOs, Government groups, IOs, and International NGOs
Liberalism - answer✔✔System : Anarchic with elements of order supported by rules and laws
Actors: Nation-States and nonstate actors
Interaction: competitive, sometimes conflictual, often cooperative
Realism - answer✔✔System: Anarchic self-help, order through distribution of power
Actors: Nation-States, other actors derive power from state
Interaction: competitive, often conflictual, cooperative when serving short term benefit
Radicalism - answer✔✔System: Formally anarchic, but class hierarchy enforced by distribution
of wealth
Actors: Nation-States and nonstate actors deriving power from class
Interaction: competitive and exploitative in North-South relations, cooperative within
transnational classes
Rationalism - answer✔✔All actors are considered rational and capable and interact with the
international structure, autonomous processes create social structure
Constructivism - answer✔✔A movement in IR theory that examines how changing international
norms and actors' identities help shape the content of state interests.
Reflectivism - answer✔✔A perspective that rejects the idea that a social scientific approach to
world politics can be modeled on the natural sciences
structural power - answer✔✔ability to influence the context or environment of a state's decision
soft power - answer✔✔a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the
use of economic or cultural influence.
defense pacts - answer✔✔Each promises to come to the defense of any member in the event of
an attack
nonagression pact - answer✔✔Promise not to attack or assist and attacker
Entente - answer✔✔Way to find understanding/common ground
political openness - answer✔✔the extent to which a government is subject to influences from
society
military-industrial complex - answer✔✔defense industry and professional military, including
politicians whose districts benefit directly from military spending, and even labor unions whose
memberships are employed disproportionately in the defense sector
Iron Triangle - answer✔✔Politicians, Military, and defense contractors
rally-round-the-flag effect - answer✔✔The ability of a nation's leader to gather popular support
for foreign policy initiatives, especially during an international crisis
Diversionary War - answer✔✔international armed conflict intended to divert the public's
attention away from domestic problems or unpopular leaders
Inter-state war - answer✔✔conflict between two or more states (both members of the
international system), who use their respective national forces in the conflict.
Extra-state war - answer✔✔armed conflict between a state and a non-state entity, such as
colonial wars and wars with non-state national or terrorist groups
Imperial War - answer✔✔conflict with what was an independent political entity that was seeking
to maintain that independence, and that did not qualify as a member of the interstate system.
Colonial War - answer✔✔If the adversary was already a colony, a dependency, or a protectorate
composed of ethnically different people and located at some geographical distance from the
given system member, or at least peripheral to its center of government.
internationalized civil war - answer✔✔a system member intervenes in a civil war that is ongoing
within another state
Intra-state war - answer✔✔Civil War
Global/systemic war - answer✔✔include numerous participants/great powers
Why states fight - answer✔✔territorial disputes
creation of new states
economic issues
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