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PLSC 14 Exam 1 Lemke questions wellanswered to pass (9)
States - correct answer ✔✔Territorial entities within which a central authority provides public goods
Governments - correct answer ✔✔Beauracratic-Legal Apparatus constituting that central authority
Nations - correct answer ✔✔sets of people sharing identity of a cultural, ethnic, or historic sort
States: Correlates of War Defenition - correct answer ✔✔-500,000+ population
-Externally Soverign; control own foreign policy
-Diplomatic recognition (1816-1919 by Britain and France, 1920-on by League or UN membership
-currently ~ 190 territories labeled by this definition
State-Like Entities - correct answer ✔✔-Control territory, population which they "govern" to varying
extents
-LACK diplomatic recognition
-Usually arise in weak sates, early in state histories, or in war-torn areas
-Outnumber soverign states 3:1
-Examples: ISIS, Somaliland, Confederate States of America
International Governmental Organizations (IGO's) - correct answer ✔✔Composed of States as members,
and are either global or regional, and are either single or multipurpose
Collective Security IGO's - correct answer ✔✔Ex: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Economic IGO's - correct answer ✔✔Ex: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
, International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO's) - correct answer ✔✔Composed of non-state
members from two or more countries. Usually exist to pressure governments, or to provie services
governments will not (ex. Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders)
Multi-National Corporations - correct answer ✔✔Trans-national businesses with facilities in two or more
states
Terrorist Networks - correct answer ✔✔Non-state, but often state-supported trans-national interest
groups specializing in violence.
Individuals - correct answer ✔✔Extraordinary personalities (John Paul II, Mandela, etc.) that influence
world politics.
Fundamental Characteristics of the International System Under *Realism* - correct answer ✔✔-Anarchy:
absence of a central authority
-Uncertianty: about the intentions of others
Due to anarchy, states have to defend themselves, thus IR is a *self-help* system
How do states help themselves under Realism? - correct answer ✔✔They maximize power
Security Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔A dilemma that arises when efforts that states make to defend
themselves cause other states to feel less secure. This dilemma can lead to arms races and war due to
fear of being attacked.
Under Realism, IR is... - correct answer ✔✔Fraught with conflict, international cooperation is unlikely,
and intrnational organizations are ineffective
Fundamental Characteristics of the International System Under *Liberalism* - correct answer ✔✔-
Interantional system is anarchic, but it is *not* a war of all against all; coordination and collective action
problems dominate
-States *maximize utility* or welfare, not power
-Power is different in different areas of interaction
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