POLS 2200 Question and answers 100% correct
Realists are positivists because - correct answer law of balance of power, shrink down social world to basic natural principles
Constructivists are interpretivists because - correct answer trying to reveal social constructions, peeling back nor...
POLS 2200 Question and answers 100%
correct
Realists are positivists because - correct answer ✔law of balance of power,
shrink down social world to basic natural principles
Constructivists are interpretivists because - correct answer ✔trying to reveal
social constructions, peeling back norms, living in something that doesn't have
to be permanent
Anarchy according to Wendt - correct answer ✔anarchy is what you make of
it, doesn't necessarily have to result in war
Realism simplified - correct answer ✔states only real IR actors, anarchy, no
overarching international body, billiard ball
Liberalism simplified - correct answer ✔war isn't inevitable, cooperation,
many important actors, web
Ontology - correct answer ✔how we view and understand the world, what we
think reality is, how we see or understand the essence of the world around us
Epistemology - correct answer ✔how we approach the study of reality,
involves ways and means by which we come to know something
Positivism simplified - correct answer ✔measurable, objective reality; world
is separate from viewer; universal laws about how to world works; patterns
,Positivist Methodology - correct answer ✔modes of research and analysis or
set of rulers for practice of investigating IR
4 assumptions of Positivism - correct answer ✔study society as we study the
natural world; draw distinction analytically between facts and values;
regularities exist and can be identified in the social as well as the natural
world; empirical validation or falsification is the hallmark of real inquiry
4 levels of IR analysis - correct answer ✔individual; group; national; global
Actors at the individual level - correct answer ✔human nature and
psychology; leaders and their belief systems; personality of leaders;
perception and misperception
Actors at the group level - correct answer ✔government bureaucracies;
policy-making groups; interest groups, NGOs
Actors at the national level - correct answer ✔structure and nature of political
system; policy-making process; structure of economic systems; public opinion;
nationalism and ethnicity; political culture; ideology
Actors at the international level - correct answer ✔anarchic quality of world
politics; number of superpowers; distribution of power; alliances; patterns of
trade and finance; international organizations; international law
3 important elements of the state - correct answer ✔force, legitimacy,
monopoly
2 events that mark beginning of modern state system - correct answer
✔Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Peace of Westphalia (1648)
, Peace of Westphalia - correct answer ✔religion become under the ruler's
discretion thus establishing the foundation of sovereignty
hegemony - correct answer ✔relations of dominance, a state's power relative
to that of other states
quasi-states - correct answer ✔have juridical statehood but do not have
empirical statehood
Interpretivism simplified - correct answer ✔what we know is based on an
interpretation of what we think we see; world is subjective
Delian League - correct answer ✔alliance between greek city states; athens
supplied most of the military force; financial support from others; Sparta
became hegemon
Peloponnesian War - correct answer ✔Delian League turned into Athenian
Empire; Sparta and others feared Athens' power, resulted in war
Melos - correct answer ✔small, sparsely populated island; officially aligned
with Sparta; remained neutral and did not send arms, men or boats
Melian Dialogue - correct answer ✔Athens demanded Melos become part of
empire, Melians say no and that they shouldn't threaten a neutral state;
Athenians claim their empire feels threatened; Melians say that Sparta will
defend them and it will result in more Athenian deaths; Melos forced to wage
war on Athens
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