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Summary of Introduction to Political Science Part 2- Final
Summary Introduction to Political Science Part 1- Midterm (Readings and Lectures)
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1. Which of the following sentences is false?
a. The peace of Westphalia is often argued to have been the birth of the modern state system based on the principle
sovereignty
b. The Treaty of Versailles saw the birth of a system of collective security that operated succefully until 1940
c. The Treaty of Rome was an important historical step on a road that some see as leading us to a future world of
regionalism rather than a world of fully sovereign states
d. The United Nations Charter strengthened the principle of non-intervention as a core element of international law in the
postwar era
2. Regarding a structural realist perspective on the recent invasion by Turkey of North_east Syria, which of the following is NOT
correct? From a structural realist perspective
a. The anarchy within the Syria state has made an invasion powerful neighbour Turkey almost inevitable
b. It could be argued that the Turkish invasion is motivated by that state’s concern for its national security, but in as far as
this security is threated by the Kurdish force in north-east Syria, the YPG, this does not fit the structural realist model
well.
c. It could be argued that Trump’s decision to move US troops out of north-east Syria makes sense for the US in to free
up resources to contain the much bigger threat of rising China.
d. The Turkish invasion could be taken as evidence of realist claim that it is power that decide outcomes in international
politics and that concern for human rights or international law does not play much of role.
3. What did Fukuyama mean with his thesis on the End of History?
a. That the system of rival states and rival political ideologies in the post-Cold war will be gradually replaced by
decentralized organizations, networks and virtual communities cutting across territorial jurisdictions and creating more
harmonious relations between people based on their common needs.
b. That after the ned of the ideological conflict of the cold war stated will agree to give up their national sovereignty and
accept some degree of central government at the world level.
c. That with the demise of communism the world had now reached the point of ideological evolution and the
emergence of western Liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
d. That the history of rival political ideologies arising out of Western modernity, such as liberalism, socialism and
conservatism , had ended with the fall of the Berlin wall and would now make way for a new history of a clash between
civilization.
4. What was the most important precipitating (triggering) cause of the end of the Cold War? According to Nye and Welch?
a. The soft power of liberal ideas.
b. The fall of the Berlin Wall.
c. The coming power of Mikhail Gorbachev.
d. The hard-line anti-communism of Ronald Reagan.
5. Which of the following explanations of WWII fits best with a structural realist (also called neorealist) perspective?
a. The rapid industrialization of a united Germany from the end of the 19th century onwards.
b. The lack of economic interdependence between the countries of the triple alliance on the one hand and the Triple
Entente on the other.
c. The structure of shared values and ideas between the allies on both ideas.
d. The lust for power and expansion on the part of all states as inherent in human nature.
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6. Whereas China has declared the …………… the South China sea a ‘’core interenst’’, the US views it to be its’’ international
interest’’ to ……………… in what it regards as
a. Application of the UN convention on the Law of the Sea to advance its own territorial claims: a disputed area under
international law.
b. Exploitation of the oil and gas resources of; contain Chinese expansionism: the territorial waters of its allies. Japan and
the Philippines.
c. Freedom of navigation in; defind the claims of Taiwan and the Philppinies ; a territorial dispute that should be settled
on the basis of international law.
d. Territorial control over, enforce freedom of navigation: international waters.
7. From a ………… perspective on the current relations between the US and China, the so called ‘’Thucydides trap’’ …………….. ?
a. Marxist; is a core neoliberal ideological concept used by US capitalists elites to justify waging a Cold War against China.
b. Liberal: is almost inevitable given the rise of China a non-liberal and non-democratic power.
c. Realist: is likely to be avoided because of the complex interdependence between the two countries.
d. Constructivist; could exist in minds of US and/or Chinese policy-makers because if the ideas they have about their
own and other country.
8. A constructivist perspective on anarchy would view anarchy above all as:
a. Varying in meaning depending on the meaning states in their social interaction give to it.
b. A system which cause states to construct a balance of power that allows each state to preserve its own values.
c. As the key feature of the international system that makes that states have to provide for their own security in order to
survive.
d. A legal construction that says that states are the highest authority in international politics since there is no world
government.
9. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. Revisionists stress the importance of individuals and claims that in particular the death of Roosevelt in 1945 was critical
event in causing the Col War as he was replaced by hardliner Truman.
b. Traditionalists explain the origins of the Cold War in terms of America’s mission to make the world safe for
democracy and thus its unstoppable drive to expand American ideals against Soviet Totalitarianism.
c. Post-revisionists see the Cold War as nearly inevitable due to the bipolar structure of the international system after
1945.
d. Revisionists explain the origin of the Cold War in terms of the expansionist need of American capitalism to open
markets to American goods and capital.
10. The revelations by Edward Snowden regarding the global surveillance of internet and mobile phone data could be seen as
calling into question which central claim that Nye and Welch make regarding the information revolution?
a. That the information Revolution deepens Complex Interdependence and hence promotes international cooperation.
b. That the Information Revolution has overall levelling and decentralizing effect on power and in particular empowers
non-state actors.
c. That the Information Revolution has reduced the costs rather than increased the speed of international
communications.
d. That the Information Revolution creates an overall diffusion of power and in particular equalizes power among states,
making small states more powerful and large states less powerful.
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