Midterm

A  The Bee Gees

B  The Beatles

C  Scorpions

D  Motown

A  National Tools

B  Grand Strategy

C  Policy Tools

D  Policy

A  The belief that government agencies, corporations, and research institutes work together to benefit from military spending

B  The use of the military industrial complex

C  An organization that tries to influence what the government does in order to advance their agenda

D  A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials, rather than by elected representatives

A  When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

B  When you attack a person’s character instead of their ideas

C  When there is a lack of dissenting opinion in a group

D  When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

A  standard operating procedures

B  using norms and practices to assume behavior

C  compromise between government agencies

D  a cost benefit analysis

A  Organizational process model

B  Diplomatic model

C  Rational model

D  Governmental bargain model

A  full scale war

B  military intervention

C  sanctions

D  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

A  Both the people and government of a foreign state

B  the people of a foreign state

C  your own people

D  the government of a foreign state

A  sanctions

B  military intervention

C  an embargo

D  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

A  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

B  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

C  the result of diplomatic efforts

D  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

A  Live comfortable, wealthy, lives

B  Control the means of production

C  Exploit the Bourgeoisie

D  Are exploited for their labor

A  They never go to war at all

B  They have common identities

C  They team together to fight communism

D  They are busy exploiting poor countries

A  False

B  True

A  Egregious countries

B  Periphery countries

C  First world countries

D  Core countries

A  Aristocracy

B  Authoritarian

C  Democratic

D  Republic

A  They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity

B  They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries

C  They are essential for trade

D  They do not exist

A  Anarchy is a human construct

B  Anarchy exists

C  Anarchy is growing

D  Only the United States is anarchic, not the entire international system

A  By state’s view of the international system

B  By random events

C  Primarily by the system itself

D  Only by the United States

A  True

B  False

A  Foreign dictators

B  The dregousis

C  The bourgeoisie

D  The proletariat

A  Democratic peace theory

B  Warhawkism

C  Collective security

D  Economic interconnectivity

A  Economic Interdependence

B  Collective Security

C  Strict state control of industry

D  Democracy

A  Liberal internationalism

B  Commercial liberalism

C  Classical liberalism

D  Republican liberalism

A  Dominance

B  Reciprocity

C  Identity

D  Submission

A  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

B  Joseph Nye

C  Frances Fukuyama

D  Immanuel Kant

A  Non-democratic countries are more likely to declare war on democratic countries

B  Democracies are more likely to go to war

C  Democracies are less likely to go to war

D  Democracies do not go to war with one another

A  Who has the largest population

B  The system itself

C  Who has the biggest military

D  The actors in the system

A  Unmeasured military factors

B  Unknown powers

C  Cultural influence

D  The resolve of the people

A  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

B  Religion and Democratic Socialism

C  Communism and Socialism

D  Religion and Nationalism

A  John Locke

B  Machiavelli

C  Thomas Hobbes

D  Emanuel Kant

A  a state’s position in the international system is purely luck

B  there is no international system

C  states rise or fall on the merit of their international decision making

D  states simply react to changes in the international system

A  Everyone loses

B  There can only be two winners

C  One country must be destroyed

D  There can only be one winner

A  True

B  False

A  John Locke

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  Machiavelli

D  John Lennon

A  False

B  True

A  Preserving natural rights

B  Wealth

C  Independence

D  Power

A  The Romans

B  The Spartans

C  The Melians

D  The Athenians

A  Machiavelli

B  Thucydides

C  Thomas Hobbes

D  Hans Morgenthau

A  constructivism

B  self help

C  liberalism

D  Pragmatism

A  Vanity

B  Military Size

C  Self interest

D  Money

A  Bi-polar

B  Uni-polar

C  Tri-polar

D  Multi-polar

A  False

B  True

A  Russia

B  France

C  The United States

D  China

A  Clearly defined borders

B  Democracy

C  Few clearly defined territories

D  The emergence of the modern nation state

A  None of these are correct

B  A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent

C  A sovereign territory controlled by a government

D  A hierarchy of power

A  The Congress of Vienna

B  WWII

C  WWI

D  The French Revolution

A  A balance of power between nations

B  The dominance of one country over others

C  A bi-polar regional system

D  A conflict between two minor states, sponsored by larger states

A  The Peace of West Germany

B  The 50 Years War

C  The Peace of Westphalia

D  The 7 Years War

A  Greece

B  Rome

C  Persia

D  The United States

A  How to create peace between nations

B  How to predict state behavior

C  How to solve the collective action problem

D  How to gain a comparative advantage over other states