Midterm

A  Motown

B  The Bee Gees

C  The Beatles

D  Scorpions

A  Policy Tools

B  Grand Strategy

C  National Tools

D  Policy

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

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

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

D  The use of the military industrial complex

A  When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

B  When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

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

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

A  compromise between government agencies

B  a cost benefit analysis

C  standard operating procedures

D  using norms and practices to assume behavior

A  Rational model

B  Organizational process model

C  Diplomatic model

D  Governmental bargain model

A  military intervention

B  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

C  full scale war

D  sanctions

A  the people of a foreign state

B  your own people

C  the government of a foreign state

D  Both the people and government of a foreign state

A  military intervention

B  sanctions

C  an embargo

D  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

A  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

B  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

C  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

D  the result of diplomatic efforts

A  Exploit the Bourgeoisie

B  Control the means of production

C  Live comfortable, wealthy, lives

D  Are exploited for their labor

A  They are busy exploiting poor countries

B  They never go to war at all

C  They team together to fight communism

D  They have common identities

A  False

B  True

A  Egregious countries

B  First world countries

C  Core countries

D  Periphery countries

A  Democratic

B  Aristocracy

C  Republic

D  Authoritarian

A  They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries

B  They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity

C  They are essential for trade

D  They do not exist

A  Anarchy exists

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

C  Anarchy is growing

D  Anarchy is a human construct

A  Primarily by the system itself

B  By random events

C  By state’s view of the international system

D  Only by the United States

A  True

B  False

A  The dregousis

B  Foreign dictators

C  The proletariat

D  The bourgeoisie

A  Warhawkism

B  Collective security

C  Democratic peace theory

D  Economic interconnectivity

A  Strict state control of industry

B  Collective Security

C  Economic Interdependence

D  Democracy

A  Classical liberalism

B  Commercial liberalism

C  Republican liberalism

D  Liberal internationalism

A  Dominance

B  Reciprocity

C  Identity

D  Submission

A  Immanuel Kant

B  Joseph Nye

C  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

D  Frances Fukuyama

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

B  Democracies are less likely to go to war

C  Democracies are more likely to go to war

D  Democracies do not go to war with one another

A  The system itself

B  The actors in the system

C  Who has the biggest military

D  Who has the largest population

A  The resolve of the people

B  Unknown powers

C  Unmeasured military factors

D  Cultural influence

A  Religion and Democratic Socialism

B  Communism and Socialism

C  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

D  Religion and Nationalism

A  Machiavelli

B  John Locke

C  Thomas Hobbes

D  Emanuel Kant

A  there is no international system

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

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

D  states simply react to changes in the international system

A  There can only be two winners

B  Everyone loses

C  There can only be one winner

D  One country must be destroyed

A  False

B  True

A  John Locke

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  Machiavelli

D  John Lennon

A  False

B  True

A  Wealth

B  Independence

C  Power

D  Preserving natural rights

A  The Romans

B  The Athenians

C  The Spartans

D  The Melians

A  Thomas Hobbes

B  Thucydides

C  Hans Morgenthau

D  Machiavelli

A  constructivism

B  self help

C  Pragmatism

D  liberalism

A  Vanity

B  Self interest

C  Money

D  Military Size

A  Bi-polar

B  Uni-polar

C  Multi-polar

D  Tri-polar

A  False

B  True

A  France

B  Russia

C  China

D  The United States

A  The emergence of the modern nation state

B  Few clearly defined territories

C  Clearly defined borders

D  Democracy

A  A hierarchy of power

B  None of these are correct

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

D  A sovereign territory controlled by a government

A  WWI

B  The Congress of Vienna

C  The French Revolution

D  WWII

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 50 Years War

B  The 7 Years War

C  The Peace of West Germany

D  The Peace of Westphalia

A  Rome

B  Greece

C  The United States

D  Persia

A  How to create peace between nations

B  How to gain a comparative advantage over other states

C  How to solve the collective action problem

D  How to predict state behavior