Midterm

A  Scorpions

B  The Bee Gees

C  Motown

D  The Beatles

A  Grand Strategy

B  Policy

C  Policy Tools

D  National Tools

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 new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

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

C  When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

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

A  compromise between government agencies

B  a cost benefit analysis

C  using norms and practices to assume behavior

D  standard operating procedures

A  Diplomatic model

B  Governmental bargain model

C  Rational model

D  Organizational process model

A  sanctions

B  military intervention

C  full scale war

D  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

A  the people of a foreign state

B  Both the people and government of a foreign state

C  your own people

D  the government of a foreign state

A  an embargo

B  military intervention

C  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

D  sanctions

A  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

B  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

C  the result of diplomatic efforts

D  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

A  Live comfortable, wealthy, lives

B  Are exploited for their labor

C  Exploit the Bourgeoisie

D  Control the means of production

A  They are busy exploiting poor countries

B  They have common identities

C  They team together to fight communism

D  They never go to war at all

A  False

B  True

A  Periphery countries

B  First world countries

C  Egregious countries

D  Core countries

A  Republic

B  Aristocracy

C  Authoritarian

D  Democratic

A  They do not exist

B  They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries

C  They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity

D  They are essential for trade

A  Anarchy is growing

B  Anarchy exists

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

D  Anarchy is a human construct

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  False

B  True

A  The proletariat

B  The bourgeoisie

C  The dregousis

D  Foreign dictators

A  Economic interconnectivity

B  Warhawkism

C  Democratic peace theory

D  Collective security

A  Democracy

B  Collective Security

C  Strict state control of industry

D  Economic Interdependence

A  Commercial liberalism

B  Republican liberalism

C  Classical liberalism

D  Liberal internationalism

A  Dominance

B  Identity

C  Submission

D  Reciprocity

A  Joseph Nye

B  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

C  Frances Fukuyama

D  Immanuel Kant

A  Democracies are less likely to go to war

B  Democracies do not go to war with one another

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

D  Democracies are more likely to go to war

A  Who has the biggest military

B  The actors in the system

C  Who has the largest population

D  The system itself

A  Cultural influence

B  The resolve of the people

C  Unmeasured military factors

D  Unknown powers

A  Religion and Nationalism

B  Communism and Socialism

C  Religion and Democratic Socialism

D  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

A  Emanuel Kant

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  John Locke

D  Machiavelli

A  there is no international system

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

C  states simply react to changes in the international system

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

A  There can only be one winner

B  Everyone loses

C  One country must be destroyed

D  There can only be two winners

A  True

B  False

A  John Lennon

B  Machiavelli

C  John Locke

D  Thomas Hobbes

A  True

B  False

A  Independence

B  Power

C  Preserving natural rights

D  Wealth

A  The Melians

B  The Romans

C  The Spartans

D  The Athenians

A  Thucydides

B  Hans Morgenthau

C  Machiavelli

D  Thomas Hobbes

A  liberalism

B  self help

C  constructivism

D  Pragmatism

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  The United States

B  France

C  China

D  Russia

A  Clearly defined borders

B  Few clearly defined territories

C  Democracy

D  The emergence of the modern nation state

A  A sovereign territory controlled by a government

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

C  None of these are correct

D  A hierarchy of power

A  WWI

B  The French Revolution

C  WWII

D  The Congress of Vienna

A  A balance of power between nations

B  A bi-polar regional system

C  The dominance of one country over others

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

A  The 50 Years War

B  The Peace of Westphalia

C  The 7 Years War

D  The Peace of West Germany

A  Greece

B  Persia

C  Rome

D  The United States

A  How to create peace between nations

B  How to predict state behavior

C  How to gain a comparative advantage over other states

D  How to solve the collective action problem