Midterm

A  The Beatles

B  Scorpions

C  The Bee Gees

D  Motown

A  Policy Tools

B  Policy

C  Grand Strategy

D  National Tools

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

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

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 you attack a person’s character instead of their ideas

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

C  When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

D  When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

A  a cost benefit analysis

B  using norms and practices to assume behavior

C  standard operating procedures

D  compromise between government agencies

A  Rational model

B  Organizational process model

C  Diplomatic model

D  Governmental bargain model

A  sanctions

B  military intervention

C  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

D  full scale war

A  your own people

B  the people of a foreign state

C  the government of a foreign state

D  Both the people and government of a foreign state

A  sanctions

B  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

C  an embargo

D  military intervention

A  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

B  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

C  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

D  the result of diplomatic efforts

A  Control the means of production

B  Live comfortable, wealthy, lives

C  Exploit the Bourgeoisie

D  Are exploited for their labor

A  They have common identities

B  They are busy exploiting poor countries

C  They never go to war at all

D  They team together to fight communism

A  False

B  True

A  Periphery countries

B  Core countries

C  Egregious countries

D  First world countries

A  Authoritarian

B  Democratic

C  Aristocracy

D  Republic

A  They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries

B  They do not exist

C  They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity

D  They are essential for trade

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

B  Anarchy is a human construct

C  Anarchy is growing

D  Anarchy exists

A  By random events

B  Only by the United States

C  By state’s view of the international system

D  Primarily by the system itself

A  True

B  False

A  Foreign dictators

B  The proletariat

C  The dregousis

D  The bourgeoisie

A  Democratic peace theory

B  Warhawkism

C  Collective security

D  Economic interconnectivity

A  Collective Security

B  Democracy

C  Economic Interdependence

D  Strict state control of industry

A  Classical liberalism

B  Liberal internationalism

C  Commercial liberalism

D  Republican liberalism

A  Identity

B  Submission

C  Reciprocity

D  Dominance

A  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

B  Joseph Nye

C  Immanuel Kant

D  Frances Fukuyama

A  Democracies are more likely to go to war

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

C  Democracies are less likely to go to war

D  Democracies do not go to war with one another

A  The system itself

B  Who has the biggest military

C  The actors in the system

D  Who has the largest population

A  The resolve of the people

B  Unknown powers

C  Cultural influence

D  Unmeasured military factors

A  Religion and Democratic Socialism

B  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

C  Religion and Nationalism

D  Communism and Socialism

A  Thomas Hobbes

B  Machiavelli

C  John Locke

D  Emanuel Kant

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

B  states simply react to changes in the international system

C  there is no international system

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

A  There can only be two winners

B  One country must be destroyed

C  Everyone loses

D  There can only be one winner

A  False

B  True

A  John Locke

B  Machiavelli

C  Thomas Hobbes

D  John Lennon

A  True

B  False

A  Power

B  Preserving natural rights

C  Wealth

D  Independence

A  The Melians

B  The Athenians

C  The Romans

D  The Spartans

A  Machiavelli

B  Hans Morgenthau

C  Thucydides

D  Thomas Hobbes

A  Pragmatism

B  constructivism

C  liberalism

D  self help

A  Military Size

B  Self interest

C  Vanity

D  Money

A  Tri-polar

B  Multi-polar

C  Bi-polar

D  Uni-polar

A  True

B  False

A  Russia

B  The United States

C  China

D  France

A  The emergence of the modern nation state

B  Few clearly defined territories

C  Clearly defined borders

D  Democracy

A  None of these are correct

B  A sovereign territory controlled by a government

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

D  A hierarchy of power

A  The Congress of Vienna

B  WWII

C  The French Revolution

D  WWI

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

B  A bi-polar regional system

C  The dominance of one country over others

D  A balance of power between nations

A  The 7 Years War

B  The Peace of West Germany

C  The Peace of Westphalia

D  The 50 Years War

A  Persia

B  Greece

C  The United States

D  Rome

A  How to solve the collective action problem

B  How to gain a comparative advantage over other states

C  How to create peace between nations

D  How to predict state behavior