Midterm

A  Scorpions

B  The Bee Gees

C  Motown

D  The Beatles

A  Policy

B  Grand Strategy

C  National Tools

D  Policy 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 the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

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

C  When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

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

A  compromise between government agencies

B  standard operating procedures

C  using norms and practices to assume behavior

D  a cost benefit analysis

A  Rational model

B  Governmental bargain model

C  Diplomatic model

D  Organizational process model

A  military intervention

B  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

C  full scale war

D  sanctions

A  Both the people and government of a foreign state

B  the government of a foreign state

C  your own people

D  the people of a foreign state

A  military intervention

B  sanctions

C  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

D  an embargo

A  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

B  the result of diplomatic efforts

C  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

D  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

A  Live comfortable, wealthy, lives

B  Are exploited for their labor

C  Control the means of production

D  Exploit the Bourgeoisie

A  They have common identities

B  They team together to fight communism

C  They never go to war at all

D  They are busy exploiting poor countries

A  True

B  False

A  Periphery countries

B  Egregious countries

C  First world countries

D  Core countries

A  Republic

B  Aristocracy

C  Democratic

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 is a human construct

B  Anarchy is growing

C  Anarchy exists

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

A  By random events

B  Only by the United States

C  Primarily by the system itself

D  By state’s view of the international system

A  False

B  True

A  The proletariat

B  The dregousis

C  The bourgeoisie

D  Foreign dictators

A  Warhawkism

B  Democratic peace theory

C  Economic interconnectivity

D  Collective security

A  Strict state control of industry

B  Democracy

C  Economic Interdependence

D  Collective Security

A  Commercial liberalism

B  Liberal internationalism

C  Republican liberalism

D  Classical liberalism

A  Reciprocity

B  Dominance

C  Identity

D  Submission

A  Joseph Nye

B  Immanuel Kant

C  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

D  Frances Fukuyama

A  Democracies are more 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 less likely to go to war

A  The actors in the system

B  The system itself

C  Who has the largest population

D  Who has the biggest military

A  Cultural influence

B  Unknown powers

C  Unmeasured military factors

D  The resolve of the people

A  Communism and Socialism

B  Religion and Democratic Socialism

C  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

D  Religion and Nationalism

A  John Locke

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  Machiavelli

D  Emanuel Kant

A  there is no international system

B  states simply react to changes in the international system

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

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

A  There can only be one winner

B  One country must be destroyed

C  Everyone loses

D  There can only be two winners

A  True

B  False

A  John Locke

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  John Lennon

D  Machiavelli

A  True

B  False

A  Wealth

B  Preserving natural rights

C  Independence

D  Power

A  The Romans

B  The Spartans

C  The Melians

D  The Athenians

A  Machiavelli

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  Hans Morgenthau

D  Thucydides

A  liberalism

B  Pragmatism

C  constructivism

D  self help

A  Military Size

B  Money

C  Vanity

D  Self interest

A  Tri-polar

B  Bi-polar

C  Multi-polar

D  Uni-polar

A  False

B  True

A  The United States

B  Russia

C  China

D  France

A  Clearly defined borders

B  The emergence of the modern nation state

C  Democracy

D  Few clearly defined territories

A  A hierarchy of power

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 sovereign territory controlled by a government

A  WWI

B  The French Revolution

C  The Congress of Vienna

D  WWII

A  A bi-polar regional system

B  The dominance of one country over others

C  A balance of power between nations

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

A  The Peace of West Germany

B  The 50 Years War

C  The 7 Years War

D  The Peace of Westphalia

A  The United States

B  Persia

C  Rome

D  Greece

A  How to predict state behavior

B  How to gain a comparative advantage over other states

C  How to create peace between nations

D  How to solve the collective action problem