Midterm

A  The Bee Gees

B  Scorpions

C  The Beatles

D  Motown

A  Policy

B  Policy Tools

C  National Tools

D  Grand Strategy

A  The use of the military industrial complex

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

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 you attack a person’s character instead of their ideas

B  When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny

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

D  When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used

A  using norms and practices to assume behavior

B  compromise between government agencies

C  standard operating procedures

D  a cost benefit analysis

A  Governmental bargain model

B  Organizational process model

C  Diplomatic model

D  Rational model

A  full scale war

B  creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations

C  sanctions

D  military intervention

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  A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve

B  Overall national strategy to achieve goals

C  the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal

D  the result of diplomatic efforts

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 never go to war at all

C  They are busy exploiting poor countries

D  They team together to fight communism

A  False

B  True

A  Periphery countries

B  Egregious countries

C  First world countries

D  Core countries

A  Aristocracy

B  Republic

C  Authoritarian

D  Democratic

A  They are essential for trade

B  They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries

C  They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity

D  They do not exist

A  Anarchy is growing

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

C  Anarchy exists

D  Anarchy is a human construct

A  Only by the United States

B  By random events

C  Primarily by the system itself

D  By state’s view of the international system

A  True

B  False

A  The bourgeoisie

B  The proletariat

C  The dregousis

D  Foreign dictators

A  Economic interconnectivity

B  Democratic peace theory

C  Collective security

D  Warhawkism

A  Strict state control of industry

B  Democracy

C  Collective Security

D  Economic Interdependence

A  Commercial liberalism

B  Liberal internationalism

C  Republican liberalism

D  Classical liberalism

A  Dominance

B  Identity

C  Reciprocity

D  Submission

A  Joseph Nye

B  Frances Fukuyama

C  Immanuel Kant

D  Bill Nye, The Science Guy

A  Democracies are less likely to go to war

B  Democracies are more likely to go to war

C  Democracies do not go to war with one another

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

A  Who has the biggest military

B  The actors in the system

C  Who has the largest population

D  The system itself

A  Unmeasured military factors

B  The resolve of the people

C  Cultural influence

D  Unknown powers

A  Communism and Socialism

B  Nationalism and Democratic Socialism

C  Religion and Nationalism

D  Religion and Democratic Socialism

A  Machiavelli

B  Emanuel Kant

C  John Locke

D  Thomas Hobbes

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 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  John Lennon

C  Thomas Hobbes

D  Machiavelli

A  False

B  True

A  Power

B  Preserving natural rights

C  Independence

D  Wealth

A  The Melians

B  The Spartans

C  The Athenians

D  The Romans

A  Machiavelli

B  Thomas Hobbes

C  Hans Morgenthau

D  Thucydides

A  Pragmatism

B  constructivism

C  self help

D  liberalism

A  Military Size

B  Vanity

C  Money

D  Self interest

A  Multi-polar

B  Bi-polar

C  Uni-polar

D  Tri-polar

A  False

B  True

A  China

B  The United States

C  France

D  Russia

A  Democracy

B  Clearly defined borders

C  Few clearly defined territories

D  The emergence of the modern nation state

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

B  None of these are correct

C  A sovereign territory controlled by a government

D  A hierarchy of power

A  WWII

B  The French Revolution

C  The Congress of Vienna

D  WWI

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 7 Years War

B  The Peace of West Germany

C  The 50 Years War

D  The Peace of Westphalia

A  The United States

B  Persia

C  Rome

D  Greece

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