Ch. 1-Globalization

Question 1

The relationships among the world’s state governments and the connection of those relationships with other actors (UN), with other social relationships (economics), & with geographic and historical influences

Answer 1

International relations

Question 2

A tangible or intangible good, created by the members of a group, that is available to all group members regardless of their individual contribution; participants can gain by lowering their own contribution, yet if too many do so, the good cannot be provided

Answer 2

Collective goods problem

Question 3

A principle for solving collective goods problems by imposing solutions hierarchically

Answer 3

Dominance

Question 4

A response in kind to another’s actions; uses positive forms of leverage to promise rewards and negative forms of leverage to threaten punishment

Answer 4

Reciprocity

Question 5

A principle for solving collective goods problems by changing participants’ preferences based on their shared sense of belonging to a community

Answer 5

Identity

Question 6

Distinct spheres of intl. activity (such as global trade negotiations) within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and sometimes achieve cooperation

Answer 6

Issue areas

Question 7

The types of actions that states take toward each other through time

Answer 7

Conflict and cooperation

Question 8

A subfield of intl. relations that focuses on questions of war and peace

Answer 8

International security

Question 9

The study of the politics of trade, monetary, and other economic relations among nations, and their connection to other transnational forces

Answer 9

International political economy

Question 10

An inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that exercises sovereignty over its territory

Answer 10

State

Question 11

The set of relationships among the world’s states, structured by certain rules and patterns of interaction

Answer 11

International system

Question 12

States whose populations share a sense of national identity, usually including a language and culture

Answer 12

Nation-states

Question 13

The size of a state’s total annual economic activity

Answer 13

GDP

Question 14

Actors other than state governments that operate either below the level of the state or across state’s borders

Answer 14

Nonstate actors

Question 15

An organization (such as the UN) whose members are state governments

Answer 15

Intergovernmental organizations (IGO)

Question 16

A transnational group (such as Catholic Church) that interacts with states, multinational corporations, and IGOs

Answer 16

Nongovernmental organization (NGO)

Question 17

The increasing integration of the world in terms of communications, culture, and economics; may also refer to changing subjective experiences of space and time accompanying this process

Answer 17

Globalization

Question 18

The disparity in resources (income, wealth, power) between the industrialized, relatively rich countries of the West and the poorer countries of Africa, Middle East, and much of Asia and Latin America

Answer 18

North-South gap

Question 19

An organization established after WWI and a forerunner of today’s UN

Answer 19

League of Nations

Question 20

A symbol of the failed policy of appeasement allowing Nazi Germany to occupy a part of Czechoslovakia. Rather than appease Germany, it was followed by further German expansions, triggered WWII

Answer 20

Munich Agreement

Question 21

The hostile relations, punctuated by occasional periods of improvement or détente, between the two superpowers, the US and Soviet Union

Answer 21

Cold War

Question 22

A policy adopted in the late 1940s by which the US sought to halt the global expansion of Soviet influence on several levels

Answer 22

Containment

Question 23

A rift in the 1960s between the communist powers of the Soviet and China, fueled by China’s opposition to Soviet moves toward peaceful coexistence with the US

Answer 23

Sino-Soviet split

Question 24

A superpower crisis, sparked by the Soviet’s installation of medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba

Answer 24

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 25

Wars in the third world in which the US and the Soviet jockeyed for position by supplying and advising opposing factions

Answer 25

Proxy wars