Chapter 1/2

Question 1

Puzzle

Answer 1

Observations about the world
that demand an explanation. In some
cases, they arise because the world
does not work the way that we might
expect.

Question 2

Theory

Answer 2

A logically consistent set of
statements that explain’s
a phenomenon of interest.

Question 3

Probabilistic Claims

Answer 3

an argument about the factors that increase/decrease the likelihood of an outcome.

Question 4

Interests

Answer 4

what actors want to achieve through political action.

Question 5

Interaction

Answer 5

ways in which the choices of two or more actors combine to produce political
outcomes.

Question 6

Institution

Answer 6

set of rules known and shared by the community, that
structure political interactions in
particular ways.

Question 7

3 Levels of Analysis

Answer 7

International, Domestic and Transnational.

Question 8

Mercantilism

Answer 8

Era from 1492-1815. An economic doctrine
based on a belief that military power
and economic influence was
complements; applied especially to
colonial empires in the sixteenth
through eighteenth centuries.
Mercantilist policies favored the
mother country over its colonies and
over its competitors

Question 9

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 9

The Settlement that ended the Thirty Years’ War in 1648; often said to have created the
modern state system because it
included a general recognition of the
principles of sovereignty and
nonintervention

Question 10

Sovereignty

Answer 10

The expectation that
states have legal and political
supremacy- or ultimate authority within
their territorial boundaries

Question 11

Hegemony

Answer 11

The predominance of one

nation-state over others

Question 12

Pax Britannica

Answer 12

"British Peace” the century-long period beginning with napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in
1815 and ending with the outbreak of
WWI in 1914 during which Britain’s
economic and diplomatic influence
contributed to economic openness
and relative peace.

Question 13

Anarchy

Answer 13

The absence of a central authority with the ability to make and enforce laws that bind all actors

Question 14

State

Answer 14

A central authority with the ability to make and enforce laws, rules, and decisions within a specified territory.


Question 15

Cooperation

Answer 15

An interaction in which two or more actors adopt policies that make at least one actor better off relative to the status quo without making others worse off.

Question 16

Coordination

Answer 16

A type of cooperative interaction in which actors benefit from all making the same choices and subsequently have no incentive to not comply.

Question 17

Collaboration

Answer 17

A type of cooperative interaction in which actors gain from working together but nonetheless have incentives to not comply

Question 18

Realism

Answer 18

Self-Preservation, Military capabilities, uncertainty, Survival, Rational Actors.

Question 19

Liberalism

Answer 19

Humans are capable of cooperation, Progress in social life, Interests come from within the state Interests come from within the state.

Question 20

Constructivism

Answer 20

Focus on nonmaterial factors, Norms, and behavior. Role of Change, activists, and transnational actors.

Question 21

Linkage

Answer 21

The linking of cooperation on one issue to interactions on a second issue.

Question 22

Tragedy of the Commons

Answer 22

an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.