Exam 1

Question 1

What is the expectation that states have ultimate authority within their territorial boundaries?

Answer 1

Sovereignty

Question 2

What is a common national identity, language, ethnicity, culture, and history?

Answer 2

Nation

Question 3

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

Answer 3

States

Question 4

What is the factor that explains who gets what, when, and how (compellance, deterance, asset and aspiration)

Answer 4

Power

Question 5

What power is tangible and material?

Answer 5

Hard Power

Question 6

What power is to persuade others to do or not to take certain actions?

Answer 6

Soft Power

Question 7

What, as an example, is estimated global nuclear warhead in US?

Answer 7

Absolute Power

Question 8

What power asks the questions “a lot?” “enough”?

Answer 8

Relative Power

Question 9

What is the absence of central authority in the global system?

Answer 9

Anarchy

Question 10

What are states, international organizations, international non-governmental organizations, and MNCs?

Answer 10

Actors

Question 11

What are established by states, states are members, and they can be global or regional?

Answer 11

International Organizations

Question 12

What has members that are primarily individuals, promotes particular causes, and started in France in 1971?

Answer 12

International Non-Governmental Organizations

Question 13

What are private for-profit organizations operating in more than one country?

Answer 13

MNCs

Question 14

What are the 3 Is?

Answer 14

1. Interests
2. Interactions
3. Institutions

Question 15

What is what actors want to achieve through political action?

Answer 15

Interests

Question 16

What are ways in which 2 or more actors’ choices combine to produce political outcomes?

Answer 16

Interactions

Question 17

What define the rules of the game?

Answer 17

Institutions

Question 18

What is when at least one actor is better off relative to the status quo without making others worse off?

Answer 18

Cooperation

Question 19

What are actions to ensure one’s own security that are perceived as threats to the security of other states?

Answer 19

Security Dilemma

Question 20

What is an alliance between military leaders and the industries that benefit from international conflict, such as arms manufacturers?

Answer 20

Military-Industrial Complex

Question 21

What is when actors decide how to divide something of value and one is better off than the other?

Answer 21

Bargaining

Question 22

What are the 4 aspects of bargaining failure?

Answer 22

1. Incomplete Information
2. Credibility
3. Commitment Problems
4. Indivisible Goods

Question 23

What are the 3 traits of credibility?

Answer 23

1.Brinkmanship
2. Tying Hands
3. Paying for power

Question 24

What are 3 commitment problems?

Answer 24

1. Bargaining over the future
2. Preventative War
3. Preemptive war

Question 25

What is the approach to the brink of war through provocative actions?

Answer 25

Brinkmanship

Question 26

What is when leaders show that they are determined and take costly steps to increase capabilities?

Answer 26

Paying for Power

Question 27

What is bargaining for goods that are a source of future bargaining power?

Answer 27

Bargaining over the future

Question 28

What is when it is better to fight in a war today in order to stop or slow the adversary from becoming stronger in the future?

Answer 28

Preventative War

Question 29

What is the surprise attack that gives someone first-strike advantage?

Answer 29

Preemptive War

Question 30

What is when both sides want something that cannot be easily divided or shared?

Answer 30

Indivisible Goods

Question 31

What are institutions that help their members cooperate militarily in the event of war?

Answer 31

Alliance

Question 32

What is a general assembly that includes all 193 members that answers any questions or any matters within the scope of the Charter of the UN and maintains international security and peace?

Answer 32

UN Security Council

Question 33

What is consent of parties, impartiality, non-use of force except with authorization in self defense and defense of mandate?

Answer 33

Peacekeeping

Question 34

What is government vs. rebel groups?

Answer 34

Civil War

Question 35

What is the kind of civil war that seeks to create an independent state on territory carved from existing state?

Answer 35

Separatist

Question 36

What is the kind of civil war that seeks to detach a region from one country and attach it to another country?

Answer 36

Irredentist

Question 37

What are the 4 country level factors of civil war?

Answer 37

1. Political Exclusion 2. Repressive/Corrupt Government 3. Poverty and Lack of Economic Opportunities 4. Ethnic, Religious, or Language Differences and Discriminatory Policies

Question 38

What are the 2 international factors of civil war?

Answer 38

1. Foreign states may be arming/aiding rebels whom they support 2. Foreign country has conflicts of interest with government

Question 39

What are the 4 efforts to end civil wars?

Answer 39

1. Peacekeeping 2. Negotiations/Peace Agreement 3. Long-term commitment to economic development and political stability 4. emphasizes building goodwill among the population by providing security, jobs infrastructure, goods, and services