First Exam

Question 1

Actors (International/Global)

Answer 1

This refers to any entity that plays a role in international/global politics, including states, other organizations, and groups.

Question 2

International System

Answer 2

A system can be thought of as a whole that functions as a whole because of the interdependence of the parts.

Question 3

What does the international system consist of?

Answer 3

Actors and the processes that they use to interact across state borders.

Question 4

Interests

Answer 4

Interests being embedded with values and that actors want what they want because they attach value to it.

Question 5

States

Answer 5

Synonymous with county

Question 6

Who are the primary actors in the international system?

Answer 6

States

Question 7

Modern State

Answer 7

A political organization which, during the later Middle Ages and the early modern period developed into a territorially unified and administratively centralized independent unit.

Question 8

What is the modern state sometimes called?

Answer 8

Westphalian state

Question 9

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 9

Associated with a transfer of power from Church to government.

Question 10

State Jurisdiction

Answer 10

A domain of legal authority.

Question 11

First Empire Building Round

Answer 11

1500-1700

Question 12

Second Empire Building Round

Answer 12

1800s

Question 13

First Proliferation of Modern States

Answer 13

1800s

Question 14

Second Proliferation of Modern States

Answer 14

1945-1990

Question 15

Third Proliferation of Modern States

Answer 15

End of the Cold War (1989)

Question 16

How many members are in the UN?

Answer 16

193

Question 17

How many members were in the UN originally?

Answer 17

51

Question 18

Qualifications for a state in international law

Answer 18

1) A defined territory
2) A permanent population
3) Effective control over territory and population by a central government
4) The independent and competent ability to conduct relations with other states.

Question 19

Nation

Answer 19

A group of culturally and historically similar people who feel a communal bond and who feel they should govern themselves to at least some degree; includes ethinic groups or ethnicities.

Question 20

Physical MAPS

Answer 20

A unified reality divided only by natural features.

Question 21

Political Maps

Answer 21

Politically defined territories, political boundaries or borders that place an overlay on the physical map.

Question 22

Ethnic and Ethnonational Maps

Answer 22

Mapping cultural ares that designate those portions of the world who’s people share similar beliefs, customs, languages, and skills.

Question 23

Multinationalism

Answer 23

More than one nation in the same state.

Question 24

Irredentism

Answer 24

A nation having an interest in the recovery of territory culturally of historically related to nation but now subject to a foreign government.

Question 25

Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)

Answer 25

-Members are governmental bodies