Lesson 5: Interstate System

Question 1

Groups of independent states held together by a web of economic and strategic interests and pressures so that they are forced to take account of each other and those which make a conscious social contract by instituting rules and machinery to make their relations more orderly and predictable and to further certain shared principles and values.

Answer 1

International system

Question 2

Is a concept for analysis or description of international politics or relations, but therein lies a sense of prescription for diplomatic or military action too

Answer 2

International system

Question 3

It is predicated upon a definite notion of system. But it is not necessarily so when it is used to describe situations of international relations at a given time

Answer 3

International system

Question 4

is a concept with which to analyze or describe mainly Politico-economic global situations, while its implications for political action are derived but only indirectly

Answer 4

World Systems

Question 5

Came to be accepted as an academic term in the late 1950s, soon becoming fashionable, but more or less obsolete in the late 1990s

Answer 5

International system

Question 6

Began to be discussed in the 1970s, still maintaining popularity in the academia

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World Systems

Question 7

Have taken the place of “international system” as an academic key word in the 1990s

Answer 7

International regimes” and “global governance

Question 8

Is formed when two or more states have sufficient contact between them, and have sufficient impact on one another’s decisions, to cause them to behave—at least in some measure—as parts of a whole

Answer 8

International system

Question 9

Exists when a group of states, conscious of certain common interests and common values, form a society, in the sense that they conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations with one another, and share in the working of common institutions

Answer 9

International society

Question 10

States engage with one another in an environment known as the _____

Answer 10

International System.

Question 11

Ended the Thirty Years’ War between Catholic states and Protestant states in western and central Europe, and established our modern international system

Answer 11

The Peace of Westphalia

Question 12

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it emerged as the dominant political unit of the international system

Answer 12

Nation-state

Question 13

Weaker states often banded together to prevent the dominant power from becoming too strong, a practice known as preserving the _____

Answer 13

Balance Of Power

Question 14

After the second world war, only two great world powers remained: the United States and the Soviet Union. This global system was called _____ because the system centered on two great powers.

Answer 14

Bipolar

Question 15

Since the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, the nature of the world has changed again. Only one superpower remains, leading some scholars to label the new international system as ___

Answer 15

Unipolar

Question 16

The increasing economic power of some European and Asian states label the new system as_____

Answer 16

Multipolar

Question 17

Refers to relationships between states

Answer 17

International Politics

Question 18

Refers to relationships among states and other interest groups, such as global institutions, corporations, and political activists

Answer 18

Global Politics

Question 19

Seeks to understand how states work by comparing them to one another

Answer 19

Comparative Politics

Question 20

While_____ how states relate to one another, ____compare the internal workings of a state, its political institutions, its political culture, and the political behavior of its citizens.

Answer 20

international relations studies

comparative politics

Question 21

An _____ is an organization created either by a treaty or other instrument governed by international law and possessing its own international legal personality

Answer 21

international organization

Question 22

Two types of international organizations

Answer 22

1. International Governmental Organizations (IGOs); and

2. International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs or, more commonly, NGOs).

Question 23

Are formed when governments make an agreement or band together (Type of International Organization)

Answer 23

International Governmental Organizations

Question 24

Are made up of individuals and are not affiliated with governments (Type of International Organization)

Answer 24

International Nongovernmental Organizations

Question 25

INGO:

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International Nongovernmental Organization

Question 26

BINGO:

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Business-oriented Nongovernmental Organization

Question 27

RINGO:

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Religious-oriented Nongovernmental Organization

Question 28

ENGO:

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Environmental nongovernmental Organization

Question 29

GONGO:

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Government-operated Nongovernmental Organization

Question 30

QUANGO:

Answer 30

Quasi-autonomous Nongovernmental Organization