Midterm

Question 1

One reason political scientists develop theories is to

Answer 1

Understand the causes of events

Question 2

3 of the more prominent theoretical approaches to IR

Answer 2

1. liberalism
2. realism
3. radicalism

Question 3

Liberalism focuses on what 2 things?

Answer 3

1. human nature is good

2. states cooperate

Question 4

The study of individual cases is used in what approach to IR?

Answer 4

Historical

Question 5

What two important tools were used by Karl Marx?

Answer 5

1. Class analysis

2. dialectical reasoning

Question 6

Who first introduced class analysis and dialectical reasoning (later used by Karl Marx)?

Answer 6

Plato

Question 7

Thucydides concluded that the underlying cause of Peloponnesian war was what?

Answer 7

changing distribution of powers between Athens and Sparta

Question 8

Kant believed what that Hobbes and Rousseau did not?

Answer 8

humans could learn to improve their situation

Question 9

The analysis of core texts is used in what approach to IR?

Answer 9

Philisophical

Question 10

What does Rousseau’s story of the stag and the hare not illustrate?

Answer 10

the benefits of anarchy

Question 11

A philosophical approach to IR includes what 2 things?

Answer 11

1. posing foundational questions

2. seeking normative answers

Question 12

The objective of behaviorists is to gather data on human behavior patters and then

Answer 12

develop and test hypothesis.

Question 13

Behavioralism posits that

Answer 13

individuals, both alone and in groups, act in predictable ways.

Question 14

What was the goal of the Correlates of War project?

Answer 14

to explain why wars break out

Question 15

Radicalism focuses on what? (2 things)

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1. economic classes

2. stratification

Question 16

Postmodernists seek to do what? (2 things)

Answer 16

1. deconstruct basic concepts

2. replace them with multiple meanings

Question 17

Theorists who use alternative methods to study IR agree that

Answer 17

it is important to study social and cultural factors

Question 18

scholars who disagree with historical, behavioral, and philosophical methods have turned to analyzing what 3 things?

Answer 18

1. culture
2. norms
3. social practices

Question 19

Constructivists

Answer 19

trace impact of ideas and cultural factors on shaping identities.

Question 20

Now international relations scholars use (how many methods)

Answer 20

a variety