Quiz 2 key

Question 1

What is required to make compellence and deterrence effective?

Answer 1

States must have the means to make their threats believable.

Question 2

How do radicals believe states determine their foreign policies?

Answer 2

by following the economic imperatives of the dominant class

Question 3

When was the international system bipolar?

Answer 3

during the Cold War

Question 4

How do constructivists characterize the national interest?

Answer 4

National interests are socially constructed and constantly changing.

Question 5

Neoliberals see international institutions as

Answer 5

making state commitments more credible and enforceable.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT an example of diplomacy?

Answer 6

invading another country

Question 7

For radicals, who are the key actors in the international system?

Answer 7

capitalist and developed states

Question 8

Individual leaders are most likely to have a powerful influence in which of the following situations?

Answer 8

when there are few institutional constraints.

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a step in the rational model of decision making?

Answer 9

A state chooses the policy option that produces the best outcome, regardless of cost.

Question 10

Who do realists believe are the primary actors in international relations?

Answer 10

states

Question 11

Most scholars’ ideas about international systems come from studying

Answer 11

European history.

Question 12

To what does the term polarity refer?

Answer 12

the number of influential blocs that exert power in the international system

Question 13

Advocates of unipolarity attribute the stability of such a system to the

Answer 13

hegemon’s willingness to enforce norms needed to maintain the system.

Question 14

For liberals, the state is

Answer 14

a pluralist arena involving contending interests.

Question 15

Radicals believe that, within the international system, the division of access to resources across states is

Answer 15

uneven

Question 16

T/F Despite the success of economic sanctions in ending apartheid in South Africa, in general economic sanctions have not been very successful.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

T/F Realists and radicals downplay the importance of individual actors in international relations because both schools of thought believe that individuals are constrained by the anarchic international system.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

T/F Constructivists think that all important changes are driven by changes in a country’s power

Answer 18

False

Question 19

T/F Liberals view the international system as being made up of numerous actors including multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and sub-state entities.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

T/F Individuals can make more of a difference in international relations when political institutions are unstable or new than when political institutions are well established and functioning smoothly.

Answer 20

True