Week 2

Question 1

The Round Table (Movement 1909, Journal 1910)

Answer 1

• a quarterly review of the politics of the British Empire

- the journal still exists today

Question 2

The Journal of Race Development (1910-1919)

Answer 2

• it wasn’t about the “white, black, asian race”, it was about the “Irish, Scottish, Dutch”, etc, races

Question 3

The Journal of International Relations

Answer 3

• Council of Foreign Relations (1920)

- as nations became states after war, the terminology started to change

Question 4

The Journal of Foreign Affairs (1922-today)

Answer 4

• policy oriented journal
• not hugely theoretical, much more practical - shows the progression of how the language of international affairs has changed

Question 5

(nation-)state

Answer 5

• territory, people, government (with legitimate monopoly on use of coercion) + sovereignty (de facto and/or de jure)

Question 6

sovereignty

Answer 6

• at a minimum
• 1) gained through recognition by other states, and
  2) confers some legal measure of freedom from interfere in international affairs (i.e. no higher authority) or
  3) carved out empirically (i.e. capacity both internal (governance/legitimacy) and external (security))

Question 7

Negative sovereignty

Answer 7

• de jure/legal, freedom from interference
• it doesnt give you the power to interfere or do whatever you want
  does give you a sort of legal protection

Question 8

Positive Sovereignty

Answer 8

• de facto/empirical

- capacity to govern

Question 9

Anarchy

Answer 9

• does not mean chaos or disorder; simply means a system where there is no higher authority, no legitimate hierarchical structure above the level of state (i.e. no world government hegemony)

Question 10

International Relations (IR) vs. Global Politics (GP)

Answer 10

• a study of interactions of states/other actors in international system vs relations among various organizations/global social relations that transcends regions & continents

Question 11

Ontology

Answer 11

• What is real? How does the world work?

Question 12

Epistemology

Answer 12

• How can we agree about what is a valid knowledge claim?

Question 13

Methodology

Answer 13

• How do we go about discovering new facts or testifying/falsifying our theories/hypothesis?
• How am I going to discover new facts and convince other people that these are facts?

Question 14

War and Security

Answer 14

• conflict

Question 15

Trade and commerce

Answer 15

• cooperation

Question 16

Rivalry and Balance of Power

Answer 16

• conflict & cooperation

Question 17

Institutionalization of Diplomacy & Trade (even war)

Answer 17

• cooperation

Question 18

Globalization, global governance, and resistance

Answer 18

• conflict & cooperation

Question 19

Diverse forms of political community prior to Westphalian State

Answer 19

• hunter/gatherer societies
• nomadic, village, or acephalous societies
• city states
• principalities
• centralized, hierarchical kingdoms or states
• overlapping authorities & allegiances

Question 20

Thucydides

Answer 20

• first social scientific historian…didn’t rely on the Gods for his information
• History of the Pelponnesian War

Question 21

Sun Tzu

Answer 21

• The Art of War

- He was writing a guide to better governance, and how to win the war

Question 22

“Realist” insights from History of the Pelponessian War

Answer 22

• always better to be powerful than weak
• systemic rivalry/challenge to status quo BoP causes war
• reputation and credible commitment are important aspects of power
• appeals to justice and reliance on distant allies, in the face of power, are irrational