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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles and practices of diplomacy within the context of contemporary international affairs. Students will explore the evolution of diplomatic methods, the role of international organizations, and the impact of global political, economic, and cultural forces on inter-state relations. The curriculum emphasizes negotiation strategies, conflict resolution, and the influence of non-state actors in shaping diplomatic outcomes. Through case studies and simulations, participants gain practical skills in diplomatic communication, crisis management, and policy formulation, preparing them for careers in government, international organizations, and related fields.
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World Politics 4th Edition by Jeffry A. Frieden
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Chapter 1: What Shaped Our World
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Q1) Which of the following is true of economic prosperity during the Pax Britannica?
A)The entire world benefitted from European Trade.
B)British bankers were hurt by increasing world trade.
C)Non-European states were exploited for European gain.
D)During the Pax Britannica,states experienced both economic gain and widespread war.
Answer: C
Q2) The end of the Cold War was preceded by which event in the 1980s?
A)Decreased military spending by the United States
B)Increased Soviet repression in Eastern Europe
C)Policies of greater openness and economic reconstruction in the Soviet Union
D)Economic recovery in the Soviet Union
Answer: C
Q3) After World War I:
A)the German economy rebounded relatively quickly.
B)the League of Nations was created to avoid another war.
C)few new countries became independent.
D)the Austrian and Ottoman empires survived until the next war.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Understanding Interests, interactions, and Institutions
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a game of Chicken?
A)A trade agreement in which each side wants more concessions from the other country.
B)A nuclear crisis in which each side wants to take a tough stance.
C)A peacekeeping mission for which countries are reluctant to send their troops.
D)An invasion of a small country by a large coalition of countries that did not want to attack alone.
Answer: B
Q2) Explain how the number of actors,iteration,the importance of the future,and information contribute to successful cooperation.
Answer: Multiple iterations and the expectation of future interaction make it possible for actors to impose costs in the next round if actors defect in the current one.Cooperation is more difficult if there are more actors because there needs to be clarity regarding communication between actors.The more actors,the greater the likelihood of miscommunication and miscoordination.Similarly,cooperation requires that all actors have sufficient information about events in order to cooperate successfully.
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Chapter 3: Why Are There Wars
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Q1) Which is the best definition of total war?
A)A state mobilizes its entire military and economic resources.
B)Most of the states in the world are involved in the war.
C)Most of the states in one region are involved in the war.
D)The war results in at least 1,000 battle deaths.
Answer: A
Q2) How did incomplete information cause Kuwait to make a mistake when Iraq threatened to attack in 1990?
A)Kuwait did not know that Saddam Hussein was willing to wage war and decided not to make sufficient concessions.
B)Kuwait did not know that Saddam Hussein had moved many of his troops to the border between Iraq and Kuwait.
C)Kuwait had decided to make the concessions that Saddam Hussein wanted,but the message to Iraq was not properly sent by Kuwaiti bureaucrats.
D)Kuwait did not know that the United States would come to its aid if a war was to occur.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Domestic Politics and War
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Q1) Why did Argentina attack the Falkland Islands/Malvinas?
A)The Argentine government expected that taking control of the islands would improve its ability to stay in power.
B)The Argentine public pressured the government to retake the islands.
C)Argentine business groups pushed for the government to safeguard their economic interests in the islands.
D)The Argentine government felt it had to launch a preemptive war.
Q2) Which example demonstrates the importance of the military as a domestic actor?
A)Following Argentina's defeat by the British in 1982,the Argentine military leadership was forced from power.
B)The leader of the Argentine military government,General Leopoldo Galtieri,decided to launch an attack on the Malvinas to generate nationalistic feelings.
C)In 1991,Saddam Hussein was convinced that the American public would not intervene on behalf of Kuwait.
D)Iraqi military officials were unaware that Iraq did not actually possess weapons of mass destruction.
Q3) How do democratic institutions help the general public restrain their leaders from engaging in risky wars?
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Chapter 5: International Institutions and War
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Q1) Which of the following is a reason an alliance commitment might not be reliable?
A)Alliances are legal obligations.
B)Allies rarely agree on when to act.
C)The lack of an ironclad agreement (in order to avoid entrapment)could cause a state not to act.
D)Incomplete information might prevent states from knowing when they are supposed to act.
Q2) What was the League of Nations?
A)An alliance created by democratic nations during World War I to oppose Germany and Austria-Hungary
B)A group of states that sought to remain neutral during the Cold War
C)A confederation of states created after World War I to act as a world government
D)A collective security organization created after World War I to prevent future wars
Q3) Although states are thought to have a "responsibility to protect" civilians experiencing humanitarian crises,what might prevent states from engaging in humanitarian intervention?
Q4) Why has NATO survived after the end of the Cold War?
Q5) How does the presence of an alliance alter the bargaining model of war?
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Chapter 6: Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism
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Q1) An irredentist rebel group demands:
A)subnational autonomy over a region.
B)for a particular region to join another state.
C)control over the mechanisms of the state.
D)control over the economic resources of the state.
Q2) Insurgents:
A)are primarily concerned in taking military objectives against a conventional army.
B)fight conventional battles against state armies.
C)rarely wear distinctive uniforms and attempt to blend in with the population.
D)win by defeating opposing military forces.
Q3) What was the effect of the Syrian state's retraction from control over all of its territory?
A)The creation of a Sunni-Shia treaty to rule Iraq
B)The expansion of U.S.forces into those territories to control and overturn the Syrian regime
C)A power vacuum that resulted in the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
D)An invasion by neighboring Iraqi forces
Q4) Can states effectively prevent or deter terrorism? Why or why not?
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Chapter 7: International Trade
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Q1) Which of the following explains why the 2016 American presidential election was particularly anti-trade?
A)In the year prior to the election,Congress had delegated more trade power to the president,increasing the salience of the issue in the election.
B)After the 2008 economic crisis,U.S.exports had decreased so dramatically that hardly any jobs depended on trade anymore.
C)The recent surge in imports from China had led to more polarization about trade in some parts of the United States than previously.
D)Increased competition from the European Union created a desire in both parties to limit trade.
Q2) What is the Stolper-Samuelson theorem?
A)The theory that protection hurts the scarce sector
B)The theory that protection hurts the scarce factor of production
C)The theory that protection benefits the abundant factor of production
D)The theory that protection benefits the scarce factor of production
Q3) Explain how trade bargaining problems can resemble a Prisoner's Dilemma.
Q4) How do international institutions affect whether the world trading system is more or less open?
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Chapter 8: International Financial Relations
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Q1) Why did restrictions on immigration increase during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States?
A)Immigration was so low that it wasn't controversial until the latter half of the nineteenth century.
B)Unions gained more power over this time period and were better able to influence policy outcomes.
C)A series of economic crises and depressions led to increasing opposition to immigration.
D)The changing racial composition of the typical immigrant led to different levels of opposition over time.
Q2) How do international financial institutions contribute to global cooperation between investors and borrowers?
Q3) Which of the following is an example of foreign direct investment?
A)Ford Motor Company builds an automobile factory in Argentina.
B)Citicorp makes a loan to the queen of England.
C)A Nigerian ship-owner obtains insurance from Lloyd's of London.
D)Grameen Bank provides microloans to small weaving cooperatives in Bangladesh.
Q4) Why have financial and debt crises been recurring features of the global economy?
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Chapter 9: International Monetary Relations
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Q1) Which of the following countries is most likely to fix their currency to the U.S.dollar?
A)Canada
B)Brazil
C)Panama
D)Germany
Q2) Why do higher interest rates usually lead to currency values increasing?
A)Investors need to purchase the domestic currency to invest in that country and collect the higher interest rate.
B)The higher interest rate leads to inflation,which increases the price of currency together with all other products.
C)High interest rates encourage people to import more foreign goods,which will lead to more demand for the domestic currency.
D)Countries usually increase interest rates to fight recessions,and the resulting growth of the economy increases demand for that country's currency.
Q3) Why do currency crises occur?
Q4) Why do monetary interactions between governments sometimes resemble a Prisoner's Dilemma?
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Chapter 10: Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Q1) Countries in which people live on less than $1,000 a year are generally concentrated in what region of the world?
A)North Asia
B)South America
C)Sub-Saharan Africa
D)Eastern Europe
Q2) Which of the following is consistent with the Washington Consensus?
A)Lowering tariffs
B)Increasing restrictions on foreign investment
C)Increasing government spending on infrastructure
D)Decreasing inflation
Q3) Which of the following best describes an environment where the government has an interest in pursuing policies that impede economic growth?
A)Workers are advocating for the expansion of education across the country.
B)Owners of labor-intensive plantations and mines are lobbying against urbanization and industrialization.
C)Poor farmers are lobbying for better protection of their property rights.
D)Skilled workers are lobbying for foreign aid to enhance the technical capacity of production.
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Chapter 11: International Law and Norms
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Q1) Customary international law is different from normal international law in that it:
A)is more optional compared to other kinds of international law.
B)is more about etiquette and proper diplomatic behavior.
C)is often developed over time as acceptable practices evolve.
D)deals with issues of culture,as opposed to economic or political issues.
Q2) Describe the role of TANs in the boomerang model of influence.Give an example of the boomerang model.
Q3) What are secondary rules?
A)Less important international laws
B)The powers and processes by which primary rules are made and changed
C)Rules dealing with communication and transportation
D)Rules that are not concerned with war but with areas such as economics
Q4) Which of the following is a characteristic of hard law?
A)Low obligation
B)Vague
C)High delegation
D)Low enforcement
Q5) What is the norms life cycle? Give an example of a norm going through the stages of the norms life cycle.
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Chapter 12: Human Rights
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Q1) When are states most likely to take action on human rights?
A)When states have no self-interest in the country where abuses are taking place
B)When states can reconcile the principle of sovereignty with intervention in the name of human rights
C)When there is little public information on the abuses,so that states can encourage abusers to "save face" and stop violating their citizens' rights before the information becomes public
D)When there is no international court with jurisdiction to enforce human rights in the country where the abuses are taking place
Q2) All of the following represent cases where countries might be likely to take action against human rights violations,EXCEPT:
A)Large-scale human rights abuses are being committed in an oil-producing country.
B)Large-scale human rights abuses are being committed in a small island country.
C)Widespread human rights abuses are being committed in a country vital to the global economy.
D)Widespread human rights abuses are being committed in a country that is an important ally to major powers.
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Chapter 13: The Global Environment
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Q1) Why are complete bans often more effective that numerical restrictions on pollution?
Q2) What is a common-pool resource?
A)A good that is nonexcludable but rival in consumption
B)A cost or benefit for stakeholders other than the actor undertaking an action
C)An effect created by the interaction between two states
D)A good that is nonexcludable and nonrival in consumption
Q3) What is an externality?
A)A good that is nonexcludable but rival in consumption
B)A cost or benefit for stakeholders other than the actor undertaking an action
C)An effect created by the interaction between two states
D)A good that is nonexcludable and nonrival in consumption
E)An international agency that monitors compliance with regulations
Q4) Which of the following is an example of a common-pool resource?
A)Restoration of the ozone layer
B)The Grand Banks fishery off the coast of North America
C)A beehive that pollinates plants located on other properties
D)Acid rain created by coal plants in the United States falling in Canada
Q5) How can international institutions help implement international environmental agreements?
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Chapter 14: The Future of International Politics
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Q1) Why might the proliferation of nuclear weapons be a cause of greater peace rather than conflict?
Q2) Which of the following suggests that nuclear proliferation may not destabilize international relations?
A)The rising importance of nonstate actors
B)Conventional war between India and Pakistan in 1999
C)Rapid shifts in the distribution of power
D)U.S.invasion of Iraq in 2003
Q3) The U.S.preference for engagement with China has been driven by which of the following factors?
A)Absence of concern about human rights abuses by the Chinese government
B)Business pressure to gain access to China's market
C)Taiwanese pressure for the United States to maintain relations
D)Lack of domestic concern about the impact of the trade deficit
Q4) Deterrence works because:
A)it makes the costs of war far larger than the potential benefits.
B)international institutions enforce deterrence as a matter of policy.
C)second-strike capability is unnecessary.
D)it relies on the natural irrationality of leaders.
Q5) How should U.S.policy makers respond to growing Chinese power?
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Chapter 15: Introduction
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Q1) When constructing a theory of a complex phenomenon,it is necessary to:
A)include all the relevant factors.
B)make assumptions to simplify the processes being examined.
C)generate a complex mathematical model.
D)ensure that its predictions are always accurate.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of an interest?
A)A politician is elected president.
B)A politician collects campaign donations to be elected president.
C)A politician is put on the ballot in all the districts in which he or she is running.
D)A politician wants to be president.
Q3) What is cooperation?
A)An interaction that makes at least one actor better off without making the others worse off
B)An interaction in which actors must choose outcomes that make all the parties better off
C)Two states threatening conflict with each other over some policy dispute
D)A single state imposing its will upon another state
Q4) Describe the primary assumptions of realism.What would occur if those predictions were relaxed?
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Chapter 16: Foundations, War, and Peace
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Q1) Explain how there is a credibility problem in states representing their interests,capabilities,and resolve in international relations.
Q2) How can domestic interest groups influence the bargaining model of war?
A)Hawkish interest groups can increase the range of possible bargains for the state.
B)Dovish interest groups can increase the range of possible bargains for the state.
C)Bureaucracies can nullify the impact of the bargaining model.
D)Domestic interests do not calculate into the bargaining model of war.
Q3) Terrorist groups typically:
A)abstain from criminal activity.
B)are weaker than states.
C)have abundant resources.
D)are well armed.
Q4) Which of the following is an example of a war driven by a commitment problem?
A)Iraq invades Kuwait in order to obtain total control of its oil fields.
B)Germany invades France because it has changed its draft laws to increase its army's size.
C)The United States invades the Philippines because Spain's navy is weak.
D)The Soviets and Germans invade Poland and divide the territory.
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Chapter 17: International Political Economy, Transnational
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Q1) Which of the following is true of transnational advocacy networks (TANS)?
A)They are able to achieve results only when able to directly apply significant economic pressure to states.
B)They always serve purposes that are widely agreed to be normatively "good," such as protecting human rights or the environment.
C)They tend to have a clear hierarchical structure,with members taking clear direction from a strong central leadership.
D)They are characterized by back-and-forth reciprocal interaction in which members voluntarily share information and political strategies.
Q2) The Ricardo-Viner model differs from Stolper-Samuelson in that it:
A)offers no predictions about likely political divisions over trade policy.
B)accounts for the impact of foreign ownership of domestic production.
C)assumes that factors of production are not readily mobile.
D)suggests that the major actors in trade policy debates will be firms.
Q3) What role does information play in the populist backlash against globalization,and how does this affect the politics of economic policy?
Q4) Why do environmental agreements typically use soft law rather than hard law?
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