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Diplomacy and Statecraft explores the principles, practices, and evolving nature of how states interact in the international system. The course examines the tools, strategies, and institutions that states use to pursue their interests, manage conflicts, and foster cooperation in an increasingly complex world. Students analyze key concepts such as negotiation, deterrence, alliance-building, and the role of international law, while also considering historical and contemporary case studies. Emphasis is placed on understanding both traditional forms of diplomacy and the emerging challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, technological change, and non-state actors.
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International Politics Power and Purpose in Global Affairs 3rd Edition by Paul D'Anieri
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems and Questions in International Politics
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Q1) The concept that implies the goals of political action is A) purpose.
B) power.
C) statecraft.
D) cooperation.
Answer: A
Q2) The European Union now has
A) 20 members.
B) 22 members
C) 23 members
D) 27 members
Answer: D
Q3) According to the author, international politics has been defined by all except A) ambiguity.
B) surprise.
C) predictability.
D) debate.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Historical Evolution of International Politics
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Q1) Avoiding punishing either Japan for invading Manchuria or Italy's invasion of Ethiopia demonstrated the weakness of which policy?
A) Collective security
B) Isolationism
C) Nuclear deterrence
D) Peacekeeping
Answer: A
Q2) Fascism as developed in Italy and Germany
A) supported the strengthening of the nation as the major political goal.
B) viewed the nation as a single organism.
C) justified political authoritarianism and economic centralization.
D) All of the above are true.
Answer: D
Q3) The nineteenth century is known for the rise of what two related phenomena?
A) War and capitalism
B) Nationalism and imperialism
C) Nationalism and capitalism
D) Imperialism and World War I
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Theories of International Relations: Realism and Liberalism
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Q1) The security dilemma refers to
A) the tendency for one state's efforts to obtain security to cause insecurity in others.
B) the hesitation to go to war against another country.
C) efforts of states to stake their survival on agreements with other states.
D) the willingness of states to always cooperate with each other.
Answer: A
Q2) Hegemons decline for several reasons, including all of the following except A) costs of empire.
B) internal decay.
C) economic challenge from other countries.
D) high taxes.
Answer: D
Q3) Should Iran develop a nuclear weapon, which states in the region would apparently also be tempted to develop nuclear weapons in response?
A) Israel
B) Syria
C) Iraq
D) Saudi Arabia
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Theories of International Relations: Economic
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Feminism
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Q1) According to economic structuralists, the Stamp Act and the Navigation Acts were examples of
A) trade provisions aimed at giving firms in the colonizing country an advantage over those in the colony.
B) investment policies that gave an advantage to businesses in the colonial territories.
C) burdensome economic policies that cost England's treasury dearly and eventually encouraged them to free the American colonies.
D) important trade subsidies that allowed the American colonies' enterprises to grow rapidly.
Q2) The definition of power as the ability of two or more actors to work together to achieve what they cannot achieve alone is supported by which theory?
A) Liberalism
B) Institutionalism
C) Feminism
D) Constructivism
Q3) How would each of the major theories discussed in this chapter explain the existence of inequality in society?
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Chapter 5: The State, Society, and Foreign Policy
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Q1) The "simple" model of democratic peace theory argues that A) countries with large armies are more likely to engage in war.
B) unequal distribution of the world's resources is a major factor in conflict.
C) democracies, in general, are more peaceful than autocracies.
D) international organizations must play a smaller role in addressing conflict.
Q2) In Michael Doyle's study of war and democracy, he found that
A) the only war fought between liberal democracies was World War I.
B) from 1815 to 1980, there were no wars fought between liberal democracies.
C) from 1815 to 1980, there were only three wars fought between liberal democracies.
D) democracies frequently start wars with other democracies.
Q3) Describing immigration in terms of either law breaking or as an economic benefit to society is considered
A) the mainstream effect.
B) framing the issue.
C) journalistic integrity.
D) public opinion bias.
Q4) Examine how various media outlets may influence foreign policy and public opinion. Provide examples to support your arguments.
Q5) What are the two most important objections to the subject of national interest?
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Chapter 6: Bureaucracies, Groups, and Individuals in the Foreign Policy Process
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Q1) Which of the following did not imperil the Schlieffen Plan?
A) The Allied forces blew up German bridges that crossed into Belgium and France.
B) Belgian troops delayed German forces longer than expected.
C) Allied forces were reinforced surprisingly quickly by British forces.
D) The Russian army was able to mount an attack on the eastern front quicker than expected.
Q2) Foreign policy studies generally focus on the executive branch of the government for all of the following reasons except
A) the only legitimate foreign policy authority is the executive.
B) foreign policy requires a single voice abroad.
C) many constitutions specify the executive as the head of government.
D) most foreign policy negotiations are headed by the head of state.
Q3) How do the lessons of history influence decision making?
A) The lessons of history always lead to bad decisions.
B) Decision makers carefully review history to discover the relevant lessons.
C) Decision makers are influenced by certain events rather than by a broad understanding of history.
D) History does not influence decision making.
Q4) What is cognitive dissonance? What problems can it cause in decision making?
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Chapter 7: International Organizations and Transnational Actors
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Q1) A major objective of the United Nations is to
A) solve global environmental problems.
B) protect the world's children.
C) promote peace and development.
D) solve the crisis in the Middle East.
Q2) While the size of the state sphere has stayed constant or diminished, the size of the nonstate sphere has increased dramatically. This has caused some to argue that
A) states are no longer interested in power.
B) the Westphalian state system may be ending.
C) military power is no longer important.
D) states are choosing to give up their power to international organizations.
Q3) All of the following international organizations are transnational advocacy networks except
A) Human Rights Watch.
B) Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
C) Greenpeace.
D) Doctors Without Borders.
Q4) What are the primary objectives of the reforms of the United Nations? Which reforms are more likely to succeed?
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Chapter 8: International Insecurity and the Causes of War and Peace
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Q1) One important feature of a peacekeeping force is that they are
A) typically heavily armed.
B) given the authority to attack one or both of the warring parties.
C) usually lightly armed.
D) permitted to take sides in the conflict.
Q2) Which of the following is not a major ethnic or religious community in Iraq?
A) Sunnis
B) Kurds
C) Berbers
D) Shiites
Q3) How are the causes of civil wars and contentious politics different from the causes of interstate warfare? Use examples discussed in the text to highlight your differences.
Q4) When a state is determining what course of action has the highest expected utility, that judgment is
A) objective.
B) subjective.
C) optimistic.
D) pessimistic.
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Chapter 9: The Use of Force
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Q1) Which concept fits this statement: "Safety from the threat of physical destruction"?
A) Balance of power
B) Deterrence
C) Traditional security
D) Hegemonic stability
Q2) Chemical and biological weapons may become an acceptable choice by some countries for all of the following reasons except A) ease of development.
B) ability to produce in normal industrial facilities.
C) less expensive to produce compared to nuclear weapons.
D) capability of creating more fear than nuclear weapons.
Q3) In a war-fighting situation, winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians refers to
A) providing material benefits to the people under attack.
B) an increase in foreign aid to areas of conflict.
C) obtaining the support of the noncombatants so that they won't support the insurgents.
D) the use of low-tech munitions in order to limit collateral damage.
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Chapter 10: Fundamentals of International Political Economy
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Q1) When the dollar decreases in value against the euro, one result is that the price of goods from Europe
A) will be less expensive for American consumers.
B) will not change much.
C) will be more expensive for American consumers.
D) will be more expensive for some imports and less for others.
Q2) For realists, the problem of relative gains refers to the situation in which
A) even if both sides gain, the side that gains more may increase its power over the side that gains less.
B) both sides may gain, which would lead to a mutual increase in state power.
C) both sides are negatively affected by trade and in a position to lose power.
D) the efficiency of trade benefits becomes more important than the distribution of benefits.
Q3) Economic structuralism and liberalism agree that
A) free markets, if left to themselves, reduce economic inequalities.
B) international trade is a zero-sum game.
C) substate actors, such as corporations and economic classes, are the important actors.
D) distributive issues related to trade are a major issue.
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Q4) Why do feminists argue that the costs of globalization are unevenly distributed?
Chapter 11: The Globalization of Trade and Finance
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Q1) Since its economy began to take off in the early 1980s, China has lifted approximately how many people out of poverty, largely through participation in the global economy?
A) 60 million
B) 140 million
C) 350 million
D) 600 million
Q2) What percentage of American university students studied abroad during 2009-2010?
A) 35 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 1 percent
Q3) The fundamental linkage between debt crises and monetary crises that can shift a manageable downturn into an unmanageable panic is referred to as a
A) lender of last resort.
B) crisis of confidence.
C) monetary stagnation.
D) currency devaluation.
Q4) What are the competing costs and benefits of globalization?
Q5) Why does the text argue that states have lost control over globalization?
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Chapter 12: The Problem of Global Inequality
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Q1) Liberals argue that the success of the Asian Tigers is evidence that the best approach to development is
A) export led growth.
B) import substitution.
C) protectionism.
D) based on the free market.
Q2) Why do some criticize the voting structure in the World Bank?
A) They believe that the Bank remains a semicolonial organization in which the wealthy countries decide what will happen to the poor ones.
B) They believe that it gives the United States too much control.
C) They believe that it leads to increased capitalism.
D) They believe that it actually prevents development.
Q3) This chapter discusses the way that the United States and Europe were relatively weak economically until around the year 1900. What are some of the explanations for this reversal?
Q4) What is bilateral aid? Discuss some of the many problems often associated with such aid, particularly from the point of view of the receiving country. Provide examples where possible.
Q5) Why did import substitution fail as a strategy in the twentieth century?
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Chapter 13: International Law, Norms, and Human Rights
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Q1) The World Trade Organization (WTO) is similar to the previous organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), but also quite different. What are the main similarities and differences between these two organizations? What are the distinct challenges faced by the WTO?
Q2) According to many scholars, the central problem with international law is A) the unequal power among nations.
B) the arbitrary decisions made by the International Court of Justice.
C) the greater weight of domestic versus international law.
D) enforcement of legal decisions and treaties.
Q3) The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over all of the following crimes except A) genocide.
B) economic discrimination.
C) crimes against humanity.
D) war crimes.
Q4) Norms can take many forms, including all of the following except A) relative power between states.
B) ethical principles about how actors should behave.
C) mutual expectations about how actors will behave.
D) social identities indicating which actors are legitimate.
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Chapter 14: The Global Environment and International Politics
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Q1) The most recent meeting to negotiate a new plan to combat global warming and climate change took place in late 2011 in
A) Kyoto, Japan.
B) Durban, South Africa.
C) New York, New York.
D) Copenhagen, Denmark.
Q2) Which of the following was not a result or outcome from the Durban meeting in late 2011?
A) All the important questions relating to resolving climate change and global warming were deferred until the future.
B) The countries present agreed to set binding commitments by 2015 on greenhouse gas emissions.
C) The negotiation partners agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.
D) China agreed to limit greenhouse gases, but the United States balked at having to do so.
Q3) Discuss the efforts by which national governments attempt to work together to solve global environmental problems. What are some challenges working against this cooperation and what are the ways in which they have successfully cooperated?
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Chapter 15: Conclusion: Power and Purpose in a Changing World
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Q1) The Arab Spring
A) reinstated authoritarian government in Egypt.
B) instituted democracy fully to Tunisia.
C) brought democracy to the Arab world.
D) None of the above is true.
Q2) Most assume that Chinese hegemony will be
A) characterized by cooperation.
B) better for the third world.
C) helpful in the creation of agreements aimed at the protection of the environment.
D) much less benevolent.
Q3) What is the primary reason that some use to argue the importance of who the hegemon is?
A) The purpose to which power is used is important.
B) Some hegemons are more effective than others.
C) Not all hegemons want to cooperate with everyone.
D) Some hegemons are not capitalist countries.
Q4) How has terrorism changed the way we deal with international politics?
Q5) Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that globalization is inevitable? Why or why not?
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