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Chapter 5: Domestic Politics and War
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Q1) How can the level of influence an interest group has had in making a foreign policy decision be determined?
A)Usually policies only happen for one reason,so if it benefits a group then it likely happened because of its influence.
B)One can assume that,since a policy decision benefited a group,the decision must have been made in order to benefit that group.
C)In democracies,interest groups have to make their campaign contributions public,so one can link the amount of money with policy decisions that benefit a group.
D)Measuring the influence of an interest group is difficult,because usually one cannot directly observe the connection between a group and the ultimate decision.
E)Scholars find out how much influence an interest group has had when official records are made public long after the decision has been made.
Q2) Explain how the democratic peace theory encompasses institutions,interactions,and interests.
Q3) How are leaders' interests and options different in democratic and nondemocratic countries?
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Chapter 6: International Institutions and War
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Q1) Why did the United Nations Security Council authorize its response to the Korean War?
A)All permanent members voted to repel the reprehensible attack.
B)The Soviet Union condemned the attack and took the lead in proposing the resolution.
C)The United States and the Soviet Union cooperated in the wake of the end of the Cold War to end aggressive actions by China.
D)The Soviet Union had been boycotting the Security Council meetings and missed the vote.
E)The Security Council members unanimously agreed that the attack violated international law and had to be condemned.
Q2) In what country did NATO intervene during 2011?
A)Iraq.
B)Syria.
C)Lebanon.
D)Libya.
E)Bosnia.
Q3) What kinds of credibility and commitment problems do states have when they join alliances?
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Chapter 7: Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism
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Q1) How do rebels fight civil wars? What methods are available for states to fight back against rebel groups in a civil war? Which do you believe to be the most likely to succeed and why?
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a civil war?
A)The United States fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
B)Spain being attacked by Al Qaeda in Madrid.
C)Iraqi Security Forces fighting against Shia Islamists in southeastern Iraq.
D)A border skirmish between Colombia and Venezuela.
E)Great Britain colonizing the Falkland Islands.
Q3) How are nonstate actors unlike state actors?
A)Nonstate actors lack identifiable interests.
B)Conflict with nonstate actors tends to be "cheap" for the state.
C)Institutions cannot be used to resolve the grievances between two states.
D)Nonstate actors deal with unique concerns about mobilizing their members.
E)Nonstate actors cannot be fruitfully thought of in the context of a bargaining model.
Q4) In what ways are rebels and terrorists similar? In what ways are they different?
Q5) When is terrorism most likely to be adopted by a group as a strategy? Why would a group adopt terrorism instead of insurgency? When would a group conduct both?
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Chapter 8: International Trade
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Q1) Which of the following countries is most likely to follow a liberal trade policy?
A)A country led by a dictator who suppresses national political parties.
B)A country led by a dictator who allows limited elections to take place.
C)A country led by a small group of military officers.
D)A democratic country with strong national political parties and a powerful executive.
E)A democratic country with weak political parties and a weak national executive.
Q2) The trade protection that the United States steel industry receives has which of the following effects?
A)It raises the cost of steel for American consumers.
B)It lowers the profits of American steel companies.
C)It makes American steelworkers' salaries unpredictable.
D)It leads to less support from the steel industry for the government.
E)It increases the sales of foreign steel products in the United States.
Q3) Explain how interests,institutions,and interactions affect the likelihood of trade liberalization or trade restriction in domestic politics.
Q4) Explain how trade bargaining problems can resemble a Prisoner's Dilemma.
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Chapter 9: International Financial Relations
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a portfolio investment?
A)A pension fund purchases the Mexican telephone company.
B)Campbell's soup company purchases Godiva Chocolates.
C)Hershey's,the candy maker,relocates its factories to Mexico and El Salvador.
D)Wal-Mart purchases a majority of shares of a Thai clothing manufacturer.
E)A U.S.bank makes a loan to a Mexican shoe manufacturer.
Q2) What is concessional finance?
A)When countries attract multinational corporations by giving them tax breaks for investing in the country.
B)When money is lent to developing countries at below-market interest rates.
C)When countries allow multinational corporations to violate labor and environmental laws.
D)When developing countries encourage multinational corporations to develop their natural resources.
E)When lenders get special consideration from the International Monetary Fund during debt crises.
Q3) How well does the Heckscher-Ohlin approach explain international immigration?
Q4) Explain how the International Monetary Fund contributes to a stable international financial system.
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Chapter 11: Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a reason that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was more successful at affecting the price of oil than other commodity cartels?
A)There are a small number of countries with significant oil reserves.
B)Oil is not a commodity that spoils,so there is no need to sell it off quickly.
C)Many oil-producing countries have cultural ties to one another.
D)Members were able to strictly enforce compliance with the organization's policies.
E)There are few alternative sources of energy to substitute for oil.
Q2) Describe export-oriented industrialization (EOI)and explain the effect of EOI policies.
Q3) 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)Central America.
D)Sub-Saharan Africa.
E)Eastern Europe.
Q4) How do the interests of rich and poor countries converge and conflict?
Q5) How has geography affected the economic development of poor countries?
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Chapter 12: International Law and Norms
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Q1) International norms are what countries:
A)want other countries to do for them.
B)need other countries to do for them.
C)believe are appropriate for other countries to do.
D)demand that other countries do,often with the use of force.
E)threaten other countries not to do.
Q2) What is NOT a factor in determining the difference between hard and soft law?
A)Obligation.
B)Precision.
C)Delegation.
D)Enforcement.
E)Relative power.
Q3) Why do some international laws have enforcement mechanisms while others do not? What factors make a law more or less likely to have enforcement mechanisms?
Q4) International norms:
A)have the status of law.
B)do not require enforcement.
C)tend to be singular rules.
D)are ignored by international institutions.
E)often replace international laws.
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Chapter 13: Human Rights
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a prisoner of conscience?
A)An individual who lives in a state despite disagreeing with the government.
B)An international organization that cannot get legal status within a particular country.
C)An individual imprisoned for his or her nonviolent political beliefs.
D)An individual imprisoned for taking up arms against the government.
E)A domestic,political organization that has had its financial accounts frozen by a state.
Q2) Which of the following would most clearly be an example of Amnesty International's core mission?
A)Launching a campaign to free a Cuban citizen imprisoned for criticizing the government.
B)Calling for the release of a Japanese citizen accused of murdering his neighbor.
C)Lobbying for a new law in Pakistan guaranteeing four months maternity leave.
D)Attempting to free a woman convicted of committing a terrorist act in France.
E)Revealing the use of child workers in Bangladesh.
Q3) Explain why states commit human rights abuses against their own citizens,even though their actions violate international human rights law.
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Chapter 14: The Global Environment
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Q1) International environmental institutions can affect cooperation on environmental issues in all of the following ways EXCEPT international institutions:
A)verify whether states are complying with international environmental standards.
B)reduce decision-making costs for states negotiating agreements about international environmental issues.
C)assist states in resolving disputes that they may have about environmental issues.
D)establish clear standards of behavior for states with which they can be expected to comply.
E)force states to fulfill their treaty obligations through economic sanctions.
Q2) What is the Lima Accord? Why is it significant in the history of global environmental agreements? Do you believe it will be effective? Why or why not?
Q3) Explain how transnational advocacy networks help implement international environmental agreements.
Q4) Why has the United States refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? What does this tell us about the nature and challenges of international bargaining on environmental issues?
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Chapter 15: The Future of International Politics
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Q1) Why didn't the rise in power of the United States lead to war?
Q2) Which of the following is the superior strategy for preventing terrorists from obtaining WMD?
A)The United States declares that it will retaliate massively against any terrorists that use WMD.
B)The United States declares that it will attack any terrorist organization that obtains WMD,even if the weapons are not used.
C)The European Union (EU)negotiates with terrorist organizations to convince them the costs of using WMD are higher than the gains they will obtain.
D)The International Atomic Energy Agency promotes the norm of nonproliferation WMD. E)The International Atomic Energy Agency helps countries make their nuclear facilities more secure.
Q3) Is second-strike capability necessary for deterrence? If only first-strike capability existed in the world,would we see more use of nuclear weapons?
Q4) Why is it more difficult to deter terrorist organizations with nuclear weapons than countries with nuclear weapons?
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Chapter 16: Foundations, war, and Peace
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Q1) What concept does NOT have direct implications for the bargaining model of war?
A)Democratic peace.
B)Audience costs.
C)Resolve.
D)Incomplete information.
E)Indivisible goods.
Q2) When one country has respect for a neighboring country's sovereignty,it will:
A)invade the neighboring country to protect its citizens from harm.
B)attack the neighboring country that is blocking its access to waterways.
C)support a rival heir to the neighboring country's throne.
D)attempt to influence which treaties the neighboring country signs.
E)accept that the neighboring country has a different official religion.
Q3) The Soviet Union and the United States never fought a direct war with each other.What institutions,practices,and events prevented the Cold War from becoming hot?
Q4) Using the bargaining model of war,show how the bargaining range would change if a new technology is discovered that reduces the cost of war for both sides.Is war now more or less likely?
Q5) How does the bargaining model apply to civil war and terrorism?
Q6) What is anarchy? How is it important to our understanding of why wars occur?
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Politics, and Looking Ahead
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Q1) International monetary policy creates Prisoner Dilemma-like scenarios because:
A)there are incentives to devalue a currency,whether or not other countries devalue their currencies.
B)there are incentives to appreciate a currency,whether or not other countries appreciate their currencies.
C)the only time a country wants to devalue its currency is when other countries appreciate their currencies.
D)the only time a country wants to appreciate its currency is when other countries devalue their currencies.
E)the only time a country wants to appreciate its currency is when other countries appreciate their currencies.
Q2) The Heckscher-Ohlin model provides for the mobility of several factors in the international system.What kind of migration is NOT expected from the model?
A)International organizations migration.
B)Labor immigration.
C)Capital migration.
D)Labor emigration.
E)Multinational corporation migration.
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