International Relations Theory
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International Relations Theory provides an in-depth exploration of the major theoretical frameworks and approaches that explain interactions among states and other actors on the global stage. The course examines classical theories such as realism and liberalism, alongside critical perspectives like constructivism, feminism, Marxism, and post-colonialism. Through a combination of historical context and contemporary case studies, students analyze the evolution of international systems, power dynamics, cooperation, conflict, and the impact of non-state actors. The course fosters critical thinking and analytical skills, enabling students to apply theoretical insights to current international events and global challenges.
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World Politics Interests Interactions Institutions 3rd Edition by Jeffry A. Frieden
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of bargaining?
A)A state is deciding whether to invade another state.
B)Two states are deciding how to divide up territory.
C)Two states are deciding how to cooperate on research.
D)A state unilaterally reduces its production of carbon dioxide.
E)A state takes it upon itself to eliminate the threat of piracy along major trade routes.
Answer: B
Q2) Bargaining is an interaction in which:
A)actors must choose outcomes that make one better off at the expense of another.
B)actors must choose outcomes that make all the parties better off.
C)actors are forced into situations that hurt everyone as equally as possible.
D)actors are forced into outcomes that help everyone.
E)one actor decides who should benefit and who should be harmed.
Answer: A
Q3) Is realism realistic? Explain why you think the framework is suitable for international relations,or,if you do not think it is,does liberalism or constructivism make more sense?
Answer: Answer will vary.
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Chapter 2: What Shaped Our World
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Q1) What did NOT increase under Pax Britannica?
A)Investment.
B)Immigration.
C)International trade.
D)The capacity for communication.
E)European wars.
Answer: E
Q2) The biggest crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War occurred in 2014 over which country?
A)Georgia.
B)Belarus.
C)Romania.
D)Ukraine.
E)Azerbaijan.
Answer: D
Q3) What were the major assumptions behind mercantilism? Why did mercantilism give way to globalization and free trade? Whose interests were most served by the change?
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Chapter 3: Understanding Interests, interactions, and Institutions
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Q1) Imposing some cost on others to reduce the value of the reversion outcome is known as:
A)coercion.
B)reversion.
C)linkage.
D)enforcement.
E)collaboration.
Answer: A
Q2) What is NOT a core element of sovereignty?
A)The sovereign possesses ultimate authority over the people and territory of a given realm.
B)External actors are excluded from exercising political authority over a sovereign people.
C)The sovereign does not share his or her authority of sovereignty with other actors.
D)Sovereign bodies must each have a military to defend themselves.
E)All sovereign units are formally equal or have the same legal status.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Why Are There Wars
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Q1) Which country has the United States NOT tried to convince to abandon its weapons of mass destruction (WMD)programs in recent years?
A)China.
B)Libya.
C)North Korea.
D)Iraq.
E)Iran.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following makes the problem of the indivisibility of goods worse?
A)The lack of complete information between the two involved states.
B)The difficulty in making a credible commitment about the contested item or issue.
C)The presence of balanced military forces.
D)A third state making an extended deterrence threat.
E)Too much transparency about each state's capabilities and resolve.
Answer: B
Q3) What makes a good indivisible,and how do indivisible goods affect the possibility of war?
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Chapter 5: Domestic Politics and War
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Q1) What is one reason why there would be a democratic peace?
A)People who want to be leaders of democracies are always more peaceful than leaders of autocracies.
B)Citizens of democracies are able to use a domestic institutions system to resolve their differences.
C)The positions of autocratic leaders are always more tenuous than those of democratic leaders,so autocratic leaders are less likely to go to war.
D)The citizens who bear the costs of war restrain leaders from beginning international conflicts.
E)International organizations have increased the number of opportunities for transparent negotiations between countries.
Q2) Why are diversionary incentives less common than once thought?
A)The overall domestic costs of a war can be extremely high.
B)Political leaders are too cynical to think that the public will believe them.
C)There are too many benefits to starting a war.
D)Other states are unlikely to become preoccupied with a war.
E)There is little advantage to switching trading partners.
Q3) Why might the democratic peace simply be a coincidence?
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Chapter 6: International Institutions and War
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Q1) All of the following statements about the United Nations Security Council are true EXCEPT the:
A)veto rule ensures that when the United Nations acts,it will have the support of the world's major powers.
B)size of the Security Council makes rapid responses more difficult.
C)size of the Security Council makes achieving consensus easier.
D)veto rule helps alleviate the collective action problem that results in lack of resources for United Nations actions.
E)veto rule results in more actions taken against weaker states than more powerful states.
Q2) Gondor invades the neighboring kingdom of Mordor.After many years of war the two sides call a cease-fire.They ask the United Nations (UN)to send in troops to help maintain the cease-fire.This is an example of:
A)an alliance.
B)peacemaking.
C)collective security.
D)genocide.
E)peace enforcement.
Q3) How does the presence of an alliance alter the bargaining model of war?
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Chapter 7: Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism
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Q1) The majority of civil wars end:
A)with one side winning the conflict.
B)in stalemate.
C)with the two sides reaching their own negotiated settlement.
D)with international intervention leading to a negotiated settlement.
E)with peacekeeping forces maintaining a settlement.
Q2) Which example demonstrates a nonstate actor facing a collective action problem?
A)The U.S.government trying to convince people to turn out and vote in an upcoming election.
B)A student group collecting signatures for a petition to stop environmental damage.
C)Al Qaeda releasing a new video on the Internet.
D)The Iraqi government collecting taxes from its citizens.
E)The United Nations releasing a new report on human rights abuses in the United States.
Q3) How do rebels overcome the collective action problem? What strategies are the most successful and why?
Q4) Can states effectively prevent or deter terrorism? Why or why not?
Q5) Will the United States ever be able to completely eliminate Al Qaeda? Elaborate on your reasoning.
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Chapter 8: International Trade
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Q1) Which of the following statements about trade policy is true?
A)No country in the world currently maintains trade barriers.
B)Few countries in the world maintain trade barriers.
C)A bare majority of countries in the world maintain some trade barriers.
D)A large majority of countries in the world maintain some trade barriers.
E)Every country in the world maintains some trade barriers.
Q2) How do international institutions contribute to trade liberalization by increasing transparency and providing information?
Q3) Which of these is most likely a poor,developing country?
A)A country that exports machinery for producing shoes.
B)A country that exports aircraft.
C)A country that exports copper.
D)A country that exports computer chips.
E)A country that exports automobiles and trucks.
Q4) Explain how trade bargaining problems can resemble a Prisoner's Dilemma.
Q5) What factors make it more likely that countries will have trade agreements? How do strategic interactions make it more or less likely that a country will erect a trade barrier?
Q6) How do international institutions affect whether the world trading system is more or less open?
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Chapter 9: International Financial Relations
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Q1) As an individual person,you are most likely to engage in international finance through:
A)portfolio investments.
B)direct investments.
C)multilateral lending certificates.
D)sovereign lending.
E)concessional finance.
Q2) Which of the following has been referred to as being as much a form of aid as of finance?
A)Sovereign lending.
B)Concessional finance.
C)Multinational corporation activity.
D)Foreign direct investment.
E)Portfolio investment.
Q3) What is often the effect of austerity measures in a country?
A)An immediate increase in imports by the population.
B)A recession or depression.
C)A surge in support for the government.
D)An increase in overall spending by the population.
E)An increase in international investment.
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Chapter 10: International Monetary Relations
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Q1) Which of these steps usually comes first in a currency crisis?
A)The government offers substantially higher interest rates.
B)The government devalues its currency.
C)Investors begin to sell a nation's currency.
D)The government faces some difficulty in maintaining a fixed exchange rate.
E)People lose faith in the government's commitment to keeping a stable exchange rate.
Q2) When and why do governments agree on a particular monetary system?
Q3) What is one interest all domestic actors share with regard to the national currency?
A)All domestic actors favor a currency that has depreciated.
B)All domestic actors prefer a currency that has appreciated.
C)All domestic actors prefer a floating exchange rate.
D)All domestic actors prefer a fixed exchange rate.
E)All domestic actors favor a currency policy that ensures stable prices.
Q4) Why do currency crises occur?
Q5) How are international monetary affairs "organized" in the absence of an international government?
Q6) Explain how an international monetary regime depends on interactions among the governments of the world's major economies.
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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 an example of an oligopoly?
A)Oil producers restrict global oil supply in order to prop up the price of oil.
B)The automobile industry in the 1970s was dominated by four or five large firms.
C)Taiwan spurs exports to developed countries by subsidizing certain popular industries.
D)Mexico attempts to become self-sufficient by erecting trade barriers and developing domestic industry.
E)Cotton farmers receive large amounts of subsidies from the U.S.government.
Q2) Which of the following would be a desired result of ISI?
A)Zambia reduced its dependence on imported oil.
B)Argentina quadrupled the number of cattle raised for export to rich countries.
C)India became mostly self-sufficient in manufacturing the products it needed.
D)Brazilian factories produced computers of lesser quality than those built in the United States.
E)Unemployed urban workers in Ghana moved to rural areas to take advantage of the coffee boom.
Q3) How and why have the economic effects of colonization differed between North America and Latin America?
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Chapter 12: International Law and Norms
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Q1) Procedural norms are primarily concerned with ________ a particular situation.
A)proper behavior by actors in
B)the institutions that matter for
C)which actors are considered to be legitimate actors for
D)how decisions are made about
E)how actions by actors are funded in
Q2) International agreements about ________ issues are most likely to have enforcement provisions.
A)economic and human rights
B)human rights and security
C)security and environmental
D)economic and security
E)human rights and environment
Q3) How do TANs help monitor compliance with international agreements?
Q4) Delegation in international law refers to:
A)how much power is given to the legislature of a country.
B)how much power is given to the president of a country.
C)whether further negotiation is to be handled by diplomats.
D)how much control is given to third parties.
E)how long the treaty is in effect.
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Chapter 13: Human Rights
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Q1) What does it mean that "although all rights are equal,some rights are more equal than others"?
Q2) In addition to the UDHR,the first international treaty to protect human rights covered:
A)freedom of movement.
B)freedom of speech.
C)asylum from persecution.
D)freedom from genocide.
E)access to health care.
Q3) Which set of domestic conditions would make the imposition of sanctions by a state favorable?
A)The sanctions are likely to be as expensive as they are effective.
B)The opposing party is opposed to the use of economic sanctions.
C)War is an alternative to economic sanctions.
D)There is an upcoming election,and a leader needs to boost his or her standing on international economic policy.
E)A domestic interest group strongly supports the imposition of sanctions on a particular state.
Q4) When are states most likely to take action on human rights abuses?
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Chapter 14: The Global Environment
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Q1) Which of the following greenhouse gases is primarily responsible for our current concerns about global warming?
A)Methane.
B)Water vapor.
C)Carbon dioxide.
D)Nitrous oxide.
E)Ozone.
Q2) What is the conflict between economic development and environmental well-being? Is there a compromise between these competing interests?
Q3) What is a framework convention?
A)The agenda for a series of meetings about an international problem.
B)Agreements that establish how treaties will be enforced.
C)Agreements that establish general principles to which all states can agree.
D)International meetings that involve the states with the most interest in an issue.
E)International meetings that involve nearly all states.
Q4) Why has cooperation in restoring the ozone been more successful than efforts to address climate change?
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Chapter 15: The Future of International Politics
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Q1) Why is it UNLIKELY that other regions will create institutions like the EU?
A)Other regions have not experienced major wars like the ones that prompted calls for an EU.
B)Countries in other regions associate institutions like the EU with colonization.
C)The countries of the EU have more cultural and political similarities than other regions.
D)Other regions do not want to duplicate the problems that the EU has experienced.
E)There is no longer any reason for regions to increase economic integration.
Q2) Which of the following countries possessed nuclear weapons but gave them up?
A)Brazil.
B)Ukraine.
C)France.
D)Israel.
E)Russia.
Q3) Why might the proliferation of nuclear weapons be a reason for greater peace rather than conflict?
Q4) How does the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty set standards of behavior and monitor compliance?
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Chapter 16: Foundations, war, and Peace
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Q1) "Hawkish" preferences differ from the rally-around-the-flag effect in that:
A)hawks tend not to care about reelection in democracies.
B)they make war less likely because they deter other states.
C)they cannot be reflected in a simple bargaining model.
D)other states are unaware of them.
E)they often result from the influence of narrow interests on the leader.
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) Which is NOT a way that institutions can encourage cooperation?
A)Exercising their power over states and forcing them to act cooperatively.
B)Creating norms and rules for other countries to follow.
C)Monitoring the behavior of states and reporting on their activities.
D)Making joint decision making cheaper between parties.
E)Acting as an arbiter in disputes.
Q4) What is anarchy? How is it important to our understanding of why wars occur?
Q5) How are war outcomes and leadership fate tied into democracy and autocracy?
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Chapter 17: International Political Economy, transnational
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Q1) 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.
Q2) If a country wants to increase its exports,what policies should it adopt? Consider trade protections,international institutions,and the other components of international political economy (finance,monetary policy)in your answer.
Q3) The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is best described as a(n):
A)international law.
B)international norm.
C)international organization.
D)transnational advocacy network.
E)public good.
Q4) How is the protection of human rights fundamentally a collective action problem? What is the collective benefit to protecting human rights? What are the costs?
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