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International Security explores the principal challenges and approaches to maintaining peace and stability in the global arena. The course examines the causes of conflict between states and non-state actors, the evolution of warfare, and methods of conflict resolution, with particular attention to issues such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, cybersecurity, global governance, and humanitarian intervention. Students analyze historical and contemporary case studies, investigate the roles of international institutions and alliances, and engage with debates over emerging security threats, enabling them to critically assess current and future security dilemmas in international relations.
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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) According to the text, the main schools of thought tend to seek explanations at which level of analysis?
A) System level
B) Analytical level
C) Individual level
D) State level
Answer: A
Q2) What is the essential question stemming from normative theory?
A) How does the world work?
B) What is the reality of international politics?
C) What goals should we pursue?
D) How can we describe a particular war?
Answer: C
Q3) Knowledge of history is important in studying contemporary politics because
A) history is replete with many lessons upon which we can draw.
B) history is a source of data that political scientists can use.
C) those who don't understand history are condemned to repeat it.
D) All of the above are true.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Historical Evolution of International Politics
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Q1) One of the significant changes Napoleon initiated in warfare was
A) mobilizing the entire population behind his war effort.
B) developing a small professional army.
C) conscripting citizens of defeated states into his army.
D) separating political and military power in government.
Answer: A
Q2) A company with business operations in more than one country is called a(n)
A) non-governmental organization.
B) international conglomerate.
C) multinational corporation.
D) global enterprise.
Answer: C
Q3) The spark that ignited World War I was
A) the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
B) Germany's invasion of Poland.
C) the British naval blockade in the Atlantic.
D) the storming of the French Bastille.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Theories of International Relations: Realism and Liberalism
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Q1) The one area where realists do accept the importance of moral actions is when
A) a state considers the interests of other states.
B) a state pursues its own national interests, but not the interests of other states.
C) states all pursue peaceful outcomes to conflicts.
D) states cooperate together in international organizations.
Answer: B
Q2) Liberal institutionalism suggests that a partial solution to the security dilemma would occur if
A) everyone stops building arms at the same time.
B) both sides continue to arm but at a slower rate.
C) one side evolves into a hegemonic power.
D) one side continues to build arms and the other stops.
Answer: A
Q3) According to hegemonic stability theory, stability results when
A) one great power dominates the others.
B) a balance results from sharing of power by many states.
C) a world government regulates all societies.
D) all countries agree to cooperate.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Theories of International Relations: Economic
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Feminism
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Q1) According to economic structuralism,
A) an upper class person will have more in common with an upper class person in another country than with a lower class person in their own country.
B) an upper class person will have more in common with a lower class person in their own country than with an upper class person in another country.
C) international movements of workers based on their common interests have occurred frequently throughout history.
D) a successful transnational alliance of labor unions has occurred as a result of the oppression of the lower classes around the world.
Q2) Which three Latin American countries recently called for "Twenty-first Century Socialism?"
A) Cuba, Mexico, and Chile
B) Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru
C) Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador
D) Argentina, Chile, and Peru
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) What is the institutional argument that supports the view that democracies do not go to war with each other?
A) It focuses on the way that democracies often find it easier to reach compromise with each other.
B) It asserts that democracies have a respect for each other that they do not have for nondemocratic states.
C) As democracies are very successful at fighting wars, democratic politicians are worried that they might lose a war with another democracy. This would make them vulnerable in upcoming elections; so they fear going to war with other democracies.
D) It states that the three branches of government in a democracy and the related checks and balances make it much less likely for two democracies to enter into war with each other.
Q2) Woodrow Wilson was in favor of the United States involvement in World War I because
A) he sought to create a balance against Russia.
B) he assumed the United States could expand its power over Europe.
C) it could help transform Europe into a region of peaceful democracies.
D) international trade was threatened by a strong Germany.
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Chapter 6: Bureaucracies, Groups, and Individuals in the Foreign Policy Process
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Q1) What was the ultimate goal of the Schlieffen Plan?
A) To disable Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba before they became operational
B) To defeat France while Russia was still mobilizing its forces
C) To cutoff funds for U.S. forces in Vietnam before significant new forces were mobilized
D) None of the above is true.
Q2) In considering our response to the Soviet emplacement of ballistic missiles in Cuba in 1962, why did U.S. military leaders argue for an early strike?
A) In order to teach the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, a lesson for being rash
B) To strike before Soviet naval forces arrived
C) In order to disable the missile sites before they became operational
D) To be able to catch the element of surprise from Soviet and Cuban forces
Q3) What event did Graham Allison use to demonstrate the bureaucratic politics model?
A) Bay of Pigs
B) Cuban Missile Crisis
C) War in Iraq
D) Korean war
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Chapter 7: International Organizations and Transnational Actors
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Q1) Which human rights NGO publicized the arrest of an outspoken critic of Gaddafi's rule in Libya and later provided much of the information relied upon by international media and governments?
A) Medicins Sans Frontiere
B) International Red Cross
C) Amnesty International
D) Oxfam
Q2) The principle that any issue that can be dealt with adequately at the national level should be left to that level is called
A) federalism.
B) conferederalism.
C) subsidiarity.
D) unicameralism.
Q3) The U.N. failed to intervene in 1994 in __________, in which over 800,000 people were killed, mostly with clubs and machetes.
A) Yugoslavia
B) Sudan
C) Rwanda
D) Zimbabwe
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Chapter 8: International Insecurity and the Causes of War and Peace
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Q1) Between 1945 and 1999, how many people died in civil wars worldwide?
A) About sixteen million
B) Approximately ten million
C) About five million
D) Less than one million
Q2) When leaders are under heightened psychological stress, research shows that the problems with misperception are
A) reduced.
B) mitigated.
C) weakest.
D) strongest.
Q3) In searching for a scientific explanation of war, the author concludes that A) we are closer than ever to identifying the fundamental causes of war.
B) scholars still are unable to definitively determine the causes of war.
C) wars can now be predicted accurately.
D) certain explanations have been determined to be more scientific than others.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 9: The Use of Force
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Q1) Which approach to explaining the causes of terrorism is most effective at defining the roots causes?
A) System-level approaches
B) Individual-level approaches
C) Societal-level approaches
D) None of these is more effective than the others.
Q2) What are some contemporary conditions among certain actors that facilitate the use of insurgency and guerilla warfare? Why do these conditions exist today?
Q3) Which of the following Asian countries does not have a nuclear weapon?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) China
D) Iran
Q4) After the United States and Russia, which power has the next largest nuclear weapon stockpile?
A) France
B) China
C) Germany
D) United Kingdom
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Chapter 10: Fundamentals of International Political Economy
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Q1) Trade and interest rates both influence A) trade deficits.
B) comparative advantage.
C) exchange rates.
D) subsidies.
Q2) What is the balance of trade? Why is it important? How does it affect domestic politics?
Q3) States may manipulate the price of their currency downward in order to
A) increase their trade deficit.
B) encourage emigration.
C) boost their trade surplus.
D) import more foreign goods.
Q4) China has accumulated approximately how many U.S. dollars in its foreign currency reserves?
A) 400 million
B) 40 billion
C) 400 billion
D) 4 trillion
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Q5) Discuss the various types of protectionist measures. Who ultimately benefits from these measures and who suffers the cost?
Chapter 11: The Globalization of Trade and Finance
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Q1) The objectives of the Bretton Woods system were to
A) fight communism and enrich the United States.
B) promote free trade and increase global wealth.
C) rebuild Europe and democratize the developing world.
D) ensure continued U.S. presence in Asia and expand global capitalism.
Q2) The one global group that does not play a significant role in trade politics is
A) manufacturers.
B) consumers.
C) workers.
D) environmentalists.
Q3) One of the main criticisms of globalization is that it
A) makes the powerful more powerful and wealthy.
B) actually makes everyone less well off.
C) outsources jobs from developing to developed countries.
D) prevents poorer countries from expanding their economies.
Q4) Which U.S. President took the United States off the gold standard?
A) Nixon
B) Ford
C) Carter
D) Eisenhower
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Chapter 12: The Problem of Global Inequality
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Q1) The Gender Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme, measures the economic equality of men and women. Which of the following countries is considered as low-ranking on this index?
A) Australia
B) Norway
C) Niger
D) United States
Q2) Which of the following is not a part of the World Bank structure?
A) The International Monetary Fund
B) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
C) The International Development Association
D) The International Finance Corporation
Q3) What have been some of the historical strategies used by states, e.g., the United States and Germany, in order to overcome late development? How do they compare with either the developmental state or export-led approaches?
Q4) What are some difficulties in defining and measuring poverty?
Q5) 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.
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Chapter 13: International Law, Norms, and Human Rights
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Q1) ___________ represent an intermediate category of agreements that are not formal laws but are significant nonetheless in shaping state behavior. Often, they remain unwritten and are not represented by formal organizations.
A) Norms
B) International law
C) International regimes
D) Treaties
Q2) The most pressing threats to international security tend to be brought to the ________.
A) World Trade Organization.
B) ICJ.
C) Security Council.
D) None of the above.
Q3) Discuss the two sides on the legality of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Which side makes the most convincing argument?
Q4) Discuss the features of the International Criminal Court. What are its distinctive features? What are its primary challenges?
Q5) What are the various sources of international law?
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Chapter 14: The Global Environment and International Politics
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Q1) Which of the following accidents was one of the first cases to bring environmental issues together with the questions of poverty and development?
A) The Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in the late 1900s in Ukraine
B) The Bhopal chemical leak in India in the early 1980s
C) The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan
D) The Aswan Dam collapse in Egypt in the mid-1950s
Q2) Beyond collective action problems, which of the following is not an obstacle that tends to arise on many international environmental issues?
A) Struggle for influence or control among intergovernmental organizations
B) Complexity
C) Competing economic priorities
D) Conflict with free trade agreements
Q3) Explore the connection between resource depletion and economic development. Is it fair to ask developing countries to constrain their development in order to create a more sustainable environment? Why or why not?
Q4) Discuss some of the main barriers to environmental cooperation among countries? What confounds a permanent resolution of the climate change problem the world faces?
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Chapter 15: Conclusion: Power and Purpose in a Changing World
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Q1) Discuss the two kinds of gaps in wealth. How have the trends shifted and what are the consequences? Use examples of countries bridging these gaps in wealth.
Q2) The concept that describes states that will almost certainly not go to war with one another is called
A) regions of capitalist countries.
B) economic integrated countries of Europe.
C) the zone of peace.
D) free trade regions of the world.
Q3) What are some of the ways in which power and purpose are changing?
Q4) The United States retains a dominant __________ position in the scheme of international politics.
A) moral
B) economic
C) military
D) judiciary
Q5) How has terrorism changed the way we deal with international politics?
Q6) Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that globalization is inevitable? Why or why not?
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