World Politics
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World Politics examines the complex interactions among nations, international organizations, and other global actors in shaping political, economic, and social outcomes across the world. The course explores key theories and concepts in international relations, such as power dynamics, diplomacy, conflict, cooperation, and globalization. Students analyze major issues including war and peace, human rights, economic development, environmental challenges, and the impact of emerging global trends. Through a combination of case studies, current events, and theoretical frameworks, the course equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the forces that influence global affairs and the implications for national and international policy-making.
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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) 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.
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) About half of the world's population,around 3 billion people:
A)live in countries under threat of nuclear destruction.
B)have been victims of terrorist attacks.
C)suffer from human rights abuses.
D)live in environmentally dangerous areas.
E)live on less than $2 a day.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: What Shaped Our World
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Q1) The Peace of Westphalia in 1648:
A)established British hegemony.
B)marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
C)marked the beginning of the modern system of states.
D)promoted the Industrial Revolution.
E)created equitable terms of trade.
Answer: C
Q2) 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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Q3) Which of the following would be an example of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union?
A)The Soviet Union creates the Warsaw Pact.
B)The Soviet Union puts missiles in Cuba.
C)The Soviet Union blocks access to Berlin.
D)The United States agrees to limit its military weapons.
E)The United States sends troops to Vietnam.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Understanding Interests, interactions, and Institutions
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Q1) All of the following are examples of solutions to coordination problems EXCEPT:
A)drivers in the United Kingdom drive on the left side of the road.
B)international airline pilots all speak English to make international communication easier.
C)peacekeepers separate two armies in a civil war to stop the conflict.
D)all firms producing compact discs use a single compatible format.
E)countries allocate international flight paths to avoid midair collisions.
Answer: C
Q2) Why did warfare play such an important role in the emergence of sovereign states?
A)Constant military struggle left voters wanting a more powerful central state.
B)The United Nations Security Council favors sovereign states to help prevent the outbreak of war.
C)The need for military success and protection forced smaller or less powerful states to merge.
D)Smaller,more agile states were better able to take advantage of technological advances in warfare.
E)Peace treaties often declared the boundaries of new states to help prevent future wars.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Why Are There Wars
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Q1) During the Cuban missile crisis,the United States put nuclear missile crews on alert and took other advanced steps to prepare for war.This is an example of what?
A)Paying for power.
B)Tying hands.
C)Brinksmanship.
D)Extended deterrence.
E)Avoidance.
Answer: C
Q2) How do commitment problems affect the likelihood that war will occur?
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Q3) Which of the following is an example of an indivisible good?
A)Whether a state has nuclear weapons.
B)Control of a mountain range.
C)Access to an oil field on the border of two states.
D)Clean drinking water.
E)Revenue from selling goods and services.
Answer: A
Q4) Explain the risks and benefits of engaging in brinkmanship. Answer: Answer will vary.
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Chapter 5: Domestic Politics and War
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Q1) All of the following are examples of when the military can be an important domestic actor EXCEPT when:
A)a group of military officers took direct control of the Brazilian government from 1964 to 1985.
B)a single general was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.
C)the Argentine military junta was forced from office by popular rebellions in 1983.
D)the civilian president of Ecuador was forced from office with support from the military in 2000.
E)the Mexican government used the military to shoot student protesters in 1968.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of the rally-round-the-flag effect?
A)A leader begins a war to show how patriotic he or she is.
B)A leader begins a war to reclaim territory that has historically belonged to his or her country.
C)The citizens of a country pressure the government to go to war,even when its leaders are reluctant to do so.
D)The citizens of a country unite to support their country when a dramatic international event occurs.
E)The citizens of a country unite to reduce immigration and foreign involvement.
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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) How did the alliance system contribute to the beginning of World War I?
Q3) How did alliances contribute to the "Long Peace" of the twentieth century?
Q4) When are alliances most likely to be successful?
A)When democratic states create alliances.
B)When authoritarian states create alliances.
C)When a large number of states join the alliance.
D)When powerful states are interested in the outcome of a dispute.
E)When states are able to credibly signal their strong mutual interests.
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Chapter 7: Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism
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Q1) What characteristics of a state make civil war more likely and why?
Q2) What is an alternative to the contagion hypothesis for why civil wars tend to cluster regionally?
A)A rebellion in one country might inspire like-minded groups in neighboring states to engage in civil war.
B)Armed groups operating in one country might cross into a neighboring state and engage in violence there.
C)States finance domestic oppositions in their neighbors' territories.
D)Poor countries are likely to be located in similar regions of the world.
E)Civil wars cause refugees to spread across state boundaries and create conditions that facilitate the emergence of new civil wars.
Q3) Airport security measures and armed guards at national monuments are examples of what tactic to combat terrorism?
A)Negotiation and compromise.
B)Criminalization.
C)Ignoring terrorists.
D)Defensive measures.
E)Preemption.
Q4) Why do some grievances lead to civil war and others do not?
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Chapter 8: International Trade
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to help countries overcome trade problems with each other?
A)When a large number of countries participate in trade negotiations so they can gain broader consensus.
B)When countries have limited interactions over time and therefore little chance for disputes.
C)When countries are able to restrict the information that other countries have about their products.
D)When the countries have concluded a limited war fought with each other to resolve a dispute over trade routes.
E)When countries can negotiate concessions in different industries to achieve an agreement.
Q2) Which of the following is most likely to benefit from protectionism?
A)Consumers of all goods,because they are protected from inferior products.
B)Consumers of imported products.
C)Domestic producers of goods that are also imported from foreign countries.
D)Domestic producers of goods that are exported to other countries.
E)Foreign producers of goods that are exported to other countries.
Q3) How does the WTO both help and hurt the world's poor?
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Chapter 9: International Financial Relations
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Q1) Which of the following is the most likely to be a developing country?
A)A country with little land.
B)A country with little unskilled labor.
C)A country with lots of skilled labor.
D)A country with high amounts of capital.
E)A country with low amounts of capital.
Q2) How does incomplete information complicate bargaining over international lending and borrowing?
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a reason that international finance is considered beneficial?
A)Borrowers of money can get reasonable loans with which they can invest and develop.
B)Investors in capital-rich countries can get higher returns on their money.
C)Capital-scarce countries have access to investment money from wealthier countries.
D)Capital-scarce countries can use these loans to decrease their international debts.
E)International finance allows money to flow to the areas where it can have the most impact.
Q4) If international finance is beneficial,why is it controversial?
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Chapter 10: International Monetary Relations
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Q1) A currency that has depreciated is one that:
A)has been devalued.
B)has been abandoned in favor of adopting a stronger currency.
C)has lost the loyalty of a country's citizens.
D)is worth more than it was previously when compared to other currencies.
E)has been tied to the price of gold.
Q2) How are international monetary affairs "organized" in the absence of an international government?
Q3) Which of the following are LEAST likely to want to switch to a floating exchange rate?
A)Farmers growing rice in California.
B)Construction workers building homes in South Carolina.
C)Indian companies manufacturing semiconductors for U.S.companies.
D)New York restaurants serving French wine.
E)British bankers lending money to Latin America.
Q4) Explain how an international monetary regime depends on interactions among the governments of the world's major economies.
Q5) Why would a country want a currency to float? Why might it instead prefer it to be fixed in value with a nearby nation's currency?
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Chapter 11: Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Q1) How do the interests of rich and poor countries converge and conflict?
Q2) Why did Argentine economist Raúl Prebisch think trade worked against the interests of less developed countries (LDCs)?
A)His research found that trade inevitably hurt the economies of all countries,whether developing or developed.
B)His research found that the experience of colonialism permanently damaged the chances of industrialization for LDCs.
C)His research found that international organizations were deliberately creating trade agreements that hurt LDCs' interests.
D)His research found that,over time,the price of LDCs' manufactured goods decreased relative to the price of developed countries' goods.
E)His research found that,over time,the price of LDCs' primary exports decreased relative to the price of developed countries' manufactured exports.
Q3) Why did governments in less developed countries implement policies that benefited the urban elite,even when these policies hurt the agricultural sector?
Q4) How do domestic interests contribute to some countries remaining poor?
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Chapter 12: International Law and Norms
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Q1) What is an example of a norm entrepreneur?
A)A president of France declaring that France will lower tariffs on all agricultural products from former colonies.
B)The UN Security Council declaring that Iraq has to abandon all programs to build weapons of mass destruction.
C)An organization holding a conference in which actors discuss how to stop civil wars in less developed countries.
D)India and China agreeing to stop all conflict along their borders.
E)The United States declaring an international war against terrorism.
Q2) Why would a state want a TAN to monitor another state's compliance instead of doing the monitoring itself?
A)TANs usually have better expertise about international relations than states.
B)States are better off delegating tasks to nonstate actors,as nonstate actors can better represent states' interests.
C)Monitoring is costly and it is therefore less expensive if a TAN monitors state behavior.
D)States have more control over TANs than they do their own bureaucracies.
E)Monitoring is a costless activity for TANs to undertake.
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Chapter 13: Human Rights
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Q1) Explain the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC),its purpose,and its jurisdiction.Why and how has the United States opposed the creation of the ICC?
Q2) The United States has taken all of the following actions in relation to the ICC EXCEPT the United States:
A)signed the treaty establishing the ICC.
B)ratified the treaty establishing the ICC.
C)"unsigned" the treaty establishing the ICC.
D)pushed countries to sign bilateral agreements guaranteeing that American nationals in their territories will not be sent to the ICC.
E)cut off aid to countries that refused to sign agreements limiting their right to send American nationals to the ICC.
Q3) How and why do states "lock-in" new institutions and improved practices by signing human rights agreements?
Q4) What is transitional justice? Why would a state opt for that approach toward human rights abuses rather than one that is more focused on direct punishment of offenders? Which approach do you believe to be superior?
Q5) 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) Limiting environmental control (heating and cooling)of personal houses in order to limit environmental consequences is an example of a:
A)collective action problem.
B)coordination game.
C)cooperation game.
D)strategic interaction.
E)principal-agent problem.
Q2) Why is cooperation to improve the environment sometimes like a Prisoner's Dilemma?
Q3) 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.
E)An international agency that monitors compliance with regulations.
Q4) Explain how interests and interactions make international environmental cooperation difficult to achieve,even when major actors have a shared interest in preserving the environment.
Q5) When is cooperation on international environmental problems most likely to occur?
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Chapter 15: The Future of International Politics
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Q1) How did nuclear weapons help lead to the "Long Peace"?
A)Other nations worked to keep both sides in check to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
B)Peace was maintained through international monitoring of nuclear weapon stocks.
C)Both powers spent so much money on developing new nuclear technologies that they could not afford war.
D)Because both powers had second-strike capability,neither was willing to start a direct war.
E)Only when one side agreed to share its nuclear secrets with the other could peace occur.
Q2) The ebb and flow of power is primarily tied to what two concepts?
A)Technology and the number of states in the system.
B)Technology and economic growth.
C)Communication and military power.
D)Economic growth and international organizations.
E)Sovereignty and military power.
Q3) Why didn't the rise in power of the United States lead to war?
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) The term détente refers to:
A)a lessening of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.
B)the achievement of nuclear parity between the Soviet Union and the United States.
C)the alliance of Japan,Germany,and Italy during World War II.
D)the Soviet-German nonaggression pact signed during World War II.
E)a period of increasing aggression between Germany and Great Britain where each side taunted each other with military deployments.
Q2) The study of world politics is like other fields of social science in that it:
A)tests its theories in Petri dishes.
B)rests on the tools of observation and theory.
C)does not offer consistent theories on human interaction.
D)ignores theoretical frameworks and looks merely at the data.
E)is understandable purely through observation.
Q3) In the game of Stag Hunt,which of the following is true?
A)There are no stable outcomes.
B)The only stable outcome is mutual cooperation.
C)The only stable outcome is mutual defection.
D)There are two stable outcomes: mutual cooperation and mutual defection.
E)Actors try to optimize other players' payoffs.
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Politics, and Looking Ahead
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Q1) What happens during the norms life cycle?
A)Norms start out widely accepted and then fade until they are not followed,leading to a boomerang where actors once again begin to believe in them.
B)Norm entrepreneurs frame issues to convince others to share their beliefs,eventually leading to a norm cascade as more actors accept them.
C)Norms become widely accepted quite easily but are never effective in altering behavior unless some sort of enforcement is present.
D)Norms tend to begin to reach prominence in the Global South before ultimately transitioning to the Global North as well.
E)Norms are ignored and then briefly accepted globally before becoming ignored again.
Q2) The primary culprit(s)in ozone depletion was/were:
A)carbon dioxide.
B)methane.
C)water vapor.
D)nongovernmental organizations.
E)chlorofluorocarbons.
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