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World Politics explores the complex interactions among nations, institutions, and global actors that shape the contemporary international system. The course examines foundational theories of international relations, the processes behind foreign policy decision-making, and the impact of globalization on political, economic, and cultural dimensions of world affairs. Students will analyze case studies covering issues such as power dynamics, conflict, cooperation, international organizations, human rights, and global governance, equipping them with the tools to critically assess current and emerging global challenges.
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Essentials of International Relations 8th Edition by Karen A. Mingst
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Chapter 1: Approaches to International Relations
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Q1) Using the comparative method,Aristotle concluded that states rise and fall because of
A) anarchy.
B) the "state of nature."
C) natural law.
D) internal factors.
Answer: D
Q2) Theorists who use alternative methods to study international relations contend that
A) it is important to study social and cultural factors.
B) properly conducted research can produce a single unified theory of international relations.
C) social forces with clearly fixed meanings inform all political processes.
D) state behavior can be measured if one uses the right statistical methods.
Answer: A
Q3) Important questions of international relations today can be answered with exclusive reliance on the behavioral approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Historical Context of Contemporary
International Relations
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Q1) The rise of populism that began in 2016
A) was triggered by the election of populist parties in the Netherlands and France.
B) is a reaction to the economic and political globalization that began at the end of the Cold War.
C) was triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.
D) is a reaction to the rise of the Islamic State.
Answer: B
Q2) Two principles that rose out of the American and French Revolutions and provided the foundation for politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are
A) democracy and behavioralism.
B) legitimacy from the consent of the governed and nationalism.
C) sovereignty and capitalism.
D) legitimacy from divine right and feudalism.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: International Relations Theories
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Q1) Which of the following is true of the liberal perspective?
A) No liberal theories believe that free trade is possible.
B) All liberal theories believe that domestic actors share an interest in cooperation.
C) All liberal theories believe that states are unitary actors.
D) No liberal theories believe that cooperation will always occur.
Answer: D
Q2) Dependency theorists argue that
A) the underdevelopment of states is largely due to the bilateral distribution of power in the system.
B) the underdevelopment of states is largely due to a lack of economic interdependence.
C) the unequal positions of developed and developing countries is decreasing over time.
D) the unequal positions of developed and developing countries is intensifying over time.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Levels of Analysis
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Q1) According to realists,peace in the international system will prove elusive because A) states have an interest in creating a unipolar system.
B) most states prefer to keep their sovereignty and thus have some risk of war over creating a unipolar system.
C) most states prefer to bandwagon rather than balance.
D) most states prefer to balance rather than bandwagon.
Q2) Which example would constructivists use to explain the rise of "new ideas" in Soviet foreign policy?
A) the role played by Lenin
B) the role played by networks of pro-Western reformers
C) the role played by the Soviet military
D) the role played by rapid Soviet economic growth
Q3) Liberalism assigns relatively less theoretical importance to the international system than realism.Given this,what are the most important contributions of liberal theory to our understanding of the international system? Do liberals really care about the international system,or do their primary analytical concerns lie elsewhere? Explain your answer.
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Chapter 5: The State
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Q1) According to the rational model of decision making,foreign policy decisions result from members of the government rationally following their standard operating procedures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "National self-determination" is
A) the idea that states should respect other cultures.
B) the idea that only certain cultures can make up a state.
C) the idea that people of the same nation have the right to determine how and under what conditions they should live.
D) the idea that the state defines what makes up a nation.
Q3) The fight over trade policy formation that takes place within the government between the ministries of agriculture,industry,and labor best illustrates which foreign policy model at work?
A) rational
B) bureaucratic politics
C) pluralist
D) constructivist
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Chapter 6: War and Security
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Q1) Which of the following is among the fundamental assumptions of collective security?
A) It is not always clear who the aggressor is.
B) Only powerful states can respond to aggressors.
C) Threat of military action cannot stop wars.
D) Aggressors are morally wrong and should be stopped.
Q2) The wars that followed the Arab Spring in 2011 are not categorized as civil wars because the government had significantly more capacity to harm the rebels than the rebels had to harm the government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After having been defeated in World War I,Germany significantly rose in power and almost achieved parity with France and Britain.That this led Germany to act militarily to secure its new position in the international system would be an argument made by a
A) neorealist
B) power balancing theorist
C) hegemonic stability theorist
D) power transition theorist
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Chapter 7: International Cooperation and International Law
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Q1) Which of the following is true of international criminal law?
A) States have created a single,overarching treaty to help combat terrorism.
B) National courts do not deal with international criminal law.
C) Extradition treaties have been a source of disagreement among states.
D) Only transnational crimes have been the subject of international criminal law.
Q2) According to realists,the arms race between the Soviet Union and United States during the Cold War:
A) occurred because they both preferred conflict over cooperation.
B) illustrates how reciprocity can foster cooperation.
C) resulted from a concern with losing relative military power.
D) resulted from the Soviet Union's monopoly on nuclear weapons.
Q3) In a prisoner's dilemma situation
A) both actors are concerned with relative gains.
B) both actors are better off if they mutually cooperate than if they mutually defect.
C) both actors prefer to cooperate.
D) cooperation is not possible.
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Chapter 8: International Political Economy
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Q1) According to economic liberals,multinational corporations (MNCs)________.
A) exploit the working class to benefit the upper class
B) are efficient agents of economic improvement
C) are a main cause of current account deficits
D) have stagnated the growth of the world economy
Q2) Liberals favor free trade and argue that states should produce goods in which they have comparative advantage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The New Development Bank is
A) the original name for the World Bank.
B) an institution founded by the BRICS states to serve as an alternative to the World Bank.
C) an institution created by the World Bank to help oversee the use of the loans it gives out.
D) criticized because it is dominated by the United States.
Q4) The WTO permits developing countries to impose higher tariffs than industrialized countries.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9:
Intergovernmental Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations
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Q1) Which of the following is true of the election of the UN Secretary General who came to power in 2017?
A) For the first time,a woman was elected secretary general.
B) For the first time,all candidates appeared before the General Assembly to present platforms and answer questions,as the election was highly contested.
C) For the first time,the election was won by a candidate that was not from Western Europe.
D) For the first time,the winner had not previously held a position in the UN.
Q2) The League of Arab States ________.
A) disintegrated in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in 2011.
B) took decisive action in response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in 2014.
C) has never deployed a multilateral mission.
D) has sometimes interfered in the domestic politics of a state.
Q3) Functionalist logic argues that states can cooperate only on technical issues; they will not be able to cooperate on political or military issues.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Human Rights
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Q1) The "responsibility to protect (R2P)" norm has been invoked only selectively,in some cases but not in others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Early United Nations efforts following the 1949 Universal Declaration of Human Rights focused on getting states to grant women ________.
A) civil and political rights
B) socioeconomic rights
C) workers' rights
D) religious rights
Q3) Less developed states,even liberal democratic ones,often fail to meet obligations of social and economic rights.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Convention on the Prevention of Genocide was adopted in what year?
A) 1648
B) 1920
C) 1948
D) 1991
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Chapter 11: Human Security: Migration, Global Health, and the Environment
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Q1) Global governance implies that international actors need a unifying political authority in order to coordinate their interests and actions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following places is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS health problem?
A) Africa
B) India
C) United States
D) China
Q3) Which of the following places hosts the most migrants?
A) Europe
B) China
C) United States
D) Africa
Q4) Which of the following issues was one of the first historical areas of international cooperation?
A) refugees
B) human rights
C) health
D) nuclear nonproliferation
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