International Relations Mid Term (Chapter 1-7) Exam Questions with Verified Answers

international relations (IR) - ANSWER-relationships between world's governments collective goods problem - ANSWER-how to provide something that benefits all members of the group regardless of what each member contributes dominance - ANSWER-power hierarchy- the top controls the bottom (self interest) reciprocity - ANSWER-rewarding behavior that contributes to the group but at the same time, punishes behavior that uses self-interest identity - ANSWER-members of the community care about the interests of others and sacrifice own interests to benefit others. state - ANSWER-territorial thing that is controlled by a government or occupied by a population sovereignity - ANSWER-government has the right to do what it want in its own territory. also means that states are not supposed to interfere in the internal affairs of other states. intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) - ANSWER-organizations - members of national governments exs. (NATO), (WTO), African Union, United Nations nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) - ANSWER-private organizations- vary in purpose- political, economic, technical ex. amnesty international, red cross Multinational Corporations (MNCs) - ANSWER-companies that span in multiple countries ex. Walmart, Toyota, McDonalds Globalization - ANSWER-expanded international trade,tele-communications, monetary coordination, multinational corporations, technical and scientific cooperation, cultural exchange of new types and scale, migration and refugee flows, and relations between the world's rich and poor countries North-South gap - ANSWER-relationship between the rich industrialized countries in the North and the poor countries in the South