INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EXAM WITH REVISED
SOLUTIONS #10
Soverignty - correct answer Internal /external , autonamy required to be considered a
state
If two states act cooperatively, displaying common behavior and attitudes toward other
actors and issues, without a formal agreement, they are in: - correct answer Coalition
The prominence of nations is associated with - correct answer The French Revolution
Definitions of politics emphasize - correct answer conflicts of interest
Britain was the balancer in the - correct answer Concert of Europe
Unconventional actions desgined to exploit particular weaknesses of an oppenant that
otherwise possesses vastly superior military might - correct answer Asymmetric warfare
Points of an ordered scale of size and complexity ( includes units whose behavior we
attempt to describe , predict or explain) - correct answer Levels of Analysis
Two different kinds of influence of foreign policy - correct answer internal - originate
from within the nation-state
External - outside the borders
Most comprehensive level of analysis , global patterns of behavior among states and
level of interdependence within them - correct answer International system
4 characteristics of states - correct answer Soveirgnty
Population
Territory
Government
An arena where institutions and other linkages between states could facilitate and
promote cooperation, coordination and nonviolent modes of conflict resolution - correct
answer Society of States
Another name for realpolitik - correct answer Realism
Approach that treats all actors as rational with interests and capabilities - correct answer
Rationalism
Approach that states and other actors interests are socially constructed and are not the
result of predetermined geography , military capabilities and or other material factors -
correct answer Constructivism
, Principles , propositions or laws that will only hold under certain conditions - correct
answer contingencies
An intellectual tool that provides us with a way to organize the complexity of the world
and helps us see how phenomena are interrelated - correct answer theory
Procedures by which we collect evidence should be - correct answer transparent
A theoretical statement that connects an explanation to possible real world observations
- correct answer hypothesis
Hypotheses that have undergone extensive testing and are repeatedly confirmed in a
wide range of relevant cases with virtually no exceptions are known as - correct answer
laws
Given some antecedent conditions most events of behavior given a certain type will
occur in a certain way most of the time - correct answer probabilistic explanations
All theories include - correct answer assumptions
Constructing models of what international actors do , how they do it and why... With the
expectation that these models can be evaluated through observation - correct answer
empirical theory
Rightness or wrongess of what actors & the justice/injustice of the outcomes - correct
answer normative theory
A people who feel themselves part of some large identity group - correct answer nation
Complex set of psychological, cultural and social forces that drive the formation of a
nation - correct answer Nationalism
Was signed to end the Thirty Years war - correct answer The Treaty of Westphalia
A legal entity consisting of government that manages the affairs of a population in a
given territory - correct answer state
People who identitified as nation together in territory managed by a government -
correct answer nation-state
The number of states since world war 2 has - correct answer risen steadily
1648 - correct answer treaty of westphalia ( the birth of the modern state system)
No other national or internatonal entity can legitmately dictates a states activities - there
is no authority above the state - correct answer anarchy
SOLUTIONS #10
Soverignty - correct answer Internal /external , autonamy required to be considered a
state
If two states act cooperatively, displaying common behavior and attitudes toward other
actors and issues, without a formal agreement, they are in: - correct answer Coalition
The prominence of nations is associated with - correct answer The French Revolution
Definitions of politics emphasize - correct answer conflicts of interest
Britain was the balancer in the - correct answer Concert of Europe
Unconventional actions desgined to exploit particular weaknesses of an oppenant that
otherwise possesses vastly superior military might - correct answer Asymmetric warfare
Points of an ordered scale of size and complexity ( includes units whose behavior we
attempt to describe , predict or explain) - correct answer Levels of Analysis
Two different kinds of influence of foreign policy - correct answer internal - originate
from within the nation-state
External - outside the borders
Most comprehensive level of analysis , global patterns of behavior among states and
level of interdependence within them - correct answer International system
4 characteristics of states - correct answer Soveirgnty
Population
Territory
Government
An arena where institutions and other linkages between states could facilitate and
promote cooperation, coordination and nonviolent modes of conflict resolution - correct
answer Society of States
Another name for realpolitik - correct answer Realism
Approach that treats all actors as rational with interests and capabilities - correct answer
Rationalism
Approach that states and other actors interests are socially constructed and are not the
result of predetermined geography , military capabilities and or other material factors -
correct answer Constructivism
, Principles , propositions or laws that will only hold under certain conditions - correct
answer contingencies
An intellectual tool that provides us with a way to organize the complexity of the world
and helps us see how phenomena are interrelated - correct answer theory
Procedures by which we collect evidence should be - correct answer transparent
A theoretical statement that connects an explanation to possible real world observations
- correct answer hypothesis
Hypotheses that have undergone extensive testing and are repeatedly confirmed in a
wide range of relevant cases with virtually no exceptions are known as - correct answer
laws
Given some antecedent conditions most events of behavior given a certain type will
occur in a certain way most of the time - correct answer probabilistic explanations
All theories include - correct answer assumptions
Constructing models of what international actors do , how they do it and why... With the
expectation that these models can be evaluated through observation - correct answer
empirical theory
Rightness or wrongess of what actors & the justice/injustice of the outcomes - correct
answer normative theory
A people who feel themselves part of some large identity group - correct answer nation
Complex set of psychological, cultural and social forces that drive the formation of a
nation - correct answer Nationalism
Was signed to end the Thirty Years war - correct answer The Treaty of Westphalia
A legal entity consisting of government that manages the affairs of a population in a
given territory - correct answer state
People who identitified as nation together in territory managed by a government -
correct answer nation-state
The number of states since world war 2 has - correct answer risen steadily
1648 - correct answer treaty of westphalia ( the birth of the modern state system)
No other national or internatonal entity can legitmately dictates a states activities - there
is no authority above the state - correct answer anarchy
