INS 3003 Exam 1 questions and
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Four fundamental legal conditions to qualify as a State... - correct answer ✔✔1. Must have a
territorial base, with geographically defined boundaries.
2. A stable population must reside within its borders
3. This population should owe allegiance to an effective government
4. Other states must recognize this state diplomatically
countries that fulfill the four criteria but are not recognized as legitimate states: - correct
answer ✔✔1. Abkhazia
2. Nagorno-Karabakh
3. South Ossetia
Nation State - correct answer ✔✔A state whose citizens all share a common national identity.
The foundation for national self-determination, the idea that people sharing nationhood have a
right to determine how and under what conditions they should live.
Statecraft - correct answer ✔✔Strategies for action vis-à-vis other states
Techniques states use to exert influence in international relations - correct answer ✔✔1.
Diplomacy
2. Economic statecraft
3. The use of force
All these techniques require credibility on the part of the state that seeks to use them to exert
influence
, Globalization - correct answer ✔✔The growing integration of the world in terms of politics,
economics, and culture; prompted both homogenization and differentiation. An outgrowth of
globalization has been both increasing democratization and the emerging power of
transnational movements
Transnational movements - correct answer ✔✔Groups of people from different states who
share religious, ideological, or policy beliefs and work together to change the status quo.
Ethnonational movements - correct answer ✔✔Self-conscious communities that share an ethnic
affiliation and participate in organized political activity
Fragile states: - correct answer ✔✔States with an inability to exercise a monopoly on the
legitimate use of force within their territory, make collective decisions because of the erosion of
legitimate authority, interact with other states in the international system, and/or provide
public services.
Power - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the ability to not only influence others but also to control
outcomes, producing results that would not have occurred naturally.
Power potential: - correct answer ✔✔A measure of the power an entity like a state could have,
derived from a consideration of both its tangible and intangible resources; states may not
always be able to transfer their power potential into actual power.
The three most important natural sources of power potential are: - correct answer ✔✔1.
Geographic size and position
2. Natural resources
3. Population
answers graded A+ passed
Four fundamental legal conditions to qualify as a State... - correct answer ✔✔1. Must have a
territorial base, with geographically defined boundaries.
2. A stable population must reside within its borders
3. This population should owe allegiance to an effective government
4. Other states must recognize this state diplomatically
countries that fulfill the four criteria but are not recognized as legitimate states: - correct
answer ✔✔1. Abkhazia
2. Nagorno-Karabakh
3. South Ossetia
Nation State - correct answer ✔✔A state whose citizens all share a common national identity.
The foundation for national self-determination, the idea that people sharing nationhood have a
right to determine how and under what conditions they should live.
Statecraft - correct answer ✔✔Strategies for action vis-à-vis other states
Techniques states use to exert influence in international relations - correct answer ✔✔1.
Diplomacy
2. Economic statecraft
3. The use of force
All these techniques require credibility on the part of the state that seeks to use them to exert
influence
, Globalization - correct answer ✔✔The growing integration of the world in terms of politics,
economics, and culture; prompted both homogenization and differentiation. An outgrowth of
globalization has been both increasing democratization and the emerging power of
transnational movements
Transnational movements - correct answer ✔✔Groups of people from different states who
share religious, ideological, or policy beliefs and work together to change the status quo.
Ethnonational movements - correct answer ✔✔Self-conscious communities that share an ethnic
affiliation and participate in organized political activity
Fragile states: - correct answer ✔✔States with an inability to exercise a monopoly on the
legitimate use of force within their territory, make collective decisions because of the erosion of
legitimate authority, interact with other states in the international system, and/or provide
public services.
Power - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the ability to not only influence others but also to control
outcomes, producing results that would not have occurred naturally.
Power potential: - correct answer ✔✔A measure of the power an entity like a state could have,
derived from a consideration of both its tangible and intangible resources; states may not
always be able to transfer their power potential into actual power.
The three most important natural sources of power potential are: - correct answer ✔✔1.
Geographic size and position
2. Natural resources
3. Population
