POSC 2601 - MIDTERM 1 CORRECT
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Core principles of IR - ANSWERDominance, reciprocity, identity
Dominance - ANSWERA hierarchy imposed solution to the collective action problem
Reciprocity - ANSWERReward good behavior and punish bad behavior
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- incentives for mutual cooperation
- downward spiral, complex accounting
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- order, stability, predictability
- oppression, resentment
Identity - ANSWERGroup interests > self interest
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- sacrifice for the group, redefine interests
- demonizing the outgroup
Collective action problem - ANSWERthe problem of how to provide benefits to all
members of a group regardless of whether all members contribute or not
Cost-benefit problem - ANSWERcosts > benefits = don't contribute
Globalization - ANSWERThe increasing integration of the world in terms of
communications, culture, and economics
Effects of globalization - ANSWER- increase in money flows, more wealth, more
efficient organizations, improved conditions
- Western exploitation of developing world, unequal development, increase gap
between rich and poor, unsustainable, threatens diversity
North-side gap - ANSWERthe disparity in resources between the industrialized,
relatively rich countries of the west and the poorer countries of Africa, the Middle
East, and much of Asia and Latin America
Soveriegnty - ANSWER
Free-rider problem - ANSWERdon't contribute but receive benefit/good
State actors - ANSWERA state is an inhabited territorial entity controlled by a
government that exercises sovereignty over its territory and population
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Core principles of IR - ANSWERDominance, reciprocity, identity
Dominance - ANSWERA hierarchy imposed solution to the collective action problem
Reciprocity - ANSWERReward good behavior and punish bad behavior
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- incentives for mutual cooperation
- downward spiral, complex accounting
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- order, stability, predictability
- oppression, resentment
Identity - ANSWERGroup interests > self interest
Advantages/disadvantages - ANSWER- sacrifice for the group, redefine interests
- demonizing the outgroup
Collective action problem - ANSWERthe problem of how to provide benefits to all
members of a group regardless of whether all members contribute or not
Cost-benefit problem - ANSWERcosts > benefits = don't contribute
Globalization - ANSWERThe increasing integration of the world in terms of
communications, culture, and economics
Effects of globalization - ANSWER- increase in money flows, more wealth, more
efficient organizations, improved conditions
- Western exploitation of developing world, unequal development, increase gap
between rich and poor, unsustainable, threatens diversity
North-side gap - ANSWERthe disparity in resources between the industrialized,
relatively rich countries of the west and the poorer countries of Africa, the Middle
East, and much of Asia and Latin America
Soveriegnty - ANSWER
Free-rider problem - ANSWERdon't contribute but receive benefit/good
State actors - ANSWERA state is an inhabited territorial entity controlled by a
government that exercises sovereignty over its territory and population
