POSC 2601 Midterm Questions with
100% Correct Answers
international relations Correct Answer: dealings between nations around the
world; political relations between states
4 subfields of international relations Correct Answer: International security,
international law and organizations, international political economy,
international development
state sovereignty Correct Answer: the concept that states have the right to
govern themselves independent of the federal government; have territory,
population, and monopoly over legitimate use of physical force
international levels of analysis Correct Answer: individual, state, international
thirty years war Correct Answer: Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman
Empire ends with peace of westpahlia.1618-48) A series of European wars that
were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte
between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
peace of Westphalia (1648) Correct Answer: The treaty ending the Thirty Years'
War in Germany; it allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or
Calvinist-to choose the established religion of his territory.
European state making (tilly) Correct Answer: war is the primary driver of the
formation of modern states; have to develop better admin, military, and tech
divine right of kings Correct Answer: Doctrine that states that the right of ruling
comes from God and not people's consent
, the great divergence Correct Answer: The process in which the Western world,
Western Europe and the parts of the New World where its people became the
dominant population, overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged
during the 19th century as the most powerful and wealthy world civilization.
realism and human nature Correct Answer: - Naturally selfish and egotistical
- Human nature is fixed
- Motivated by desire to dominate others
- Motivated by need to survive
- realism = power
thucydides' melian dialogue Correct Answer: The Athenians tell the island
inhabitants of Melos who appeal to the principle of justice that "the strong do
what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to
accept."
Machiavellis the prince Correct Answer: A short political treatise about political
power how the ruler should gain, maintain, and increase it. Machiavelli explores
the problems of human nature and concludes that human beings are selfish
and out to advance their own interests; a state does what it must to survive
Hobbes leviathan Correct Answer: Violence (deployment or threat of it) often
necessary for enforcement of directives; without a common power people will
do bad things to survive
anarchy Correct Answer: a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition
of authority
statism Correct Answer: The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over
the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
100% Correct Answers
international relations Correct Answer: dealings between nations around the
world; political relations between states
4 subfields of international relations Correct Answer: International security,
international law and organizations, international political economy,
international development
state sovereignty Correct Answer: the concept that states have the right to
govern themselves independent of the federal government; have territory,
population, and monopoly over legitimate use of physical force
international levels of analysis Correct Answer: individual, state, international
thirty years war Correct Answer: Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman
Empire ends with peace of westpahlia.1618-48) A series of European wars that
were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte
between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
peace of Westphalia (1648) Correct Answer: The treaty ending the Thirty Years'
War in Germany; it allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or
Calvinist-to choose the established religion of his territory.
European state making (tilly) Correct Answer: war is the primary driver of the
formation of modern states; have to develop better admin, military, and tech
divine right of kings Correct Answer: Doctrine that states that the right of ruling
comes from God and not people's consent
, the great divergence Correct Answer: The process in which the Western world,
Western Europe and the parts of the New World where its people became the
dominant population, overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged
during the 19th century as the most powerful and wealthy world civilization.
realism and human nature Correct Answer: - Naturally selfish and egotistical
- Human nature is fixed
- Motivated by desire to dominate others
- Motivated by need to survive
- realism = power
thucydides' melian dialogue Correct Answer: The Athenians tell the island
inhabitants of Melos who appeal to the principle of justice that "the strong do
what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to
accept."
Machiavellis the prince Correct Answer: A short political treatise about political
power how the ruler should gain, maintain, and increase it. Machiavelli explores
the problems of human nature and concludes that human beings are selfish
and out to advance their own interests; a state does what it must to survive
Hobbes leviathan Correct Answer: Violence (deployment or threat of it) often
necessary for enforcement of directives; without a common power people will
do bad things to survive
anarchy Correct Answer: a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition
of authority
statism Correct Answer: The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over
the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
