INTL 105 VCU (exam 1) Questions with Answers (100% Correct Answers)

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INTL 105 VCU (exam 1) Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)

Who wrote State of Nature is the State of War? Answer: Hobbes

What started the sovereign state system? Answer: Peace of Westphalia

What are the 3 core assumptions of classical realists? Answer: -states
are rational

-balance of power

-states seek power

Which of the following is NOT a subfield of IR? Answer: -human rights

-development

-international security

-international sustainability




D: international sustainability


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True or False: a theory is stronger when it has fewer independent
variables? Answer: True

Kenneth Waltz Answer: 1. Man, the state and war

2. three "images" of causation, he favors the 3rd image or systemic

level

3. "Theory of International Politics" 1979

John Lepgold Answer: 1. Theory/ Policy Debate

Bismarck Answer: 1. Realpolitik

2. Classical Realism

E H Carr Answer: 1. 20 years crisis (first to define realism)

2. says realism is the balance of power among a state

Hans Morgenthau Answer: 1. Politics Among Nations (first IR theory
textbook)

2. Says that theory matters

Walt Answer: 1. Alliances (balancing vs. bandwagoning)


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