SOCIAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

SOCIAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
Interests
Answer:
actors and their preferences; what actors want to achieve through political action; their preferences over the
outcomes that might result from their political choices

Question:
State
Answer:
a central authority that can make and enforce laws within its territory; this authority is formally recognized
by other states

Question:
Sovereignty
Answer:
A state's supremacy within its boundaries is recognized by other states.

Question:
States Interests
Answer:
interests attributed to the states itself, usually security and power

Question:
Interactions
Answer:
cooperation, bargaining, public goods, and collective action; the ways in which the choices of two or more
actors combine to produce political outcomes ex. Saddam Hussein and Bush

Question:
When negotiating, actors should:
Answer:
1) Define their interests
2) Anticipate the interests and choices of others recognize that they do not operate in isolation
3) Consider choices of others when developing strategies for achieving their interests

Question:
Cooperation
Answer:
An interaction in which two or more actors adopt policies that make at least one actor better off relation to
the status quo without making others worse off

, Question:
Pareto frontier
Answer:
the line representing the possible division of the maximum feasible benefit

Question:
Bargaining
Answer:
An interaction in which actors must choose outcomes that make one better off at the expense of another.
Bargaining is redistributive: it involves allocating a fixed sum of value between different actors

Question:
Coordination
Answer:
A type of cooperative interaction in which actors benefit from all making the same choices and
subsequently have no incentive to not comply ex. driving on an agreed side of the road

Question:
Collaboration
Answer:
A type of cooperative interaction in which actors gain from working together but nonetheless have
incentives to not comply

Question:
Prisoner's Dilemma
Answer:
**** incentive to defect on each other DC >CC >DD >CD

Question:
Chicken
Answer:
DC >CC >CD >DD Ex. Coercive Bargaining pertaining to nuclear war

Question:
The Stag Hunt
Answer:
CC >DC >DD >CD Ex. Coordination in international relations

Question:
public goods
Answer:
Products that are nonexcludable and nonrival in consumptions, such as national defense, clean air and
water, and the eradication of communicable diseases

Question:
collective action problems