PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

PSU PLSC 14 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass What's international relations? - Answer- Main subfield of political science that analyzes the international and domestic qualities of the international system. What are states? - Answer- Sovereign countries that comprise the international system What does it mean to be sovereign? - Answer- All governments reign supreme within each state's respective border. What's the International system? - Answer- Anarchic in the sense that there is no overarching government, though that does not imply that it is disorderly. No state in it is fully independent, and no state can provide for all of their needs. The behavior of one state impacts others. What's the state of nature? - Answer- Theorized to be produced by anarchy, life is "Short, nasty, and brutish." How is order imposed? - Answer- Is imposed by: -International organizations like the UN and the EU -International treaties -International law (though these are hard to enforce, states tend to follow them anyways) -Regimes and alliances (NATO, for example) -Superpowers (Powerful countries like the US, China) -Markets (though China and the US are adversarial, they are also trade partners) -Norms and values What are Non-state actors (NGOs)? - Answer- Becoming increasingly more important. These include lobbying groups, organizations, multinational corporations (MNCs), individuals (celebrities and other famous people) What's the 3rd Level of Analysis? - Answer- Systemic; looks at the entire international system at once (all actors, institutions etc) EX: how the end of the cold war affected security alliances like NATO (this looks at the entire system) What's the 2nd Level of Analysis? - Answer- State; Focuses on specific national governments. Ex. How election of Donald Trump affected US relations with Germany What's the 1st Level of Analysis? - Answer- Individual - person (usually means leader psychology human nature) EX: How President Kennedy's deep fear of repeating the mistakes of appeasement (accepting someone's demands, if you accept someone demands they will keep coming back with bigger demands) affected by his policy during the cuban missile crisis (this is about President What's the point of Grand Theories/Approaches/Paradigms? - Answer- Aim to explain how the international system works. Examples of these include Realism, Liberalism (these are the two main schools of thought), Constructivism, Foreign Policy Analysis, Marxism, Feminism What's power? - Answer- Ability to get someone to do something they ordinarily would not do and is unevenly distributed What types of power is there? - Answer- Coercion, Structural/Institutional, Hard, Soft What's coercive power? - Answer- Power based on force or threat of force with adverse consequences What's Structural/Institutional Power? - Answer- Power based on institutional rules or norms What's Hard Power? - Answer- Power based on military force