CHAPTER 1
Analyzing World Politics
TRUE/FALSE
1. The absence of any authority capable of regulating the conduct of nation-states is
referred to as anarchy.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
2. After the Peace of Westphalia, hierarchy, rather than anarchy, became the
organizing principle in world politics.
ANS: F REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
3. The concept of sovereignty gives a state the right to make, enforce, and adjudicate
laws within their own domains.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Applied
4. The term nation and the term state mean the same thing.
ANS: F REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
5. The nation is a collection of people who, on the basis of ethnic, linguistic, or cultural
affinity, perceive themselves to be members of the same group.
, ANS: T REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
6. The United Nations is an example of a nonstate actor.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
7. The billiard-ball model of international relations is state-centric.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
8. International relations scholars consider nonstate actors to include all
transnationally active groups other than states.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
9. Schematic reasoning is the tendency for people to deny or rationalize away
discrepancies between their preexisting beliefs and new information.
ANS: F REF: 10 NOT: Applied
10. The Peter’s Projection map portrays land areas in correct proportion to one another
but distorts their shapes and positions.
ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
11. The Mercator map projection is the classic Eurocentric view of the world.
, ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
12. Most people resist unfamiliar information and ideas that are different from their
usual way of viewing and thinking about world affairs.
ANS: T REF: 13 NOT: Conceptual
13. The systemic level of analysis focuses on the domestic attributes of nation-states,
including their types of government, levels of economic development, and
characteristics of their society.
ANS: F REF: 16 NOT: Conceptual
14. International relations scholars refer to the deep, underlying factors that set off a
train of world events as proximate causes.
ANS: F REF: 17 NOT: Applied
15. Containment is the name of the foreign policy the USSR and its allies used to control
American expansion during the Cold War.
ANS: F REF: 20 NOT: Conceptual
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The earliest record of autonomous territorial states comes from
a. Ancient East Asia.
, b. Ancient Africa.
c. Ancient Mesopotamia.
d. Modern Europe.
e. None of the above is true.
ANS: C REF: 4 NOT: Factual
2. Which one of these wars was concluded by the Peace of Westphalia?
a. The Seven Year’s War
b. The Thirty Years’ War
c. The One Hundred Years’ War
d. The Napoleonic Wars
e. World War One
ANS: B REF: 7 NOT: Factual
3. An independent, territorially defined community in the global system administered
by a sovereign government is a(n)
a. nonstate actor.
b. state.
c. government.
d. cultural group.
e. actor.
ANS: B REF: 8 NOT: Factual
4. Which of the following is considered a nonstate actor?
Analyzing World Politics
TRUE/FALSE
1. The absence of any authority capable of regulating the conduct of nation-states is
referred to as anarchy.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
2. After the Peace of Westphalia, hierarchy, rather than anarchy, became the
organizing principle in world politics.
ANS: F REF: 7 NOT: Conceptual
3. The concept of sovereignty gives a state the right to make, enforce, and adjudicate
laws within their own domains.
ANS: T REF: 7 NOT: Applied
4. The term nation and the term state mean the same thing.
ANS: F REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
5. The nation is a collection of people who, on the basis of ethnic, linguistic, or cultural
affinity, perceive themselves to be members of the same group.
, ANS: T REF: 8 NOT: Conceptual
6. The United Nations is an example of a nonstate actor.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
7. The billiard-ball model of international relations is state-centric.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
8. International relations scholars consider nonstate actors to include all
transnationally active groups other than states.
ANS: T REF: 9 NOT: Conceptual
9. Schematic reasoning is the tendency for people to deny or rationalize away
discrepancies between their preexisting beliefs and new information.
ANS: F REF: 10 NOT: Applied
10. The Peter’s Projection map portrays land areas in correct proportion to one another
but distorts their shapes and positions.
ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
11. The Mercator map projection is the classic Eurocentric view of the world.
, ANS: T REF: 12 NOT: Conceptual
12. Most people resist unfamiliar information and ideas that are different from their
usual way of viewing and thinking about world affairs.
ANS: T REF: 13 NOT: Conceptual
13. The systemic level of analysis focuses on the domestic attributes of nation-states,
including their types of government, levels of economic development, and
characteristics of their society.
ANS: F REF: 16 NOT: Conceptual
14. International relations scholars refer to the deep, underlying factors that set off a
train of world events as proximate causes.
ANS: F REF: 17 NOT: Applied
15. Containment is the name of the foreign policy the USSR and its allies used to control
American expansion during the Cold War.
ANS: F REF: 20 NOT: Conceptual
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The earliest record of autonomous territorial states comes from
a. Ancient East Asia.
, b. Ancient Africa.
c. Ancient Mesopotamia.
d. Modern Europe.
e. None of the above is true.
ANS: C REF: 4 NOT: Factual
2. Which one of these wars was concluded by the Peace of Westphalia?
a. The Seven Year’s War
b. The Thirty Years’ War
c. The One Hundred Years’ War
d. The Napoleonic Wars
e. World War One
ANS: B REF: 7 NOT: Factual
3. An independent, territorially defined community in the global system administered
by a sovereign government is a(n)
a. nonstate actor.
b. state.
c. government.
d. cultural group.
e. actor.
ANS: B REF: 8 NOT: Factual
4. Which of the following is considered a nonstate actor?
