POLI 330 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The world is shape by who we are, and can change with - Answers :Gender, sexual
orientation, occupation, race, age, or citizenship
Interdependence - Answers :Mutual dependence
Most often, involves unequal benefits or cost, they do not necessarily benefit equally
from an exchange
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Answers :Example of
Interdependence
Cooperation - Answers :Mutually acceptable goals
Robert Keohane - Answers :Defines cooperation in more technical terms
Sums up liberal views on Interdependence, that interdependence in the world politics
generates conflicts.
Liberal scholars on cooperation - Answers :more cooperation and fewer conflicts. It
could only be positive
Realist and critical theorists on cooperation - Answers :International organization or
other international institutions lead to limit conflicts
Globalization - Answers :a process of global homogenization that makes people, places,
and things around the world more similar in many interrelated areas
Political Globalization - Answers :extension of political power and activity across state
boundaries
cultural globalization - Answers :The homogenization of cultural values around the world
Economic Globalization - Answers :The increasing integration and interdependence of
national economies around the world
Liberal's view on Globalization - Answers :states are losing authority to supranational
and transnational actors
Realist's view on Globalization - Answers :states retain their sovereignty, and
globalization does not render obsolete the struggle for power between states
Feminists view on globalization - Answers :the negative consequences of globalization
for women
, history of international relations - Answers :Began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
Established a system of independent and autonomous states
The world system theory - Answers :Found in the brith of capitalism since the 1400s.
The key aspect of this approach is that it provides a political economic analysis at an
international level.
Immanuel Wallerstein suggest that a world system is a social system
Assessment of the world system theory - Answers :Allows us to see how the world as
we know it took root, and how our world economy is an extension of earlier economies
There is a world system, and we just need to figure out where it will be
Uses the historical development of Europe as its norm
The international system theory - Answers :Favoured by realists argues that we can
draw from the examples of the past in order to develop our theories
The peace at Westphalia - Answers :In 1648, modern international relations began
The end of Thirty Years War
Thirty Years War - Answers :reflected at least two changes that were taking place within
Europe
The treaty of Westphalia - Answers :was two treaties signed in Osnabruck and Munster
and took 4 years to negotiate
Morse 1976 - Answers :the basis for the Westphalian state system as we know
1. the treaty ensured that politics would be based on secular rather than religious claims
2. the state sovereignty would now be the basis for international law
3. the treaty initiated the idea that only way to ensure balance in interstate system would
be through a balance of power
Capitalist Expansion - Answers :During 1300s and 1400s
"Crisis of feudalism"
Spain and Portugal Conquests - Answers :taken over part of Brazil, seized most of Latin
America
use native labour to extract gold and silver for export
The world is shape by who we are, and can change with - Answers :Gender, sexual
orientation, occupation, race, age, or citizenship
Interdependence - Answers :Mutual dependence
Most often, involves unequal benefits or cost, they do not necessarily benefit equally
from an exchange
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Answers :Example of
Interdependence
Cooperation - Answers :Mutually acceptable goals
Robert Keohane - Answers :Defines cooperation in more technical terms
Sums up liberal views on Interdependence, that interdependence in the world politics
generates conflicts.
Liberal scholars on cooperation - Answers :more cooperation and fewer conflicts. It
could only be positive
Realist and critical theorists on cooperation - Answers :International organization or
other international institutions lead to limit conflicts
Globalization - Answers :a process of global homogenization that makes people, places,
and things around the world more similar in many interrelated areas
Political Globalization - Answers :extension of political power and activity across state
boundaries
cultural globalization - Answers :The homogenization of cultural values around the world
Economic Globalization - Answers :The increasing integration and interdependence of
national economies around the world
Liberal's view on Globalization - Answers :states are losing authority to supranational
and transnational actors
Realist's view on Globalization - Answers :states retain their sovereignty, and
globalization does not render obsolete the struggle for power between states
Feminists view on globalization - Answers :the negative consequences of globalization
for women
, history of international relations - Answers :Began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
Established a system of independent and autonomous states
The world system theory - Answers :Found in the brith of capitalism since the 1400s.
The key aspect of this approach is that it provides a political economic analysis at an
international level.
Immanuel Wallerstein suggest that a world system is a social system
Assessment of the world system theory - Answers :Allows us to see how the world as
we know it took root, and how our world economy is an extension of earlier economies
There is a world system, and we just need to figure out where it will be
Uses the historical development of Europe as its norm
The international system theory - Answers :Favoured by realists argues that we can
draw from the examples of the past in order to develop our theories
The peace at Westphalia - Answers :In 1648, modern international relations began
The end of Thirty Years War
Thirty Years War - Answers :reflected at least two changes that were taking place within
Europe
The treaty of Westphalia - Answers :was two treaties signed in Osnabruck and Munster
and took 4 years to negotiate
Morse 1976 - Answers :the basis for the Westphalian state system as we know
1. the treaty ensured that politics would be based on secular rather than religious claims
2. the state sovereignty would now be the basis for international law
3. the treaty initiated the idea that only way to ensure balance in interstate system would
be through a balance of power
Capitalist Expansion - Answers :During 1300s and 1400s
"Crisis of feudalism"
Spain and Portugal Conquests - Answers :taken over part of Brazil, seized most of Latin
America
use native labour to extract gold and silver for export
