POSC 230 exam 1 Keller JMU questions
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4 main subfields of IR - correct answer ✔✔Foreign Policy, International security, international
political economy, international organization/ law
Major actors - correct answer ✔✔Nations, States, IGOs, NGOs, MNCs, terrorist groups,
bureaucracies, individuals
Nations - correct answer ✔✔are bound by a cultural identity and a language most of the time,
may cross state borders ie.) Kurdistan
states - correct answer ✔✔maintain a legitimate monopoly of force over a territory and those
residing in it, legal identity and defending a border
3 goals of IR/Political Science - correct answer ✔✔Description (insufficient) , Prediction
(controversial) , Explanation (primary goal)
difference between correlation and causation, Spurious relationship? - correct answer ✔✔Part
of explanation, correlation does not always equal causation (spurious relationship: Nicholas
cage movies and drownings) may be a hidden variable, most events have multi causal origins
International system - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Anarchy, balance of
power, IGOs, diplomacy, neorealism
State - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Interest groups, institutions, public
opinion, bureaucracies , Democratic peace theory
, Individual - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Leaders beliefs, personality,
choices, image theory
Treaty of Westphalia - correct answer ✔✔Ended the 30 years war, said every country leader got
to decide the religion for their country and no outsider could take it over and decide go change
the religion
Imperialism - correct answer ✔✔A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other
countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Balance of power system - correct answer ✔✔A system of international alliances that, in theory,
would balance the power of one group of nations against the power of another group and thus
discourage war.
Nationalism - correct answer ✔✔A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
Truman doctrine - correct answer ✔✔containment of communism
marshall plan - correct answer ✔✔US aid to rebuild europe after WWII
Domino theory - correct answer ✔✔A theory that if one nation comes under Communist
control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Proxy wars - correct answer ✔✔a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become
involved.
korean war - correct answer ✔✔1st test of containment
cuban missle crisis - correct answer ✔✔closest call to nuclear war
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4 main subfields of IR - correct answer ✔✔Foreign Policy, International security, international
political economy, international organization/ law
Major actors - correct answer ✔✔Nations, States, IGOs, NGOs, MNCs, terrorist groups,
bureaucracies, individuals
Nations - correct answer ✔✔are bound by a cultural identity and a language most of the time,
may cross state borders ie.) Kurdistan
states - correct answer ✔✔maintain a legitimate monopoly of force over a territory and those
residing in it, legal identity and defending a border
3 goals of IR/Political Science - correct answer ✔✔Description (insufficient) , Prediction
(controversial) , Explanation (primary goal)
difference between correlation and causation, Spurious relationship? - correct answer ✔✔Part
of explanation, correlation does not always equal causation (spurious relationship: Nicholas
cage movies and drownings) may be a hidden variable, most events have multi causal origins
International system - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Anarchy, balance of
power, IGOs, diplomacy, neorealism
State - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Interest groups, institutions, public
opinion, bureaucracies , Democratic peace theory
, Individual - key causes and explanation - correct answer ✔✔Leaders beliefs, personality,
choices, image theory
Treaty of Westphalia - correct answer ✔✔Ended the 30 years war, said every country leader got
to decide the religion for their country and no outsider could take it over and decide go change
the religion
Imperialism - correct answer ✔✔A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other
countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Balance of power system - correct answer ✔✔A system of international alliances that, in theory,
would balance the power of one group of nations against the power of another group and thus
discourage war.
Nationalism - correct answer ✔✔A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
Truman doctrine - correct answer ✔✔containment of communism
marshall plan - correct answer ✔✔US aid to rebuild europe after WWII
Domino theory - correct answer ✔✔A theory that if one nation comes under Communist
control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Proxy wars - correct answer ✔✔a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become
involved.
korean war - correct answer ✔✔1st test of containment
cuban missle crisis - correct answer ✔✔closest call to nuclear war
