PSC 231 Final Exam questions n
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Realism - correct answer ✔✔An approach to IR that emphasizes the role of the nation-state and
makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or at best,
national interests disguised as moral concerns
Realist views of individual - correct answer ✔✔insecure, selfish, power seeking
Realist views of state - correct answer ✔✔insecure, selfish, unitary, power -seeking as evidence
of rationality
Realist view of International System - correct answer ✔✔- Anarchic - implies perpetual threat of
war
- more stale as distribution o power approaches unpolarity
Realist views about change - correct answer ✔✔- possibility of perpetual peace logically
precluded
- emphasis shifted to managing the frequency and intensity of war
Liberalism - correct answer ✔✔Takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to
be the central problem of politics
- government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others
- recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty
Liberalism views of individuals - correct answer ✔✔basically good, social, capable of
cooperation
, Liberalism views of state - correct answer ✔✔- states are selfish; have pre-existing relationships
with others that can be either considered "friends" or "rivals"
- can be good or bad
Liberalism views of International System - correct answer ✔✔- anarchy abridged by
interdependence among actors; an international order
Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes what he calls the "state of nature". What does this
concept illustrate? - correct answer ✔✔Anarchy
A theory is a set of generalized statements about political, social, or economic activity that -
correct answer ✔✔seeks to describe and explain those activities
For constructionist, what is a common source of change in the international system? - correct
answer ✔✔New norms and ideas diffuse through the system
How would realist explain the opposition o certain countries to the 2003 Iraq War? - correct
answer ✔✔They felt the war was not in their national interests.
A currently rapidly rising power that could greatly alter the international system is - correct
answer ✔✔China
In examining the international system, radicals are concerned primarily with - correct answer
✔✔Stratification
Stratification - correct answer ✔✔system or formation of layers, classes, or categories.
- a society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation
and income, wealth and social status, or derived power
answers passed
Realism - correct answer ✔✔An approach to IR that emphasizes the role of the nation-state and
makes a broad assumption that all nation-states are motivated by national interests, or at best,
national interests disguised as moral concerns
Realist views of individual - correct answer ✔✔insecure, selfish, power seeking
Realist views of state - correct answer ✔✔insecure, selfish, unitary, power -seeking as evidence
of rationality
Realist view of International System - correct answer ✔✔- Anarchic - implies perpetual threat of
war
- more stale as distribution o power approaches unpolarity
Realist views about change - correct answer ✔✔- possibility of perpetual peace logically
precluded
- emphasis shifted to managing the frequency and intensity of war
Liberalism - correct answer ✔✔Takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to
be the central problem of politics
- government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others
- recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty
Liberalism views of individuals - correct answer ✔✔basically good, social, capable of
cooperation
, Liberalism views of state - correct answer ✔✔- states are selfish; have pre-existing relationships
with others that can be either considered "friends" or "rivals"
- can be good or bad
Liberalism views of International System - correct answer ✔✔- anarchy abridged by
interdependence among actors; an international order
Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes what he calls the "state of nature". What does this
concept illustrate? - correct answer ✔✔Anarchy
A theory is a set of generalized statements about political, social, or economic activity that -
correct answer ✔✔seeks to describe and explain those activities
For constructionist, what is a common source of change in the international system? - correct
answer ✔✔New norms and ideas diffuse through the system
How would realist explain the opposition o certain countries to the 2003 Iraq War? - correct
answer ✔✔They felt the war was not in their national interests.
A currently rapidly rising power that could greatly alter the international system is - correct
answer ✔✔China
In examining the international system, radicals are concerned primarily with - correct answer
✔✔Stratification
Stratification - correct answer ✔✔system or formation of layers, classes, or categories.
- a society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation
and income, wealth and social status, or derived power
