INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TEST AND ANSWERS #7
International relations - correct answer concerns the relationship among the world's
governments
Collective goods problem - correct answer the problem of how to provide something that
benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it
Dominance - correct answer establishes a hierarchy in which those at the top control
those below-a bit like government without an actual government
Reciprocity - correct answer solves the collective goods problem by rewarding behavior
that contributes the to the group and punishing the problem
Identity - correct answer does not rely on self-interest; members of community care
about the interests of others in that community enough to sacrifice their own self-interest
to benefit others
Issue areas - correct answer distinct spheres of international activity (such as global
trade negotiation) within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and
sometimes achieve cooperations
Conflict and cooperation - correct answer the types of actions that states take toward
each other through time
International security - correct answer a subfield of ir that focuses on questions of war
and peace
International political economy - correct answer the study of the politics of trade,
monetary, and other economic relations among national and their connection to other
transnational forces
State - correct answer an inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that
exercises sovereignty on its territories
International system - correct answer a subfield of ir that focuses on questions of war
and peace
Nation-states - correct answer states who populations share a sense of national identity,
usually including a language and culture
Gross domestic product - correct answer the size of a state's total annual economic
activity
Non-state actors - correct answer actors other than state governments that operate
either below the level of the state (that is, within the state) across state borders
, Intergovernmental organization - correct answer such as the un and nongovernmental
organizations such as the international committee of red cross
Nongovernmental organizations - correct answer a transnational group or entity that
interacts with states, multinational corporations, other ngos and igos
Globalization - correct answer the increasing integration of the world in terms of
communications, culture, and economics
North-south gap - correct answer the disparity in resources between the industrialized,
relatively rich countries of the west and the poorer counties of africa, the middle east
and much of asia and latin america
League of nations - correct answer an organization formed after wwi and a forerunner of
today's united nations, it achieved a certain humanitarian and other successes but was
weakened by the absences of the us's membership and its own lack of effectiveness in
ensuring collective security
Munich agreement - correct answer a symbol of the failed policy of appeasement, this
agreement signed in 1938, allowed nazi germany to occupy a part of czechoslovakia.
Rather than appease german aspirations, it was followed by farther german expansion,
which lead to wwii
Cold war - correct answer the hostile relations-punctuated by occasional periods of
improvement, or detente- between the two superpowers, the us and soviet union from
1945-1990
Containment - correct answer a policy adopted by us in the late 1940s by which the
united states sought to halt the global expansion of soviet influence on several levels-
military, political, ideological, and economic
Sino-soviet spilt - correct answer a rift in the 1960s between the communist powers of
the soviet union and china, fueled by china's opposition to soviet moves toward peaceful
coexistence with the united states
Summit meeting - correct answer a meeting between heads of states, often referring to
leaders of great powers, as in the cold war superpower summits between the us and the
soviet union or today's meetings of the group of eight on economic coordination
Cuban missile crisis - correct answer a superpower crisis, sparked by the soviet union's
installation of medium-range nuclear missiles in cuba, that marks the movement when
the us and the soviet union came closest to nuclear war
Proxy wars - correct answer wars in the third world-often civil wars-in which the us and
soviet union jockeyed for position by supplying and advising opposition factions
International relations - correct answer concerns the relationship among the world's
governments
Collective goods problem - correct answer the problem of how to provide something that
benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it
Dominance - correct answer establishes a hierarchy in which those at the top control
those below-a bit like government without an actual government
Reciprocity - correct answer solves the collective goods problem by rewarding behavior
that contributes the to the group and punishing the problem
Identity - correct answer does not rely on self-interest; members of community care
about the interests of others in that community enough to sacrifice their own self-interest
to benefit others
Issue areas - correct answer distinct spheres of international activity (such as global
trade negotiation) within which policy makers of various states face conflicts and
sometimes achieve cooperations
Conflict and cooperation - correct answer the types of actions that states take toward
each other through time
International security - correct answer a subfield of ir that focuses on questions of war
and peace
International political economy - correct answer the study of the politics of trade,
monetary, and other economic relations among national and their connection to other
transnational forces
State - correct answer an inhabited territorial entity controlled by a government that
exercises sovereignty on its territories
International system - correct answer a subfield of ir that focuses on questions of war
and peace
Nation-states - correct answer states who populations share a sense of national identity,
usually including a language and culture
Gross domestic product - correct answer the size of a state's total annual economic
activity
Non-state actors - correct answer actors other than state governments that operate
either below the level of the state (that is, within the state) across state borders
, Intergovernmental organization - correct answer such as the un and nongovernmental
organizations such as the international committee of red cross
Nongovernmental organizations - correct answer a transnational group or entity that
interacts with states, multinational corporations, other ngos and igos
Globalization - correct answer the increasing integration of the world in terms of
communications, culture, and economics
North-south gap - correct answer the disparity in resources between the industrialized,
relatively rich countries of the west and the poorer counties of africa, the middle east
and much of asia and latin america
League of nations - correct answer an organization formed after wwi and a forerunner of
today's united nations, it achieved a certain humanitarian and other successes but was
weakened by the absences of the us's membership and its own lack of effectiveness in
ensuring collective security
Munich agreement - correct answer a symbol of the failed policy of appeasement, this
agreement signed in 1938, allowed nazi germany to occupy a part of czechoslovakia.
Rather than appease german aspirations, it was followed by farther german expansion,
which lead to wwii
Cold war - correct answer the hostile relations-punctuated by occasional periods of
improvement, or detente- between the two superpowers, the us and soviet union from
1945-1990
Containment - correct answer a policy adopted by us in the late 1940s by which the
united states sought to halt the global expansion of soviet influence on several levels-
military, political, ideological, and economic
Sino-soviet spilt - correct answer a rift in the 1960s between the communist powers of
the soviet union and china, fueled by china's opposition to soviet moves toward peaceful
coexistence with the united states
Summit meeting - correct answer a meeting between heads of states, often referring to
leaders of great powers, as in the cold war superpower summits between the us and the
soviet union or today's meetings of the group of eight on economic coordination
Cuban missile crisis - correct answer a superpower crisis, sparked by the soviet union's
installation of medium-range nuclear missiles in cuba, that marks the movement when
the us and the soviet union came closest to nuclear war
Proxy wars - correct answer wars in the third world-often civil wars-in which the us and
soviet union jockeyed for position by supplying and advising opposition factions
