INTL 105 EXAM 1 (VCU) ACTUAL UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

INTL 105 EXAM 1 (VCU) ACTUAL
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Who wrote State of Nature is the State of War? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hobbes



What started the sovereign state system? - CORRECT ANSWER - Peace of Westphalia



What are the 3 core assumptions of classical realists? - CORRECT ANSWER - -states are
rational
-balance of power
-states seek power


Which of the following is NOT a subfield of IR? - CORRECT ANSWER - -human rights
-development
-international security
-international sustainability




D: international sustainability


True or False: a theory is stronger when it has fewer independent variables? - CORRECT
ANSWER - True



Kenneth Waltz - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Man, the state and war
2. three "images" of causation, he favors the 3rd image or systemic level
3. "Theory of International Politics" 1979

, John Lepgold - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Theory/ Policy Debate



Bismarck - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Realpolitik
2. Classical Realism


E H Carr - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. 20 years crisis (first to define realism)
2. says realism is the balance of power among a state


Hans Morgenthau - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Politics Among Nations (first IR theory
textbook)
2. Says that theory matters


Walt - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Alliances (balancing vs. bandwagoning)
2. Accused of "smuggling" threat by constructivists


Legro- Moravcsik - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Faux Realism (how does it relate to
realism?)


Robert Keohane - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. "After Hegemony" 1984
2. Neoliberalism


Alexander Wendt - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. "Anarch is what states make of it"
2. constructivism


Woodrow Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. new idealism (liberalism)
2. developed the League of Nations