Deck 1: What Is International Political Economy

Question 1

Pick a recent news article dealing with an IPE topic and identify the different levels of analysis (individual, state/societal, interstate, OR global) that help explain the main issue the article deals with. Somewhere in the essay explain how much the levels of analysis help you understand the issue.

Answer 1

No Answer.

Question 2

Why do Balaam and Dillman think that the international order established after World War II is threatened? What trends do they point to suggesting that this order is weakening?

Answer 2

No Answer.

Question 3

How do detractors of President Trump characterize his personal disposition and personality traits? Explain the extent to which Trump's behavior impacts the global political economy.

Answer 3

No Answer.

Question 4

What evidence is there that democracy and liberal values in Europe, the United States, and Turkey are threatened? In what ways might these fears be overblown? Include in your essay a statement about the extent to which IPE helps you explain this issue.

Question 5

Which of the following is mismatched?

A) hard power: military weapons
B) soft power: diplomacy
C) hard power: university study abroad programs
D) soft power: movies exported to other countries

Question 6

Who is most closely associated with the concept of the levels of analysis?

A) Kenneth Waltz
B) Henry Kissinger
C) Susan Strange
D) Donald Trump

Question 7

Which of the following is mismatched when it comes to the levels of analysis?

A) President Trump's outlook on climate change: the state-society level
B) President Trump's preference for authoritarian leaders: the individual level
C) Russian intervention in Ukraine: the interstate level
D) The U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore: the interstate level

Question 8

Which of the following statements related to IPE perspectives is incorrect?

A) Liberal economic values were the basis of the globalization campaign.
B) Mercantilists view the state as the dominant actor in the international system based on the principle that it has sovereignty authority over affairs within its territory.
C) Structuralists focus on class divisions, exploitation, and imperialism that are not unique to capitalist societies.
D) Constructivists reject the argument that states are becoming more polarized and authoritarian due to shifting cultural norms and values.

Question 9

A scholar studying how climate change, free trade, and changes in technology constrain the choices of political elites is focusing on which level of analysis?

A) The individual level
B) The state/societal level
C) The interstate level
D) The global level

Question 10

Which of the following is not a factor that would be considered at the state/societal level of analysis?

A) The political influence of U.S. banks and farmers
B) The nature of a country's government institutions
C) The worldview of Donald Trump
D) The distribution of wealth between different classes in a country

Question 11

Which of the following is not usually regarded as typical of a populist-authoritarian political leader?

A) Attacks on the press and journalists
B) Attacks on human rights and individual freedoms
C) A xenophobic outlook about migrants and refugees
D) Support for globalization

Question 12

In which of the following European countries in late 2017 did the largest populist party hold only a handful of seats in the national parliament?

A) Hungary
B) Germany
C) France
D) Austria

Question 13

Which statement about European laws on the wearing of religious clothing in public is incorrect?

A) Bulgaria has banned the wearing of the full-face veil in public.
B) In Germany, government employees cannot wear a facial covering at work.
C) French courts overturned municipal bans on the wearing of the burkini in public.
D) The European Court of Justice has ruled that European employers have an unqualified right to bar their employees from wearing Islamic headscarves at work.

Question 14

U.S. president Donald Trump has promoted all of the following policies except

A) strengthening relations with traditional U.S. allies in Europe.
B) increasing the level of U.S. trade protectionism.
C) confronting North Korea over its development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
D) pulling the United States out of the Paris Accord on climate change.