Deck 1: Exploring World Politics

Question 1

An example of the "mirror image" phenomenon would be the fact that Americans and Europeans view each other favorably because they share a similar heritage.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

During the Cold War both the Soviet Union and the United States saw themselves as virtuous and peace loving, whereas the other side was seen as aggressive, untrustworthy, and ruled by a corrupt government. This phenomenon is known as

A) schematic reasoning.
B) cognitive dissonance.
C) interdependence.
D) mirror image.
E) globalization.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

When we stereotype individuals based on "stock" images that we have created about certain types of people such as 'absentminded professor' and 'shady lawyer' we are engaging in

A) cognitive dissonance.
B) psychological profiling.
C) schematic reasoning.
D) mirror image.
E) cognitive imaging.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Peter's Projection draws attention to the less developed countries of the Global South because it focuses on population.

Question 5

The study of how global actors' activities entail the exercise of influence to achieve and defend their goals and ideas, and how it affects the world at large is known as world politics.

Question 6

The purpose of the "upside down" projection is to

A) challenge the modern "Eurocentric" view of the globe and world affairs.
B) present a view of the world as it would appear to someone standing on the North Pole.
C) exaggerate the importance of Europe relative to the rest of the world.
D) provide a more accurate representation of each landmass in proportion to the others.
E) provide a viewpoint centered on Asia rather than Europe.

Question 7

When employing levels of analysis to make sense of the multiple causes that explains why international events occur the analyst chooses to focus on intergovernmental organizations or nongovernmental organizations.

Question 8

The conflict between Christianity and Islam during the Crusades is known as an enduring rivalry.

Question 9

A change in the characteristic pattern of interaction among the most active participants in world politics of such magnitude that it appears that one "global system" has replaced another is known as transformation.

Question 10

All of the following are examples of enduring rivalries except

A) Christianity/Islam during the Middle Ages
B) United States/Great Britain
C) United States/al Qaeda
D) Israel/Palestine
E) China/Russia

Question 11

Intergovernmental organizations are not considered global actors in their own right because they have no independent foreign policy-only that of its members.

Question 12

The absence of any authority capable of regulating the conduct of nation-states is referred to as anarchy.

Question 13

Most people resist unfamiliar information and ideas that are different from their usual way of viewing and thinking about world affairs.

Question 14

The different types of maps illustrated by the Mercator projection, Peter's projection, orthographic projection and the "upside down" projection

A) each portrays a different image of the distribution of the Earth's land surfaces and territory.
B) show how difficult it is to perfectly represent the three-dimensional globe on a two-dimensional piece of paper.
C) show how perceptions can distort even something as basic and seemingly objective as the size and location of the world's continents.
D) each highlights some feature of the globe while ignoring others.
E) All of the above are true.

Question 15

The United Nations is an example of an intergovernmental organization.

Question 16

A nation is an independent legal entity with a government exercising exclusive control over the territory and population it governs.

Question 17

The term "nation" and the term "state" mean the same thing.

Question 18

A projection of the world that retains directional accuracy, places Europe at the center, and uses two-thirds of the map to represent the northern half of the world is called a(n)

A) orthographic projection.
B) Mercator projection.
C) Peter's projection.
D) world-time view.
E) upside-down projection.

Question 19

Nonstate nations are ethnic groups living in a territory without exercising sovereign power.

Question 20

Who said "Politics is more difficult than physics"?

A) Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud
B) Kofi Annan
C) Bill Clinton
D) Albert Einstein
E) Walt Whitman

Question 21

Which of the following points to the emergence of a new global system?

A) New trade partnerships in Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific Rim
B) International organizations, such as the European Union and terrorist organizations that challenge the global system itself
C) Territorial conquest is no longer the states' foremost foreign policy goal.
D) Proliferation of nuclear weapons
E) All of the above are true.

Question 22

World politics can be studied from the individual, state, or global level of analysis. Write an in which you discuss the advantages and drawbacks of examining world politics from each of these three levels.

Question 23

In spring of 2011 the French legislature passed a law banning the burqa. Summarize the arguments both supporting and opposing this measure. How do our perceptions shape how we view the burqa? What is your opinion of this law? Would you support one in your own country?

Question 24

Former president Bush said of 9/11, "Night fell on a different world." Have the 9/11 terrorist attacks fundamentally changed the international system? Why or why not?

Question 25

What is a "state"?

Question 26

Explain how cognitive dissonance and schematic reasoning help us interpret large amounts of information about the world.

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT true of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)?

A) Members can be individuals or groups.
B) They exercise sovereignty.
C) They exert global influence on nation-states and intergovernmental organizations.
D) They include groups as diverse as Amnesty International and the Los Zetas drug cartel.
E) All of the above are true.

Question 28

The state level of analysis focuses on all the flowing state attributes except

A) number of nongovernmental organizations.
B) type of government.
C) level of economic power.
D) number of nationality groups.
E) level of military power.

Question 29

Explain the difference between a macropolitical and a micropolitical approach to understanding world politics. What are the advantages and disadvantages to each?

Question 30

Conflict resolution is especially difficult in situations involving enduring rivalries because

A) mirror images held by both sides tend to be self-confirming leading to a circle of deepening hostilities.
B) there is generally little trade or interaction between the two rivalries and, therefore, no way to increase familiarity.
C) globalization increases the ability of each side to use propaganda to greater effect.
D) war generally trumps diplomatic initiatives.
E) one side is usually disproportionately powerful.

Question 31

Give an example of an IGO and an NGO and briefly describe the purpose of each.

Question 32

The individual level of analysis emphasizes the

A) internal attributes of individual states.
B) personal and psychological motivations of decision makers and individuals.
C) distribution of resources within a state.
D) foreign policy processes of different types of governments.
E) most powerful nation states.

Question 33

What are the three levels of analysis, and how do they differ?

Question 34

Which of the following is true of major transformations?

A) One "global system" has replaced another.
B) Transformations have usually occurred after major wars.
C) They can be difficult to distinguish from temporary change.
D) Examples include World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.
E) All of the above are true.

Question 35

All of the following are tenets of state sovereignty except

A) territory under the states sole control.
B) unrestricted control of domestic affairs.
C) freedom to conduct foreign relations and negotiate treaties with other states.
D) the right to declare war against other nations.
E) no higher authority than a nation-state.

Question 36

According to the authors, "mutual misperceptions often fuel discord in world politics." As a result, "fostering peace is not simply a matter of bringing political leaders together in international summits or expanding cultural exchanges. Rather, it is a matter of changing deeply entrenched beliefs." Write an in which you: (a) describe the factors that influence the beliefs that people have of other countries; and (b) propose a series of steps that could be taken to reduce deeply entrenched misperceptions between rival countries.

Question 37

Periodic sequences of events that resemble patterns in earlier periods of world politics are referred to as

A) anarchy.
B) global systems.
C) cycles.
D) transformations.
E) globalization.