Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

Which of the following is an example of an institution?

A)The Chief Executive Office of a multinational corporation.
B)The United States invaded Iraq to end its weapons-of-mass-destruction program.
C)A state senator.
D)The United Nations.
E)A politician's desire to be elected president.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Who are the primary actors in liberalism?

A)Individuals.
B)States.
C)International organizations.
D)Multinational corporations.
E)No single actor is the primary one.

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of an interest?

A)A politician is elected president.
B)A politician collects campaign donations to be elected president.
C)Individuals vote for a politician to be president.
D)A politician is put on the ballot in all the districts in which he or she is running.
E)A politician wants to be president.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

What are the primary actors in realism?

A)Individuals.
B)Bureaucracies.
C)States.
D)International organizations.
E)Multinational corporations.

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of an interaction?

A)A country lowers the taxes it has on imports.
B)A country decides to dump pollutants into the ocean.
C)A country decides to lower taxes on imports due to a threat from another country.
D)A country decides to abolish its military.
E)A country decides to colonize Mars.

Question 6

When constructing a model about how things work,it is necessary that we:

A)take everything into account.
B)make assumptions that simplify the processes we are examining.
C)use mathematics to model things properly.
D)completely understand all of human history first.
E)try and create something that will be right 100 percent of the time.

Question 7

What is cooperation?

A)An interaction that makes at least one actor better off without making the others worse off.
B)An interaction in which actors must choose outcomes that make all the parties better off.
C)Two states dividing the spoils of conflict they had with a third actor.
D)Two states threatening conflict with each other over some policy dispute.
E)A single state imposing its will upon another state.

Question 8

Which of the following examples employs realist logic?

A)The United States invaded Iraq because George W.Bush wanted to exceed his father's accomplishments.
B)The United States invaded Iraq to remove the threat of weapons of mass destruction,which were a security risk.
C)The United States invaded Iraq because it was afraid the United Nations would stop the war from happening.
D)The United States invaded Iraq because multinational corporations wanted access to Iraq's oil.
E)The United States invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein did not find the threats of the United States to be credible.

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of bargaining?

A)A state is deciding whether to invade another state.
B)Two states are deciding how to divide up territory.
C)Two states are deciding how to cooperate on research.
D)A state unilaterally reduces its production of carbon dioxide.
E)A state takes it upon itself to eliminate the threat of piracy along major trade routes.

Question 10

What is anarchy for realists?

A)The result of meddling by institutions like the United Nations.
B)People doing whatever they want to do.
C)No moral code.
D)A lack of ethics for international organizations.
E)The lack of central authority to make and enforce laws upon states.

Question 11

About half of the world's population,around 3 billion people:

A)live in countries under threat of nuclear destruction.
B)have been victims of terrorist attacks.
C)suffer from human rights abuses.
D)live in environmentally dangerous areas.
E)live on less than $2 a day.

Question 12

What is the primary goal of actors in realism?

A)Money.
B)Power.
C)Conflict.
D)Food.
E)Ideology.

Question 13

Which of the following examples employs liberal logic?

A)Great Britain and Germany went to war with each other because they were historical rivals.
B)Great Britain and Germany went to war with each other because Germany was rapidly gaining power.
C)Great Britain and Germany went to war with each other because they had cultural differences that could not be resolved peacefully.
D)Great Britain and Germany went to war with each other because of a failure to recognize a common interest in peace.
E)Great Britain and Germany went to war with each other because capitalism makes war between states inevitable.

Question 14

Which of the following is an example of cooperation?

A)Two states agreeing to invade a third state.
B)A state banning the language of a minority group within its territory.
C)Two states agreeing to similar sets of traffic laws in order to make border crossings more fluid.
D)A state making a concession to a rebel group in an effort to end civil war.
E)Two states raising taxes on imports so they will become less reliant on each other.

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of the transnational level in action?

A)The president of France calling for domestic protests to end.
B)The United States calling upon Canada to stop subsidizing its timber industry.
C)Al Qaeda declaring war against the United States,western Europe,and several countries in the Middle East.
D)Homeland security stopping a plot by domestic,right-wing extremists.
E)The president of the Republic dissolving parliament in Italy.

Question 16

A probabilistic claim is a statement that an event will:

A)occur with certainty.
B)not occur.
C)occur only a certain percentage of the time.
D)occur only under the right conditions.
E)occur only if the researchers believe it will happen.

Question 17

Why might Europe provide a positive example for the direction of international relations?

A)The continent has never had a major war.
B)The continent has overcome devastating wars in the past to become a peaceful area.
C)Generally,European economies do not suffer recessions.
D)Europe has not experienced any major terrorist attacks in the last 30 years.
E)The people of Europe rarely find anything objectionable about which to protest.

Question 18

What do theories NOT do?

A)Describe the world.
B)Offer predictions about the world.
C)Provide answers to puzzles we have.
D)Test hypotheses we have about the world.
E)Help to prescribe policy responses.

Question 19

What is a theory?

A)A guess about the current state of the world.
B)An educated guess about how two events relate to each other.
C)A logically consistent set of statements that explain a phenomenon of interest.
D)An unproven hypothesis.
E)An unprovable set of assumptions that establish untestable propositions about the world.

Question 20

Bargaining is an interaction in which:

A)actors must choose outcomes that make one better off at the expense of another.
B)actors must choose outcomes that make all the parties better off.
C)actors are forced into situations that hurt everyone as equally as possible.
D)actors are forced into outcomes that help everyone.
E)one actor decides who should benefit and who should be harmed.

Question 21

If two states work together to lower trade barriers and improve their shared environment,the theoretical construct that best understands this phenomenon is:

A)realism.
B)liberalism.
C)constructivism.
D)cooperation.
E)bargaining.

Question 22

Are you more likely to be involved in a conflict today or if you were alive 200 years ago? Why are you more or less secure than before?

Question 23

Is realism realistic? Explain why you think the framework is suitable for international relations,or,if you do not think it is,does liberalism or constructivism make more sense?

Question 24

What dominates interaction between actors under constructivism?

A)Norms.
B)Security.
C)Scarcity.
D)Power.
E)Capitalism.

Question 25

Which international relations theory would most agree with the idea that the goals of actors are determined by their culture and identities?

A)Realism.
B)Liberalism.
C)Constructivism.
D)Cooperation.
E)Bargaining.

Question 26

Using what you know about the U.S.invasion of Iraq in 2003,does liberalism or realism explain the situation better?

Question 27

Describe a situation where you have bargained with your friends (or classmates).Contrast that situation with another situation in which you attempted cooperation with your peers.Was one situation easier to resolve than another? Why?

Question 28

If one state is unwilling to ally itself with another because that would make the potential ally too powerful,this dynamic is best understood through what theoretical lens?

A)Realism.
B)Liberalism.
C)Constructivism.
D)Cooperation.
E)Bargaining.

Question 29

Which theory of international relations would be best suited to understanding a norm of communication between heads of state?

A)Realism.
B)Liberalism.
C)Constructivism.
D)Cooperation.
E)Bargaining.

Question 30

Take a recent example of an international situation you read about in the news.Explain the events using the framework of interests,interactions,and institutions.