Question 1

What statesman declared, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Neville Chamberlain. 
B)  Winston Churchill. 
C)  Franklin Roosevelt. 
D)  Harry Truman.

Question 2

What do we call those who believe that that there are no truths and that what is right or wrong varies from person to person or from society to society?

Accepted Answer

A)  Relativists. 
B)  Positivists. 
C)  Constructivists. 
D)  Neoliberals.

Question 3

What is meant by "methodology"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rules and procedures to build good theory and evaluate its accuracy. 
B)  The manner in which theorists predict events. 
C)  The assumptions that theorists make in approaching a problem. 
D)  The quantitative tools available to scientists in theorizing about global politics.

Question 4

Which of the following was a pioneer of realism?

Accepted Answer

A)  John Locke. 
B)  Adam Smith. 
C)  Niccolo Machiavelli. 
D)  John Stuart Mill.

Question 5

What type of institutions do neoliberals believe can provide guidelines, norms, and rules that are acceptable to states and allow the orderly management of particular issues?

Accepted Answer

A)  International regimes. 
B)  Nongovernmental organizations. 
C)  Alliances. 
D)  Transnational corporations.

Question 6

Which of the following was a pioneer of the behavioral revolution in global politics?

Accepted Answer

A)  J. David Singer. 
B)  Hedley Bull. 
C)  Hans Morgenthau. 
D)  Kenneth Waltz.

Question 7

On which level(s) of analysis do liberals focus?

Accepted Answer

A)  System. 
B)  Individual and system. 
C)  Individual and unit. 
D)  Unit and system.

Question 8

Which of the following is not a key concept in realist thought?

Accepted Answer

A)  Relative gains. 
B)  Power. 
C)  International organizations. 
D)  Security.

Question 9

What do we call theory that deals with questions of "right" and "wrong"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Prescriptive. 
B)  Normative. 
C)  Postpositivist. 
D)  Empirical.

Question 10

Which type of theory makes use of "correlations" and "probabilities"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Predictive theory. 
B)  Postmodern theory. 
C)  Normative theory. 
D)  Explanatory theory.

Question 11

What group of scholars, including Hedley Bull, argue that there exists a genuine international society of states?

Accepted Answer

A)  The English School 
B)  Neoliberalism. 
C)  Neorealism. 
D)  Marxism.

Question 12

What is the central issue involved in the "Third Debate"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Whether or not one can identify patterned behavior in global politics. 
B)  Whether or not history is cyclical or linear. 
C)  Whether or not leaders can behave in a moral fashion. 
D)  Whether or not there is an objective reality that can be observed.

Question 13

What is the most important unit of analysis Marxism?

Accepted Answer

A)  States. 
B)  Individuals. 
C)  Classes. 
D)  Armed forces.

Question 14

What do we mean when we call theory "strategic simplification"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Theory provides detailed understanding of specific events. 
B)  Theory only points to factors that theorists believe are important. 
C)  Theory is especially helpful in clarifying the causes of war. 
D)  Theory is only necessary for understanding reasonably simple problems.

Question 15

What is the meaning of the claim that "Theory is always for someone, and for some purpose"?

Accepted Answer

A)  The pursuit of power in global politics is immoral. 
B)  Morality underlies all human behavior in the global system. 
C)  Language and theory are forms of power in global politics. 
D)  It is difficult to achieve theoretical consensus about the causes of conflict.

Question 16

Which of the following is an example of an "emergent property"?

Accepted Answer

A)  The absence of hot war between the US and Soviet Union. 
B)  The decision of President Roosevelt to declare war on Japan in 1941. 
C)  The persistence of President Bush in carrying on the war in Iraq. 
D)  The State Department's propensity to favor diplomacy over military action.

Question 17

Which was the most important and durable of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Accepted Answer

A)  Freedom of the seas. 
B)  A league of nations. 
C)  National self-determination. 
D)  The return of Alsace-Lorraine to France.

Question 18

What do we call theory that depends on the observations of facts?

Accepted Answer

A)  Prescriptive. 
B)  Normative. 
C)  Postpositivist. 
D)  Empirical.

Question 19

Which of the following in part of the "Kantian Triangle"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Human nature. 
B)  Disarmament. 
C)  Economic interdependence. 
D)  Religious and ethnic extremism.

Question 20

Which of the following resulted from the behavioral revolution in the study of international relations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Abandoning the study of states as the central task of the field. 
B)  Turning from a focus on the role of power to a focus on norms. 
C)  The rigid separation of empirical and normative theory. 
D)  Less reliance on empirical methods.

Exam 2: An Introduction to Global Politics: Change and Continuity

What statesman declared, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"?

What do we call those who believe that that there are no truths and that what is right or wrong varies from person to person or from society to society?

What is meant by "methodology"?

Which of the following was a pioneer of realism?

What type of institutions do neoliberals believe can provide guidelines, norms, and rules that are acceptable to states and allow the orderly management of particular issues?

Which of the following was a pioneer of the behavioral revolution in global politics?

On which level(s) of analysis do liberals focus?

Which of the following is not a key concept in realist thought?

What do we call theory that deals with questions of "right" and "wrong"?

Which type of theory makes use of "correlations" and "probabilities"?

What group of scholars, including Hedley Bull, argue that there exists a genuine international society of states?

What is the central issue involved in the "Third Debate"?

What is the most important unit of analysis Marxism?

What do we mean when we call theory "strategic simplification"?

What is the meaning of the claim that "Theory is always for someone, and for some purpose"?

Which of the following is an example of an "emergent property"?

Which was the most important and durable of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?

What do we call theory that depends on the observations of facts?

Which of the following in part of the "Kantian Triangle"?

Which of the following resulted from the behavioral revolution in the study of international relations?