International Security Test Preparation
Course Introduction
International Security examines the key challenges, theories, and practices that shape the safety and stability of the global system. The course explores the nature of threats such as conflict, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber warfare, and transnational crime, analyzing the role of states, international organizations, and non-state actors in addressing these issues. Students will critically engage with concepts such as collective security, deterrence, and human security, and assess contemporary security dilemmas through case studies and policy analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of strategies for promoting international peace and security.
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International Politics Power and Purpose in Global Affairs 3rd Edition by Paul D'Anieri
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems and Questions in International Politics
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Q1) According to the text, the main schools of thought tend to seek explanations at which level of analysis?
A) System level
B) Analytical level
C) Individual level
D) State level
Answer: A
Q2) The goals of this textbook include all of the following except
A) to tell the reader what to believe.
B) to have a better understanding of international politics.
C) to make informed evaluations about how the world works.
D) to engage in intelligent debate about global politics.
Answer: A
Q3) Knowledge of history is important in studying contemporary politics because
A) history is replete with many lessons upon which we can draw.
B) history is a source of data that political scientists can use.
C) those who don't understand history are condemned to repeat it.
D) All of the above are true.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Historical Evolution of International Politics
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Q1) What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?
A) Treaty of Westphalia
B) Treaty of Versailles
C) Treaty of Maastricht
D) Treaty of Paris
Answer: B
Q2) Leaders after World War I sought to prevent future wars through
A) collective security.
B) national building.
C) financial reparations.
D) appeasement.
Answer: A
Q3) The idea of collective security failed because of all of the following except A) European fatigue with war following World War I.
B) isolationism.
C) the hope that others would deal with German expansion.
D) disintegration of the British Empire.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Theories of International Relations: Realism and Liberalism
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Q1) Complex interdependence consists of
A) a balance of power.
B) state sovereignty.
C) multiple channels of interaction.
D) anarchy.
Answer: C
Q2) Both complex interdependence theory and liberal institutionalism see __________ as important and possible in international politics.
A) collaboration and cooperation
B) a balance of power
C) hegemonic stability
D) disarmament
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following does not apply to the democratic peace theory?
A) Liberal democratic states can solve disputes without going to war.
B) The theory focuses upon the state level of analysis.
C) Nongovernmental organizations are key actors in the international system.
D) What kind of government a state has is important in understanding its actions on the world stage.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Theories of International Relations: Economic
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Feminism
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Q1) According to economic structuralism,
A) an upper class person will have more in common with an upper class person in another country than with a lower class person in their own country.
B) an upper class person will have more in common with a lower class person in their own country than with an upper class person in another country.
C) international movements of workers based on their common interests have occurred frequently throughout history.
D) a successful transnational alliance of labor unions has occurred as a result of the oppression of the lower classes around the world.
Q2) If the other theories focus on power in international politics, constructivism focuses on
A) materialism.
B) purpose.
C) wealth. D) institutions.
Q3) How would each of the major theories discussed in this chapter explain the existence of inequality in society?
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Chapter 5: The State, Society, and Foreign Policy
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Q1) Across the developed world, voting behavior theorists have shown that
A) the more education one has, the greater likelihood one will vote.
B) participation in elections decreases as citizens age.
C) members of the working class vote more often than those in the middle class.
D) voting participation increases with age.
Q2) What are the two most important objections to the subject of national interest?
Q3) Which of the following is a recent example of the "CNN effect" at work?
A) The ability of media conglomerates to hack into private persons' email and phone communications
B) The ability of a small NGO to place the Lord's Resistance Army on the international agenda
C) The broadcasting of pictures of starving children in Ethiopia encouraging George H. W. Bush to send troops to provide humanitarian aid
D) None of the above is true.
Q4) According to the textbook, the definition of the state is the A) territorial boundaries of a country.
B) government and political system of a country.
C) political control of the military.
D) executive branch of the government.
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Chapter 6: Bureaucracies, Groups, and Individuals in the Foreign Policy Process
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Q1) In deciding how to kill bin Laden, the use of U.S. Navy SEALs offered which of the following rewards?
A) Bystander deaths would be minimized.
B) Vital intelligence might be collected.
C) Verification of bin Laden's identity and death.
D) All of the above were apparent rewards.
Q2) The concept in which leaders will take risks in order to protect what they have is known as
A) status quo bias.
B) unmotivated bias.
C) cognitive dissonance.
D) bolstering.
Q3) Although the president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Congress passed the __________ in order to reassert congressional control over going to war.
A) Appropriations Bill
B) War Powers Resolution
C) Pentagon Papers
D) Kyoto Agreement
Q4) What is cognitive dissonance? What problems can it cause in decision making?
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Chapter 7: International Organizations and Transnational Actors
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Q1) Which of the following countries has not adopted the euro?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Great Britain
D) Germany
Q2) In liberal theory, international organizations address which of the following problems for states trying to solve collective action problems?
A) Transaction costs
B) Monitoring
C) Information gathering
D) All of the above are true.
Q3) The __________ branch of the EU represents the governments of the member states.
A) European Commission
B) Council
C) European Parliament
D) European Court of Justice
Q4) Describe the organization of the EU and the responsibilities of each section.
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Q5) What are the primary objectives of the reforms of the United Nations? Which reforms are more likely to succeed?
Chapter 8: International Insecurity and the Causes of War and Peace
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Q1) A conflict between organized groups within a nation-state is known as a A) territorial imperative.
B) failed state.
C) domestic disturbance.
D) civil war.
Q2) How does expected utility theory explain seemingly irrational decisions, such as Saddam Hussein's decision in 1991 not to withdraw forces from Kuwait?
A) It cannot explain these irrational decisions.
B) It explains these decisions by blaming flawed decision making.
C) In these types of decisions, the decision maker was choosing between a certain loss and a possible victory.
D) In these types of decisions, the decision maker was motivated by something other than expected utility.
Q3) The United States uses land mines
A) to help defend Israel from Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
B) to help defend South Korea from a possible invasion by North Korea.
C) to help defend Iraq from Iran.
D) to help limit illegal immigration from Mexico.
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Chapter 9: The Use of Force
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Q1) Chemical weapons can include all of the following except A) blistering agents.
B) riot control agents.
C) choking agents.
D) nerve agents.
Q2) Low-tech weapons have proliferated in recent years because of falling prices. The prices have fallen as a result of
A) new ways to produce these weapons.
B) intense competition in the global arms industry.
C) a reduction in the need for such weapons.
D) too few conflicts that require these weapons.
Q3) All of the following can be considered an objective of terrorism except A) waging a holy war.
B) defeating the enemy on the field of battle.
C) destroying the capitalist system.
D) driving out the enemy from the land.
Q4) Why are many countries developing high-tech weaponry, such as drones and precision guided missiles? What are the benefits of using such weaponry? What are the potential costs or disadvantages of possessing such weapons?
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Chapter 10: Fundamentals of International Political Economy
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Q1) What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt' program to resolve economic problems during the Great Depression?
A) Fair Deal
B) Square Deal
C) New Deal
D) Raw Deal
Q2) The rise in the amount of cross-border movements of goods, money, people, and ideas is known as
A) globalization.
B) international political economy.
C) comparative advantage.
D) balance of trade.
Q3) Approximately what percentage of the clothing sold in the United States is manufactured elsewhere?
A) 35 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 95 percent
Q4) Why do feminists argue that the costs of globalization are unevenly distributed?
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Chapter 11: The Globalization of Trade and Finance
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Q1) In much of the Third World, where labor is plentiful, labor and industries that rely on abundant labor
A) support free trade.
B) oppose free trade.
C) do not have an opinion regarding free trade.
D) support free trade with limited protectionist measures.
Q2) Which of the following reasons explained Greece's difficulty in financing its debt?
A) Greece's abandoning of the euro in exchange for the drachma
B) The global recession
C) Higher interest rates
D) Both options B and C are true.
Q3) What can exacerbate a debt crisis if the debtor country borrows in dollars?
A) A loss in the value of the debtor's currency relative to the dollar
B) Collapse of the floating exchange rate
C) Conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund
D) Nature of the two-level game in which domestic politics trumps repayment of loans
Q4) What are the competing costs and benefits of globalization?
Q5) Why does the text argue that states have lost control over globalization?
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Chapter 12: The Problem of Global Inequality
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Q1) Although state planning increased production, the failure of state socialism resulted from the
A) expansion of foreign indebtedness.
B) lack of innovation.
C) absence of democracy.
D) failure to develop international markets for goods.
Q2) The Gender Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme, measures the economic equality of men and women. Which of the following countries is considered as low-ranking on this index?
A) Australia
B) Norway
C) Niger
D) United States
Q3) In much of the post-World War II period, development aid focused on all of the following, except
A) infrastructure.
B) short-term alleviation of poverty.
C) technical know-how needed for development.
D) investment funds.
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Chapter 13: International Law, Norms, and Human Rights
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Q1) In the war on terror, are drone strikes legal according to international law? Compare and contrast the legal arguments for and against the use of such strikes.
Q2) One of the first international treaties that focused on the conduct of war, especially in terms of treatment of prisoners, is called the
A) Geneva Conventions.
B) Maastricht Treaty.
C) Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
D) Landmine Ban Treaty.
Q3) The International Court of Justice consists of
A) 10 judges, including two each from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
B) 20 judges, including one each from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
C) a panel of 3 judges per case, including one from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
D) 15 judges, including one each from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Q4) What are the various sources of international law?
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Chapter 14: The Global Environment and International Politics
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Q1) Discuss some of the main barriers to environmental cooperation among countries? What confounds a permanent resolution of the climate change problem the world faces?
Q2) Which two countries together account for nearly 90 percent of global ethanol production?
A) Brazil and Canada
B) United States and China
C) United States and Brazil
D) Russia and Canada
Q3) What was the primary reason that successive U. S. presidents have not submitted the Kyoto Protocol for Senate ratification?
A) The economic cost of the agreement was prohibitively expensive.
B) Not enough Senators are convinced of the science behind "global warming."
C) China and India, as major greenhouse gas emitters, are not party to the Kyoto Protocol.
D) None of the above is true.
Q4) What were the major factors that enabled the world's leading countries to deal effectively with the ozone depletion problem in the late 1980s?
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Chapter 15: Conclusion: Power and Purpose in a Changing World
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Q1) Most assume that Chinese hegemony will be
A) characterized by cooperation.
B) better for the third world.
C) helpful in the creation of agreements aimed at the protection of the environment.
D) much less benevolent.
Q2) The book offers all of the following goals except
A) expression of a single, unified theory to explain all of international politics.
B) improving understanding of international politics.
C) evaluating important questions.
D) engaging in active debate on political issues.
Q3) As a result of the blurring between international and domestic security, many countries have responded by passing controversial laws that have
A) delegated efforts to combat terrorism to international police forces.
B) encouraged negotiated settlements with terrorist organizations.
C) eroded civil liberties and human rights.
D) eliminated all barriers to the flow of trade and finance across states.
Q4) What are some of the ways in which power and purpose are changing?
Q5) How has terrorism changed the way we deal with international politics?
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