POLS 3053 International Relations

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POLS 3053International Relations

• Chapter 12Alternative Approaches to
  International Theory

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A(n) __ theory is one that sees the world as
something external to our theories of the world.

• a. constitutive d. critical
• b. normative e. hypothetical
• c. explanatory

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A(n) __ theory is one that hinks our theories
actually help construct the world.

• a. constitutive d. critical
• b. normative e. hypothetical
• c. explanatory

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Theories claiming that the natural and social
worlds are the same are described as

• a. idealistic d. deductive
• b. naturalistic e. inductive
• c. empirical

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A(n) __ position is one that thinks that all
truth claims (about some feature of the world)
can be judged true or false.

• a. post-modernist d. foundationalist
• b. absolutist e. anti-foundationalist
  
• c. empiricist

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A(n) __ thinks that truth claims cannot be
determined because there is never a neutral basis
for such judgments.

• a. empiricist d. absolutist
• b. foundationalist e. anti-foundationalist
• c. post-modernist

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Historical sociologist __s book Coercion,
Capital, and European States, AD 900-1990, argued
that the nation-state dominated because of its
role in fighting wars.

• a. Eric Hobsbawn d. Seyom Brown
• b. Charles Tilly e. Michael Mann
• c. J.A. Hobson

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Historical sociologist __ is responsible for
developing the Ideological, Economic, Military,
and Political (IEMP) model of the sources of
state power.

• a. Eric Hobsbawn d. Seyom Brown
• b. Charles Tilly e. Michael Mann
• c. J.A. Hobson

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According to Chris Browns analysis of two
normative positions, __ is the view that the
central focus of any normative theory of world
politics should concentrate either on humanity as
a whole or on individuals.

• a. reductionism d. communitarianism
• b. humanism e. materialism
• c. cosmopolitanism

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According to Chris Browns analysis of two
normative positions, __ is the view that the
appropriate focus is the community, usually the
state.

• a. reductionism d. materialism
• b. cosmopolitanism e. communitarianism
• c. humanism

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Liberal feminist scholars like __ believe that if
we simply started to ask where are the women?
we would be able to see their presence and
importance to world politics, as well as the ways
in which their exclusion was presumed a natural
consequence of their biological or natural role.

• a. Camile Paglia d. Catherine MacKinnon
• b. J. Ann Tickner e. Andrea Dworkin
• c. Cynthia Enloe

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Stand-point feminist __ reformulated Hans
Morgenthaus famous six principles to show how
the seemingly objective rules of realism in
fact reflect male values and definitions of
reality, as opposed to female ones.

• a. J. Ann Tickner d. Andrea Dworkin
• b. Simon de Bouvier e. Bell Hooks
• c. Cynthia Enloe

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__ feminism critiques the basic distinction
between sex and gender, and states that
gender is doing.

• a. Post-colonial d. Perspective
• b. Stand-point e. Mothering theory
• c. Post-Modern

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__ feminism works at the intersection of class,
race, and gender on a global scale and especially
analyze the gendered effects of transnational
culture and the unequal division of labor in the
global political economy.

• a. Post-modern d. Liberal
• b. Post-colonial e. Structural
• c. Stand-point

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__ has been particularly influential in the past
25 years, and has been defined simply as
skepticism toward meta-narratives.

• a. Liberalism d. Deconstructionism
• b. Relativism e. Positivism
• c. Post-modernism

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The post-modernist __ opposed the positivist
assumption that knowledge was immune from the
workings of power, and argued instead that power
produces knowledge.

• a. Michel Foucault d. Jean-Paul Sartre
• b. Jacques Derrida e. Albert Camus
• c. Paul de Mann

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The concept of a genealogy is most commonly
associated with the work of

• a. Michel Foucault d. Jean-Paul Sartre
• b. Jacques Derrida e. Albert Camus
• c. Paul de Mann

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The idea of deconstruction is most commonly
associated with

• a. Michel Foucault d. Jean-Paul Sartre
• b. Jacques Derrida e. Albert Camus
• c. Paul de Mann

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__ is the political control, physical
occupation, and domination of people over another
people and their land for purposes of extraction
and settlement to benefit the occupiers.

• a. Imperialism d. Ethnic cleansing
• b. Colonialism e. Biopower
• c. Deconstructionism

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In his influential book Orientalism (1979 1993),
__ argued that knowledge and material power could
not be separated Western culture was
fundamentally entwined with imperialism and
specifically the domination of the Islamic world
of the Middle East.

• a. Edward Said d. Martin Peretz
• b. Noam Chomsky e. Samir al-Arryan
• c. Alexander Cockburn

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Algerian-born __s Wretched of the Earth (1967)
employed a psychological approach to suggest that
colonialism and Western stereotypes warped the
psyche of colonized subjects.

• a. Michel Foucault d. Franz Fanon
• b. Jean-Francois e. Albert Camus
• Lyotard
• c. Jean-Paul Sartre