POLS 3053 International Relations

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POLS 3053International Relations

• Chapter 9 -- Contemporary Mainstream Approaches
  Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism
• Question Universe

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One version of neo-realism discussed in the text
is Kenneth Watzs __ realism, which offers a more
nuanced view of power and anarchy in the
international system.

• a. institutional d. reified
• b. complex e. structural
• c. pragmatic

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Neo-liberals like __ focus on relative and
absolute gains in determining whether to engage
in cooperative endeavors with other states.

• a. Hans Morgenthau d. Robert Jervis
• b. John Grieco e. John Mearshiemer
• c. Kenneth Waltz

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Two versions of neo-realism present prescriptive
policy analysis in the realm of security studies.
The two versions are called __ and __ realism.

• a. positive/negative d. offensive/defensive
  
• b. aggressive/passive e. old style/new style
• c. tactical/strategic

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David Baldwin has identified four varieties of
liberalism. One version is called __ liberalism,
which argues that democratic nations are more
likely to respect the rights of their own
citizens and less likely to go to war.

• a. commercial d. institutionalist
• b. republican e. relativist
• c. sociological

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David Baldwin has identified four varieties of
liberalism. __ liberalism advocates free trade
and a market or capitalist economy as the way
toward peace and prosperity.

• a. commercial d. institutionalist
• b. republican e. atomistic
• c. sociological

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David Baldwin has identified four varieties of
liberalism. __ liberalism focuses on the notion
of community and the process of interdependence
and cooperation.

• a. commercial d. institutionalist
• b. republican e. atomistic
• c. sociological

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David Baldwin has identified four varieties of
liberalism. __ liberalism draws on integrationist
scholarship to argue that states should pool
their resources to respond to regional problems.

• a. commercial d. institutionalist
• b. republican e. atomistic
• c. sociological

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The concept of complex interdependence includes
all of the following elements EXCEPT

• a. the decline of the efficacy of military force
  as a tool of statecraft.
• b. a new agenda of international issues with not
  distinction between high and low politics.
• c. a recognition of multiple channels for
  interaction among actors across national
  boundaries.
• d. a view of power as the combined economic,
  military, and cultural resources of the state.
• e. increasing linkages among states and non-state
  actors.

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__ are social institutions that are based on
agreed upon norms, principles, and decision
making procedures that govern the interactions of
various state and non-state actors in issue areas
such as the environment, nuclear proliferation,
or human rights.

• a. Institutions d. Issue networks
• b. Regimes e. Iron triangles
• c. Hegemons

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According to the authors, the debate between the
neo-realists and neo-liberals is

• a. deep philosophical divisions.
• b. driven by mutual antipathies.
• c. disagree on virtually every issue.
• d. not particularly contentious.
• e. a non-debate in which the two sides
  substantively agree on most issues.

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A major issue of contention in the
neo-realist/neo-liberal debate is

• a. that anarchy means that there is no common
  authority to enforce rules or laws constraining
  states or other actors.
• b. the notion that institutions have become
  significant in international relations.
• c. international cooperation will not happen
  unless states make it happen.
• d. the notion that international relations is a
  competitive process.
• e. all of the above.

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Both neo-realists and neo-liberals neglect the
fact that

• a. the international system is anarchic.
• b. cooperation is difficult to achieve.
• c. that states are value maximizers.
• d. political activities may be shifting away from
  the state.
• e. all of the above.

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According to neo-realists, people without food

• a. starve to death too quickly to be helped by
  international regimes.
• b. are politically quiescent.
• c. are inclined to seek change, and often that
  change will be violent.
• d. have the right to seek food by any means
  necessary.
• e. are absolutely, rather than relatively,
  deprived.

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Commercial neo-liberals believe that governments

• a. should not fight globalization or attempt to
  slow it down
• b. should move unilaterally to protect internal
  markets.
• c. seek to prevent the uneven flow of capital
  that might widen the gap between rich and poor.
• d. seek to maintain the primacy of the state in
  economic policy.
• e. all of the above.

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Social democratic neo-liberals believe that

• a. should not fight globalization or attempt to
  slow it down
• b. should move unilaterally to protect internal
  markets.
• c. seek to prevent the uneven flow of capital
  that might widen the gap between rich and poor.
• d. seek to maintain the primacy of the state in
  economic policy.
• e. all of the above.