POLS 3053 International Relations

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POLS 3053International Relations

• Chapter 19
• Transnational Actors and International
  Organizations in Global Politics

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Among the problems with a state-centric approach
to world politics include all of the following
EXCEPT

• analytical inconsistency in assuming states are
  located in an anarchical international system.
• ambiguity between different meanings of a state.

• the lack of similarity between countries.
• the centrality of the state.
• the difference between states and nations.

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Of the top 100 transnational companies with the
highest level of assets outside their home
country, __ were located in nine Western European
countries.

• 55
• 72

• 3
• 8
• 28

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Of the top 100 transnational companies with the
highest level of assets outside their home
country, __ were located in the United States.

• 55
• 72

• 3
• 8
• 28

5
Of the top 100 transnational companies with the
highest level of assets outside their home
country, __ were from Japan.

• 55
• 72

• 3
• 8
• 28

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In the 1980s, neither the United Kingdom nor
Argentina permitted direct trade with the other,
but companies merely routed exports through
Brazil to avoid penalties. This tactic is
described as

• rerouting.
• triangulation.

• arbitrage
• intra-firm trading.
• extraterritoriality.

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The strong global trend toward reduction of
corporate taxes is driven by the tendency of
international companies to practice __, in which
a company limits or closes down local production
and increase production in another country as a
result of a governments policies.

• competitive advantage
• transfer pricing

• triangulation
• extraterritoriality
• regulatory arbitrage

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The idea that transnational companies exist in
multiple places and consequently are nearly
impossible for any one government to control is
described in the text as

• networking.
• corporate emancipation.

• extraterritoriality.
• triangulation.
• the ghost in the machine effect.

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Groups are often described as terrorists to
express

• sanction.
• countenance.

• approval.
• neutrality.
• disapproval.

10
Legitimacy in using violence is increases by all
of the following EXCEPT

• when a group has widespread support.
• when political channels have been closed to them.
• when the group indiscriminately targets
  noncombatants.

• when the target government is exceptionally
  oppressive.
• when the violence is aimed exclusively at
  military targets.

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Amnesty International is an example of a(n)

• non-sovereign state.
• international governmental organization.
• social movement.

• international regime.
• non-governmental organization.

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The UN definition of an acceptable NGO includes

• supporting the aims and the work of the UN.
• democratic policy-making procedures.
• nonprofit orientation.

• does not advocate violence.
• all of the above.