Chapter 16 Quiz

1. What makes international relations (IR) different from comparative politics (CP)?

a. They are two different names for the same thing.

b. IR looks at cooperation between countries and other international actors; CP looks at conflict between them.

c. IR looks at cooperation and conflict between countries and other international actors; CP looks at multiple countries to get insights about what is happening inside those countries.

d. IR has global scope, whereas CP is better for regional analysis.

2. Which of the following is not an example of an attempt at political integration?

a. Holy Roman Empire

b. European Union (EU)

c. International Monetary Fund (IMF)

d. American Colonies under the Articles of Confederation

3. What is the economic basis of the gains from trade between nations called?

a. Protective Advantage

b. Competitive Advantage

c. Comparative Advantage

d. Absolute Advantage

4. Two of the founding members of the European Community that are leaders in the Eurozone are:

a. France and United Kingdom

b. Sweden and Germany

c. France and Germany

d. Sweden and United Kingdom

5. Social scientists that use game theory have a name for scenarios in which shared environmental goods are damaged because of a collective action problem. What is that name?

a. Tragedy of the commons

b. Tragedy of the earth

c. Coordination deficit

d. Coordination abomination

6. Which of the following is associated most directly with realism?

a. Different ends or goals of states are culturally constructed in myriad ways

b. Anarchic structure of the international system

c. Human rights as the centerpiece of foreign policy

d. The international system as fundamentally about global capital exploiting nature and labor

7. Which methodological approach often pairs with realism in international relations?

a. "Thick description"

b. Game theoretical modeling

c. Survey research

d. Trick question: there is no methodology in IR

8. Which of the following explanations for why a given country goes to war might come from a constructivist theorist, but not from a realist?

a. The international system is correcting an imbalance to preserve the global division of labor.

b. Members of country A nurse resentments against country B due to historical legacies.

c. Country A perceives country B as a potential threat.

d. The international system is chaotic, and order must be established.

9. Which of the following ideas fits best with liberalism?

a. Conflict is reduced if poor countries remember their place and accept dependent development.

b. International institutions can reduce the likelihood of conflict.

c. Authoritarian regimes share common features that reduce the chance of conflict between them.

d. Every country culturally constructs its goals and interests, and one cannot predict how these will be defined in any given case without cultural analysis.

10. Which of the following is a way in which subjects studied in comparative politics can impact international relations?

a. Regime type might influence the behavior of states.

b. The structure of the international system determines the regime types in core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral states.

c. Rational choice

d. Realism holds that the survival of states is their preeminent imperative.

11. Which of the following phenomena would ordinarily be considered "transnational"?

a. Identities of groups like the Quebecois or the Catalans, some of whom hope for independence from their states

b. Identities of groups of immigrants who have attachments to both their countries of origin and the states to which they have migrated

c. The state institutions in cases where potential separatist movements might arise, such as Canada or Spain

d. Fiscal policy of various Latin American states

12. Which of the following is a name for a potential disadvantage facing countries that send large numbers of migrants abroad?

a. Brain drain

b. Cash stash

c. Empty Nest Syndrome

d. None of the above

13. Why might it be especially difficult to solve problems of global warming?

a. We don't know if it is caused by human activity.

b. We know that it is not caused by human activity.

c. Political science cannot tell whether it is caused by human activity.

d. It is hard to convince individual states to adopt measures for the sake of a collective good when their individual incentives are to not align with this goal.

14. A common political response to foreign economic competition is:

a. Doubling down on trickle-down

b. Protectionism

c. Voluntarism

d. Invasion

15. Which of the following phrases would be most associated with liberalism?

a. Under conditions of anarchy, life is "nasty, brutish, and short."

b. There is between democratic republics the prospect for a "perpetual peace."

c. This is the "best of times, and the worst of times."

d. Anarchy "is what states make of it."

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