Chapter 3

Question 1

Individualism

Answer 1

-The concept that rights and liberties of the individual are paramount within a society

Question 2

Cognitive Decision Making

Answer 2

-Making choices within the limits of what you consciously know

Question 3

Group Think

Answer 3

-How an individual’s membership in an organization/decision-making group influences his or her thinking and actions. In particular there are tendencies within a group to think alike, to avoid discordance, and to ignore ideas or information that threaten to disrupt the census.

Question 4

Rally Effect

Answer 4

-Tendency during a crisis of political and other leaders, legislators, and the public to give strong support to a chief executive and the policy that leader has adopted in response of the crisis

Question 5

Crisis v Noncrisis

Answer 5

• Crisis—occurs when decision makers are surprised by an event, feel threatened (especially militarily), and believe that they only have a short time to react.
• Noncrisis—involve a broad array of domestic actors trying to shape policy.

Question 6

Intermestic

Answer 6

-The merger of international and domestic concerns and decisions

Question 7

Sinocentrism

Answer 7

-A sense of superiority among the Chinese

Question 8

American Sensationalism

Answer 8

-The spread of their values would have a positive effect on other parts of the world

Question 9

Vertical Structure

Answer 9

-Subordinate units are substantially regulated by higher levels of authority

Question 10

Horizontal Structure

Answer 10

-There are few, if any, higher authorities, and power is fragmented

Question 11

Norms

Answer 11

-Influence the actors in systems from the global level to the local level

Question 12

Unipolar and hegemonic power: Could there be a “dark age” (LACK OF STATES)? if the unipolar system is threatened or changes actors? What are actors? Who are the actors?

Answer 12

• There could be a lack of states, world might go into a panic.
• Actors are organizations
• The states are the actors

Question 13

State-level analysis

Answer 13

• Assumes relative freedom of states in policy making
• Closer look at the making of national foreign policy
• Political Culture
• Polity type and actor analysis

Question 14

Individual-level analysis

Answer 14

• Cognitive factors—wishful thinking, heuristic devices
• Emotional factors—Jimmy Carter during Iran hostage crisis
• Biological Factors
• Gender

Question 15

Individual-level analysis

Answer 15

• Cognitive factors—wishful thinking, heuristic devices
• Emotional factors—Jimmy Carter during Iran hostage crisis
• Biological Factors
• Gender

Question 16

Unipolar system

Answer 16

• Central power establishes and enforces the rules
• Dominates military and economic instruments
• Settles disputes between subordinate units

Question 17

Bipolar system

Answer 17

• Acute hostility between the two poles
• Try to eliminate the other bloc by undermining it if possible and by fighting it if necessary
• Increase power relative to the other bloc

Question 18

Tripolar system

Answer 18

• Try to have good relations with both players, or minimally, try to avoid having hostile relations with both or other players
• Try to prevent close cooperation between the other two players

Question 19

Multipolar system

Answer 19

• Oppose any actor or alliance that threatens to become hegemonic
• Increase power ans minimally preserve your power
• Do not destabilize the system by destroying another major actor

Question 20

Economic realities

Answer 20

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