Midterm 1

Question 1

Conflict

Answer 1

Disharmony or opposition netween global actors.

War in Afghanistan, North Korea-South Korea relations, Darfur.

Resolved through negotiation. May escalate into violence under certain conditions.

Question 2

Cooperation

Answer 2

Global actors working together to achieve mutual benefits

UN, African Union, European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement

Question 3

International organization

Answer 3

A global institution comprised of states as members.

United Nations

Question 4

Nongovernmental organization

Answer 4

Association unaffiliated with local, state, or national government and established to achieve a specific goal; often an element of civil society

Question 5

Multinational corporation

Question 6

Globalization

Answer 6

Increasing general connectivity and interdependence globally.

Question 7

Fragmentation

Answer 7

Adherence to or embracing of regional and even local political authority, economic development, social and cultural associations.

More generally, the act, process, or result of breaking something into smaller pieces

Question 8

Nationalism

Answer 8

A love of, and pride in, one’s nation’s; the belief in one’s nation’s superiority and, often , in its related rights and privileges internationally.

Question 9

Hegemon

Answer 9

Predominant world power

Question 10

Systemic level of analysis

Question 11

Domestic Level of Analysis

Question 12

Individual Level of Analysis

Question 13

Prisoner’s Dilemma

Question 14

Realism

Question 15

Realpolitik

Answer 15

Interest-based (rather than ethics-based or ideals-based) foreign policy.

Question 16

Security dilemma

Question 17

Great Powers

Answer 17

Few states in the international system whose outstanding economic and military power set them qualitatively apart from the next tier of states

Question 18

Liberalism

Question 19

Social Contract

Answer 19

Agreements between people, groups, or states, in which the parties defer some autonomy to an authority they form to act on behalf of the group as a whole.

Question 20

Constructivism

Question 21

Feminism

Answer 21

One who believes in equality of the sexes

Question 22

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 22

1648 treaty that ended the 30 years war and marked the beginning of the modern international system by legitimizing the state as the ultimate sovereign authority over people and geographic territory.

Question 23

Sovereignty

Answer 23

Exclusive political authority over a defined territory and the people within it.

Question 24

Concert of Europe

Answer 24

A special system of consulation used by the great powers of Europe after the Napolenic Wars.

A great power could initiate international conferences when it believed that the security and peace of Europe were compromised.

Question 25

Bismarckian system

Question 26

American Revolution

Question 27

French Revolution

Question 28

Industrial Revolution

Question 29

The Corn Laws

Answer 29

A set of tariffs and other restrictions on agricultural imports that protected British landowners in the late 1700s and early 1800s. ## Footnote Repeal of these laws in 1846 helped facilitate a boom in international trade

Question 30

Sphere of influence

Answer 30

Region influenced by 1 great power. Dominant power does not have sovereignty but imposes its will over several neighboring states, restricting the maneuverability of local territorial leaders.

Question 31

Appeasement

Question 32

Munich Analogy

Question 33

Yalta meeting

Question 34

Containment

Answer 34

US foregin policy during the Cold War aimed at halting Soviet expansion through American military and economic power.

Question 35

Truman doctrine

Question 36

Marshall Plan

Question 37

Berlin Blockade

Question 38

Warsaw Pact

Question 39

Bretton Woods system

Question 40

NSC-68

Answer 40

Document prepared to counter the spread of international communism ## Footnote expansion of americas armed forces, adding an important military dimension to the economic and political means of containment

Question 41

Détente

Answer 41

French for 'relaxation of tensions'. Be referred to cooperation on areas such as arms control, trade, and technology.

Question 42

Glasnost

Answer 42

Russian for 'openness' referring to the political policies that followed Mikhail Gorbachev 1985 rise to power in the USSR.

Question 43

Perestroika

Answer 43

Mikhail policy for restricting the economy of the Soviet Union. Promoted democratization privatization of the economy and free markets.