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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Are There Enduring Logics of Conflict and Cooperation 1 in World Politics?

Chapter 2 Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques 12

of the Trade Chapter 3 From Westphalia to World War I 22 Chapter 4 The Failure of Collective Security and World War II 32 Chapter 5 The Cold War 42 Chapter 6 Conflict and Cooperation in the Post–Cold War World 53 Chapter 7 Current Flashpoints 63 Chapter 8 Globalization and Interdependence 73 Chapter 9 The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors 84 Chapter 10 What Can We Expect in the Future? 95 Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation An Introduction to Theory and History 10e Joseph Nye, David Welch (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) 1 / 4

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CHAPTER 1

Are There Enduring Logics of Conflict and Cooperation in World Politics?

Multiple-Choice Questions

• In Medieval Europe, people had often had multiple political obligations and loyalties—ones to local

lords, maybe distant nobles. Some independent city-states existed, but such statuses could change. What sort of system of governance does this sound like to you?

• one similar to present day world politics, where dual citizenship is allowed in many countries,

and people may have obligations to transnational corporations, as well as governments

• an anarchy
• a classic feudal system of world politics
• an anarchic system of states

Correct Answer: c

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• In a world imperial system,
• states are empowered to set their own policies, and there is no higher authority above them.
• two major powers share nearly equal control over the world.
• human loyalties and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundaries.
• one government has authority over most of the world.

Correct Answer: d

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• When Thomas Hobbes referred to the “state of nature,” he was describing
• a feudal system in which people are broadly accepting of their rulers.
• a system of states that has achieved a state of peace through equal balance of power.
• a situation characterized by the absence of a higher authority that is able to enforce order.
• a preindustrial stage of economic development.

Correct Answer: c

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

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• Which of the following summarizes what most sets international politics apart from domestic politics,

whether at a national or local level?

• Domestic law enforcement officers rarely, if ever, operate in hostile, chaotic environments, in

the same way that militaries do on the world stage.

• In international relations, ethical theory is of greater importance than in domestic politics, since

the world has a weak sense of community and few corresponding norms.

• In international politics, military strength always make right, no matter what any scholar says

to the contrary.

• The international system is more anarchic by nature, given that some states will always be

stronger than others, and no ultimate authority exists to always check or control their actions.

Correct Answer: d

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• Which of the following statements would appear to be more closely associated with the realist

approach to international politics?

• The lack of an ultimate governing authority in world politics means the world faces a

constant state of war, even when the world seems to be at peace on a surface level.

• The central actors in international politics are states, all seeking, above other considerations,

to protect their interests and ensure their own survival.

• The difference between domestic and international politics is frequently overstated, given the

increasing importance of global economic interdependence.

• International institutions are not as strong as state actors but can have a measurable effect on

the political system.

Correct Answer: b

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• Liberal theorists argued, prior to World War I, that war seemed obsolete in part because countries could

not afford it. Their arguments against war did not stop there, however. Some of their other arguments even won popularity again in the 1970s. What did these include?

• the idea that changes in the balance of power were never a true cause of conflict between states
• ideas about using smarter diplomatic means of shifting regional balances of power
• the idea that international institutions would come to dominate world politics over time
• arguments involving the increasing economic interdependence of states, and the increasing of

transnational social and political ties

Correct Answer: a

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Analyze It

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• Some scholars of the realist school have looked at the modern state of international politics, and

suggested that a world built upon sovereign states may be on its way out. Why might this be?

• because more people are realizing, given the ease with which information crosses borders, that

state power is socially constructed

• because transnational problems, including climate change, shifting values, and the spread of

disease, are threatening state power

• because greater economic interdependence and increasing transnational problems are bound to

lead to a one-world government

• because a revolution in communications and social media, has led to a rapid decline in acceptance

of state power worldwide

Correct Answer: b

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• Which of the following would be more important in regard to drawing lessons from history and

applying them to current international events and problems?

• a reliance on historical accounts that includes the most seemingly factual information, presented

in neutral fashion

• an awareness of how greatly the world has changed over time, and that some concerns of the

present, such as the role of nonstate actors and economic matters, were not concerns in earlier eras.

• an awareness of how the international, anarchic system of states is a relatively new thing,

historically speaking, with almost nothing resembling it in earlier eras

• an awareness of how accounts of past international wars or incidents are influenced by the values

and concerns of historians

Correct Answer: d

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.2: Explain how history can help us understand international politics today.

Topic: The Peloponnesian War

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• Despite being adherents to highly different approaches to the study of world politics, an attempt to

devise more deductive, scientific theories led neorealists and neoliberals to

• put more of an emphasis on cultural and ideological changes in world politics.
• soften their adherence to the lines that seemed to divide classical liberal and realist theories.
• increase the simplicity and elegance of international relations theory, but at the cost of discarding

much of the complexity of classical realism and liberalism.

• devise an entirely new paradigm or approach to world politics, which came to be known as

constructivism.

Correct Answer: c

Learning Objective: L.O. 1.1: Identify the distinctive features of a sovereign state system and their implications for cooperation and conflict.

Topic: What Is International Politics?

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Analyze It

• Which of the following can be said to be true of constructivist thought?
• Like liberal and realistic theory, it always puts state actors at the center of international politics.
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