Exam #2

Political Science 206 with Ball at Northern Michigan University

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According to the ATTL, in its dealings with other countries, the U.S. uses mostly:

Bilateral Relations

ATTR, what paradigm views international relations as a class struggle between the world's rich and poor rather than a contest between nation-states?

Globalist

During the "Cold War", what percentage of communist countries' foreign trade was with Western countries?

12%

Foreign policy scholars' "levels of analysis" which are "conditions external to the state that are present in the international system surrounding it"?

Systemic Factors

ATTR, for what does IGO stand?

Inter-governmental organization

Military, economic, or diplomatic interference by one country in another ocuntry's territory or internal affairs is called what?

Intervention

What countries border North Korea?

only South Korea, China, and Russia

What was NOT an assertion made in the readings?

There is no need to make trade-off decisions of the "guns versus butter" variety

True or False(ATTR): "International Politics is the study of who gets what, when, and how in the international arena."

TRUE

Three types of foreign policy

Macro-decisions
Micro-decisions
Crisis Decisions

Macro-decision Characteristics

relatively large/general concerns
designed to establish guidelines for "rule of thumb"
make an anticipated decision
lengthy time frame
large variety of domestic political actors

Micro-decision Characteristics

"administrative" decisions
May or may not involve element of surprise and lengthy deliberation
narrow in scope
low threat seriousness
lower levels of the government bureaucracy

Crisis Decision Characteristics

High degree of threat
Finite time frame to reach a decision
involvement of very highest level of foreign policy establishment in decision
Entails a sufficiently serious problem to command the intense, sustained attention of the top leadership

Unitary actor

a nation-state or
national government

Rational Actor Model Process

Define the situation
Specify the goal(s)
Consider all possible alternative means of achieving goal(s)
Select the final alternative calculated to maximize achievement of the goal(s)
Take the necessary action to implement the decision

Summitry

Meetings between heads of state

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Designed to facilitate the reduction of international trade barriers.

Universal Postal Union (UPU)

facilitates the flow of mail across national boundaries through fixing weight limits and maximum postage rates and developing procedures to expedite mail delivery

Specialized Agencies

No more than a dozen
each essentially a separate IGO
has own membership, budget, secretariat, and decision-making machinery

General Assembly

the main deliberative body in which the entire UN membership is represented and which is authorized by the Charter to deal with a broad range of political, economic, and social issues

Neofunctionalists

emphasize that certain sectors of intergovernmental cooperation are more likely candidates for spillover than others because they create not only a desire but a need for ever more ambitious cooperation across issue-areas

High Politics

refers to those issues involving the most crucial and the most controversial interests of states

Low Politics

refers to those issues that are relatively narrow, technical, and noncontroversial.

Transnational Relations

interactions between private individuals and groups across national boundaries, have existed since the very beginnings of the nation-state system

Human rights

protection under international law to all individuals on the globe, regardless of whether they are aliens or nationals

Expropriation

Government seizure of foreign-owned property or assets.

Customary rules

practices that have been widely accepted as binding by states over time as evidenced by repeated usage.

hegemon

LEADER

Theory of hegemonic stability

large scale wars involving major powers tend to produce among the victors a dominant power (hegemon) capable of maintaining a degree of order over the international system as a whole.

Ethnopolitical conflicts

involving matters of racial, cultural, or religious group identity.

War

Sustained armed combat between the organized military forces of at least two countries

Embargoes

refusing to export needed goods to another state

Boycotts

Refusing to import goods from another state

Game theory

nature of international bargaining and the way in which cooperation can occur amid conflict

Zero-Sum game

structured so that what one party wins, the other party automatically loses
Conflict is total

Variable-Sum Game

both parties can simultaneously win something, even though one might benefit more than the other

Compellence

one seeks to persuade the other side to do something it does not wish to do, either to undertake or continue some disired behavior, or to sop some desired behavior

Deterrence

one seeks to discourage the other side from doing something it might wish to do

ATTL: True or False: Vietnam was a Civil War.

FALSE

How many international agreements have been signed since the 20th century?

40,000

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