Ir Quizzes

Front 1

If you are accurate in describing the problem and correct in asserting your _______, then you should be able to predict.

Back 1

Causal Explanations

Front 2

Which statement below most accurately describes the relationship between the study of politics and the nature of science? Choose the MOST correct answer.

Back 2

While the scientific study of politics is very difficult, it is nevertheless possible, and being even slightly more scientific in the way we structure our political and economic system could massively improve our lives

Front 3

Britain largely let other states fight the Napoleonic wars. This action is an example of which of the following

Back 3

Buckpassing

Front 4

Why are the social sciences less scientifically rigorous than the hard sciences?

Back 4

All of the above

Front 5

To move from correlation to causation requires a method know as _______, which show exactly how A causes B.

Back 5

process tracing

Front 6

Cardinal Richelieu is credited with developing which of the following ideas?

Back 6

Raison d’etat

Front 7

Which view of international relations tend to emphasize allegedly innate human goodness, the ties of trade, diplomacy, people-to-people contact, and international organization?

Back 7

Neo-liberalism

Front 8

What is an “epistemic community”?

Back 8

A community of individuals or countries that share a broad base of common knowledge and trust

Front 9

A method of discouraging attacks by virtue of threat is know as?

Back 9

Deterrence

Front 10

Which social science is generally considered to be “the hardest of the soft sciences”?

Back 10

Economics

Front 11

Which school of thought believes that there are no such things as “facts per se, and that cause and effect is irrelevant?

Back 11

Identity constructivism

Front 12

In studying international relations, there are many _____, such as the individual, the state, the bureaucracy, and the international system.

Back 12

Levels of analysis

Front 13

The supposedly scientific ideology that inflamed racial nationalism in Europe was known as?

Back 13

Social Darwinism

Front 14

The Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was called

Back 14

the Triple Alliance

Front 15

The domestic coalition that dominated German politics before WWI was called the?

Back 15

Iron and Rye Coalition

Front 16

Which school of thought in judging morals in international relations stresses seeing things from the other side’s point of view and not condemning them, no matter what they do?

Back 16

Relativism

Front 17

What was the military strategy of all the major European powers in WWI?

Back 17

The “cult of the offensive”

Front 18

According to the realist perspective, what is a consequence of the decentralized distribution of power in the world?

Back 18

States must be prepared to defend themselves

Front 19

According to the realist perspective, why didn’t Britain ally with Germany against the United States before World War I?

Back 19

Germany was a more proximate threat to the British

Front 20

According to the hegemonic decline argument, the decreasing power of [x] destabilized the international system prior to the outbreak of the World War One.

Back 20

Britain

Front 21

What does Lebensraum mean?

Back 21

Living space

Front 22

Who headed the American opposition to entering the League of Nations?

Back 22

Henry Cabot Lodge

Front 23

What area did Hitler invade under the terms of the Munich agreement?

Back 23

The Sudetenland

Front 24

Which American academic parroted the Soviet propaganda line that the US was the cause of WWII?

Back 24

William Appleman Williams

Front 25

What area did Hitler re-militarize in 1936 in explicit and open violation of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations guarantees?

Back 25

The Rhineland

Front 26

British historian A.J.P. Taylor argued that WWII was the consequences of____

Back 26

A long series of misperceptions and mistakes, particularly Britain’s refusal to ally with the Soviet Union.

Front 27

What organization required unanimity?

Back 27

The League of Nations

Front 28

A rigid defensive alliance system creates____

Back 28

Chain-ganging

Front 29

According to the lecture, the German generals ______

Back 29

Originally had planned to overthrow Hitler as soon as the French reacted to Hitler’s open violation of Versailles by invading a certain area. However, when the French did not react, and Hitler thus became wildly popular, the Generals decided to back him.

Front 30

John Mearsheimer is an _______

Back 30

Offensive realist

Front 31

Who called for “roll-back”?

Back 31

John Foster Dulles

Front 32

What did the START treaty do?

Back 32

Reduce the total number of nuclear weapons

Front 33

What was MAP?

Back 33

A predicted result of SDI

Front 34

What did ABM do?

Back 34

Ban the deployment of anti-missile missiles

Front 35

According to Chapter 5, many liberals blame the start of the Cold War on the threats and poor diplomacy of _____

Back 35

Truman

Front 36

What did the SALT do?

Back 36

Limit the growth of nuclear stockpiles

Front 37

The goal of the strategic triad was _____

Back 37

A second-strike capability

Front 38

The restructuring of the Soviet economy (Gorbachev’s reforms) was called _____

Back 38

Perestroika

Front 39

Human rights agreements between the West and the Communist countries were made at _____

Back 39

The Helsinki Conference

Front 40

The first international organization to begin the unification of Europe was _____

Back 40

ECSC

Front 41

What was the NPT?

Back 41

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Front 42

What did the Oslo Accords do?

Back 42

Begin peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians

Front 43

What is the name of the Islamist radical from Egypt who inspired Osama Bin Laden?

Back 43

Sayid Qutb

Front 44

What is the ICC?

Back 44

the International Criminal Court

Front 45

What was the CFE?

Back 45

Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe

Front 46

wrote the book American Empire, which promoted a critical theory perspective?

Back 46

Andrew Bacevich

Front 47

What reached its apex during the Persian Gulf War (War of the Liberation of Kuwait), but quickly dissipated in the wake of Somalia?

Back 47

collective security

Front 48

What famous author declared "The End of History", by which he meant that democracy and capitalism would soon triumph worldwide?

Back 48

Francis Fukuyama

Front 49

What did the A. Q. Khan network do?

Back 49

proliverate nuclear technology

Front 50

What does intifada mean?

Back 50

"shaking off" Israeli rule through Palestinian uprisings in areas occupied by Israel

Front 51

An "overdetermined outcome" is defined by _________.

Back 51

multiple independent variables

Front 52

What is the name of the rigid and puritanical form of Islam originating in the eighteenth century with the Arabian spiritual leader, Muhammad ibn Abd al-________?

Back 52

Wahhab

Front 53

Shiites are _________.

Back 53

a religious sect

Front 54

What does AfPak mean?

Back 54

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Front 55

What is the SCO?

Back 55

Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Front 56

Bruce Russett's theory of the democratic peace is based on what two factors?

Back 56

identity and liberal factors

Front 57

What political scientist said that the democratic peace "comes as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations"?

Back 57

Jack Levy

Front 58

Of all of the explanations for the supposed success of the democratic peace, which of the following is realist?

Back 58

Democracies do not go to war with one another because they belong to the same alliances counterbalancing for fighting other alliances.

Front 59

According to the Hastedt Conclusion chapter, one of the main critiques of the democratic peace theory is ______________.

Back 59

the sample size is too small

Front 60

What is a madrassa?

Back 60

a Muslim religious school