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60 Cards in this Set
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If you are accurate in describing the problem and correct in asserting your _______, then you should be able to predict.
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Causal Explanations
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Which statement below most accurately describes the relationship between the study of politics and the nature of science? Choose the MOST correct answer.
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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
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Britain largely let other states fight the Napoleonic wars. This action is an example of which of the following
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Buckpassing
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Why are the social sciences less scientifically rigorous than the hard sciences?
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All of the above
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To move from correlation to causation requires a method know as _______, which show exactly how A causes B.
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process tracing
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Cardinal Richelieu is credited with developing which of the following ideas?
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Raison d’etat
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Which view of international relations tend to emphasize allegedly innate human goodness, the ties of trade, diplomacy, people-to-people contact, and international organization?
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Neo-liberalism
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What is an “epistemic community”?
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A community of individuals or countries that share a broad base of common knowledge and trust
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A method of discouraging attacks by virtue of threat is know as?
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Deterrence
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Which social science is generally considered to be “the hardest of the soft sciences”?
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Economics
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Which school of thought believes that there are no such things as “facts per se, and that cause and effect is irrelevant?
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Identity constructivism
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In studying international relations, there are many _____, such as the individual, the state, the bureaucracy, and the international system.
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Levels of analysis
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The supposedly scientific ideology that inflamed racial nationalism in Europe was known as?
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Social Darwinism
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The Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was called
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the Triple Alliance
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The domestic coalition that dominated German politics before WWI was called the?
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Iron and Rye Coalition
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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?
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Relativism
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What was the military strategy of all the major European powers in WWI?
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The “cult of the offensive”
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According to the realist perspective, what is a consequence of the decentralized distribution of power in the world?
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States must be prepared to defend themselves
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According to the realist perspective, why didn’t Britain ally with Germany against the United States before World War I?
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Germany was a more proximate threat to the British
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According to the hegemonic decline argument, the decreasing power of [x] destabilized the international system prior to the outbreak of the World War One.
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Britain
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What does Lebensraum mean?
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Living space
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Who headed the American opposition to entering the League of Nations?
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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What area did Hitler invade under the terms of the Munich agreement?
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The Sudetenland
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Which American academic parroted the Soviet propaganda line that the US was the cause of WWII?
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William Appleman Williams
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What area did Hitler re-militarize in 1936 in explicit and open violation of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations guarantees?
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The Rhineland
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British historian A.J.P. Taylor argued that WWII was the consequences of____
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A long series of misperceptions and mistakes, particularly Britain’s refusal to ally with the Soviet Union.
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What organization required unanimity?
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The League of Nations
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A rigid defensive alliance system creates____
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Chain-ganging
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According to the lecture, the German generals ______
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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.
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John Mearsheimer is an _______
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Offensive realist
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Who called for “roll-back”?
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John Foster Dulles
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What did the START treaty do?
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Reduce the total number of nuclear weapons
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What was MAP?
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A predicted result of SDI
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What did ABM do?
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Ban the deployment of anti-missile missiles
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According to Chapter 5, many liberals blame the start of the Cold War on the threats and poor diplomacy of _____
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Truman
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What did the SALT do?
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Limit the growth of nuclear stockpiles
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The goal of the strategic triad was _____
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A second-strike capability
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The restructuring of the Soviet economy (Gorbachev’s reforms) was called _____
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Perestroika
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Human rights agreements between the West and the Communist countries were made at _____
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The Helsinki Conference
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The first international organization to begin the unification of Europe was _____
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ECSC
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What was the NPT?
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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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What did the Oslo Accords do?
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Begin peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians
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What is the name of the Islamist radical from Egypt who inspired Osama Bin Laden?
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Sayid Qutb
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What is the ICC?
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the International Criminal Court
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What was the CFE?
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Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe
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wrote the book American Empire, which promoted a critical theory perspective?
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Andrew Bacevich
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What reached its apex during the Persian Gulf War (War of the Liberation of Kuwait), but quickly dissipated in the wake of Somalia?
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collective security
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What famous author declared "The End of History", by which he meant that democracy and capitalism would soon triumph worldwide?
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Francis Fukuyama
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What did the A. Q. Khan network do?
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proliverate nuclear technology
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What does intifada mean?
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"shaking off" Israeli rule through Palestinian uprisings in areas occupied by Israel
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An "overdetermined outcome" is defined by _________.
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multiple independent variables
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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-________?
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Wahhab
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Shiites are _________.
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a religious sect
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What does AfPak mean?
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Afghanistan and Pakistan
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What is the SCO?
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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Bruce Russett's theory of the democratic peace is based on what two factors?
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identity and liberal factors
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What political scientist said that the democratic peace "comes as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations"?
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Jack Levy
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Of all of the explanations for the supposed success of the democratic peace, which of the following is realist?
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Democracies do not go to war with one another because they belong to the same alliances counterbalancing for fighting other alliances.
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According to the Hastedt Conclusion chapter, one of the main critiques of the democratic peace theory is ______________.
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the sample size is too small
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What is a madrassa?
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a Muslim religious school
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