Chapter 4

Question 1

Conceptualizing International Relations as a system suggests that

Answer 1

Actors involved in international Ralations interact with each other in regularized ways

Question 2

The move to conceptualize international politics as a system grew out of

Answer 2

The behavioral revolution to the social sciences

Question 3

For realists the basic ordering principle of the International system is

Answer 3

Anarchy

Question 4

For liberals the basic ordering principle of the International system is

Answer 4

interdependence

Question 5

For Radicals the basic ordering principle of the International system is

Answer 5

Capitalism

Question 6

Which two theories consider the structure of the system vital to their analyses?

Answer 6

1. Realists

2. Radicals

Question 7

Which theory sees the international system as a process?

Answer 7

Liberals

Question 8

What does Polarity refer to?

Answer 8

The number of influential allies that exert power in the international system

Question 9

What are the 4 norms of the balance of power system?

Answer 9

1, Any state trying to assume dominate power must be constrained

2. negotiating is better than fighting
3. states seek own national interests defined in terms of power
4. states want to increase territory, population and economy

Question 10

Alliances in a bipolar international system tend to be (2 things)

Answer 10

1. long term

2. based on relatively permanent interests.

Question 11

Kenneth Waltz (a neorealist) argues that bipolar international systems are

Answer 11

more stable than multipolar systems

Question 12

Advocates of unipolarity attribut the stability of such a system to be the

Answer 12

Hegomon’s willingness to enforce norms needed to maintain the system

Question 13

Realists attribute changes in the International System to

Answer 13

changes in the number of major actors in the system

Question 14

What is a realists assesement of the possibility of change in the international system?

Answer 14

change happens, but it is slow

Question 15

Liberals see the international system as what kind of system?

Answer 15

Interdependent and evolving

Question 16

Multilaterlist actions involve

Answer 16

coordination among several states

Question 17

Neoliberals see international institutions as

Answer 17

making state commitments more credible and enforceable

Question 18

Liberals acknowledge and welcome changes in the international system and see them as a result of

Answer 18

the participation of new actors in global civil society.

Question 19

In examining the international system, radicals are concerned primarily with

Answer 19

Stratification

Question 20

What is stratification?

Answer 20

An unbalance of resources in the world

Question 21

Why can stratification lead to instability?

Answer 21

Dominant powers can be challenged by those just beneath them as the latter try to gain access to the former’s resources.

Question 22

What was the New International Economic Order?

Answer 22

A radical call in the 70s to improve the south via economic power

Question 23

According to constructivists, what causes change in the international system?

Answer 23

changing ideas and cultural change

Question 24

The text argues that “international system theorists have always been hampered by The problem of boundaries”, what does this problem entail?

Answer 24

It is not clear how states influence the system and how the system influences states