General IR
What are organizations that states join to further their political or economic interests called?
International Government Organizations (IGOs)
In International Relations, Geography must be understood to include land, sea, ____ & _____.
Air and Space
India
Different ways of looking for answers to questions in international relations, generally grouped into the individual, state, and international levels.
Levels of Analysis
Two key features of this political entity are 1) territory with well-defined borders and 2) political authorities who enjoy sovereignty.
State
Hans J. Morgenthau, author of Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, is most closely associated with which international relations theory?
Realism
In recent years, India and China have built fleets that are designed for armed encounters at sea. What proponent of sea power might they have been influenced by?
Alfred Thayer Mahan
His music represents the culmination of the loss of a center, or soul, in Western culture.
Name at least one country Mangalwadi lists as having modern restrictions on music.
Possible Answers: Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran
A political unit inhabited by people sharing common culture, history, or language.
Nation-state
The modern state system in which each state is sovereign, with no higher authority.
Westphalian State System
According to Kaplan, what event preceded the moment we profoundly lost our sense of geography?
Collapse of the Berlin Wall
This composer, and hero of Adolf Hitler, was one of the first to experiment with atonality.
Richard Wagner
This India-born British author was a socialist, inclined toward atheism.
George Orwell
Collections of people who share a common culture, history, or language.
Nation
True
He wrote, "Many of the isolationists accepted the policy of hemisphere defense because it seemed a way of avoiding conflict with Germany, but they overlooked the fact that, even if the U.S. could have avoided war with Germany over Europe, it could not have avoided a struggle with Germany for dominance over South America."
Nicholas J. Spykman
Mangalwadi describes having an epiphany after reading and considering which passage of scripture?
Genesis 1
The idea that every people should determine and manage their own political systems.
Self-determination
This theory is an example of a state level-of-analysis argument which states that democracies are unusually peaceful towards each other.
Democratic Peace Theory
The carving up of Africa by colonial powers after 1870 is know as what?
Scramble for Africa
How many named oceans are recognized by the United States?
5 - Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern
Determinism
The idea that as global learning and international socialization occur, ideas about what is or is not acceptable or 'normal' change.
Normative change
As opposed to absolute gains, this concept focuses on the gains one state makes compared to a rival.
Relative gains