Vocabulary
What term describes a conflict between a government and rebel forces outside of its own territory?
Extra-state conflict
If the proportion of women in Congress rose to 50%, what would difference feminists argue is likely to happen in the United States' approach to foreign policy?
More diplomatic, less war
"Vietnam syndrome" is another word for this concept that helps explain why a country may try to avoid war or end it on unfavorable terms.
War weariness
Since 1989, what has been the most common type of war?
Intra-state or Civil wars
Who was the tallest president?
Abraham Lincoln (6/4")
What concept refers to a situation in which one state's efforts to increase its security make other states feel less secure?
Security dilemma
A political leader with sagging poll numbers and a growing economic crisis at home threatens to invade the territory of one of its historical allies. This is an example of ____ theory.
Diversionary
The Cold War is an example of what type of world order / structural condition in the international system of states?
Bipolarity
Over time, it has become less common for US presidents to have military or combat experience. What effect is this likely to have?
More likely to initiate conflict
This rather large president was rumored to have gotten stuck in a bath tub. It's probably not true, but what is true was that he commissioned a custom 7 foot, 1-ton bath tub for the White House.
William Howard Taft
According to the Correlates of War (COW), what is the main difference in the definitions between an Armed Conflict and a War?
Threshold of annual battle-related deaths:
Armed conflict = 25
War = 1,000
A subset of liberalism, this theory argues that economic interdependence between states reduces the likelihood of war.
The United States support of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s is an example of a ___ war.
Proxy
There will be more conflicts because the pool of democracies who won't fight each other is smaller.
This president holds two records: longest ever inauguration speech and shortest presidency. He died a month after taking office from pneumonia contracted after giving his lengthy speech in a blizzard without a coat.
William Henry Harrison
One of the major causes of conflict is ____, which is the gap between what people believe their governments should provide for them and what they actually receive?
Relative deprivation
Which theory would argue that conflict is more likely to happen when a great power who is disgruntled with the hegemonic dominant nation starts to become relatively more powerful?
Power Transition Theory
What kind of world order existed prior to the outbreak of WWI?
Multipolar
This theory argues that a country is most likely to engage in conflict during certain inflection/turning points along a long-historical trend of its status in the international system rising and declining.
Power Cycle Theory
These two former presidents both died on the same day, July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Integrates insights from a variety of political science paradigms.
All the paradigms that explain conflict have meaningful insights. It’s not a matter of which paradigm is best, but rather which parts from which paradigms are most useful in understanding a given context.
If a state was behaving in a way that was consistent with offensive realism, what would it be trying to do?
Trying to seek hegemonic dominance
Why is the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) important in understanding global conflict today?
It established the international system of states (e.g. territorial sovereignty, international anarchy) that governs modern international politics.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some scholars argued in favor of a "New War" thesis. What did they think was new about war in the 1990s?
More asymmetric wars relying on unconventional tactics and technologies with more risk to civilians
This 32nd President had triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and refused to travel on the 13th day of the month.
FDR