General IR
Geography
Mangalwadi
Potpourri
IR Terms
100

What are organizations that states join to further their political or economic interests called?

International Government Organizations (IGOs)

100

In International Relations, Geography must be understood to include land, sea, ____ & _____.

Air and Space

100
Mangalwadi is from which Asian country?

India

100

Different ways of looking for answers to questions in international relations, generally grouped into the individual, state, and international levels.

Levels of Analysis

100

Two key features of this political entity are 1) territory with well-defined borders and 2) political authorities who enjoy sovereignty.

State

200

Hans J. Morgenthau, author of Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, is most closely associated with which international relations theory?

Realism

200

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

200

His music represents the culmination of the loss of a center, or soul, in Western culture.

Kurt Cobain
200

Name at least one country Mangalwadi lists as having modern restrictions on music.

Possible Answers: Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran

200

A political unit inhabited by people sharing common culture, history, or language.

Nation-state

300

The modern state system in which each state is sovereign, with no higher authority.

Westphalian State System

300

According to Kaplan, what event preceded the moment we profoundly lost our sense of geography?

Collapse of the Berlin Wall

300

This composer, and hero of Adolf Hitler, was one of the first to experiment with atonality.

Richard Wagner

300

This India-born British author was a socialist, inclined toward atheism.

George Orwell

300

Collections of people who share a common culture, history, or language.

Nation

400
True or False: Nations often transcend the boundary of a single state and states often contain more than one nation.

True

400

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

400

Mangalwadi describes having an epiphany after reading and considering which passage of scripture?

Genesis 1

400

The idea that every people should determine and manage their own political systems.

Self-determination

400

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

500

The carving up of Africa by colonial powers after 1870 is know as what?

Scramble for Africa

500

How many named oceans are recognized by the United States?

5 - Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern

500
______ implies that we don't exist as individual selves but are only products of our chemistry, genes, environment, culture, or language.

Determinism

500

The idea that as global learning and international socialization occur, ideas about what is or is not acceptable or 'normal' change.

Normative change

500

As opposed to absolute gains, this concept focuses on the gains one state makes compared to a rival.

Relative gains

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