MCQs of International Relations – Liberal and Social Theories

Which type of feminist believes men and women are equal?

Which type of feminist finds important differences between men and women that are arbitrary and flexible?

On which level of analysis do peace studies NOT focus?

In which of the following conflicts was collective security successful?

Overall, female state leaders

In arbitration,

__________ is a set of rules, norms, and procedures around which the expectations of actors converge in a certain issue area.

Which of these illustrates the culmination of liberal institutionalism to date?

The rational actor model of foreign policy decision making states that each decision in the foreign policy process involves

The strand of feminist IR scholarship that valorizes the feminine by focusing on the unique contributions of women is ________ feminism.

__________ is a concept that conceives of peace as something more than the absence of war.

Liberal institutionalism operates at the ________ level of analysis.

Neoliberals use __________ to illustrate their argument that cooperation between actors is possible.

In the rational model of decision making.

In the ________ model of decision making, emphasis is placed on standard operating procedures.

The __________ model explains foreign policy decision making as a result of bargaining among the various government agencies that have somewhat divergent interests and responsibilities in the outcome.

The tendency for groups to validate wrong decisions, since individual members tend to go along with ideas they think the others support, is called

Which of these is an example of groupthink?

When some kinds of information are screened out and not considered by decision makers, this referred to as

Attributing one’s own feelings to another actor is called

Propaganda is:

Democratic governments are least likely to fight

Which US government agency was primarily responsible for the Iran-Contra scandal?

The idea of ‘Democratic Peace’ is:

__________ holds that “state identities” are complex and changing, and arise from interactions with other states.

Constructivist believe that international norms are spread around the world by

The international system’s first attempt to create a collective security system was

Which of these theorists would be associated with liberal institutionalism?

One very important class in revolutions during the past century (contrary to Karl Marx’s expectations) has been that of

In order for a collective security regime to be successful, the members must agree on what constitutes

The concept of “world government” is most closely associated with

In liberal theories, war and violence appear as irrational deviations that result from

Difference feminists argue that realism involves assumptions of masculinity because of

Proponents of positive peace call for the development of

Information screens:

Historical analogies, such as the U.S. use of Munich to argue that appeasement of communism in the Vietnam War would lead to increased communist aggression in Asia, is a form of what type of bias?

The claims of liberalism are:

What are Kant’s Three Articles of Perpetual Peace?
i. The civil constitution of every state shall be republican
ii. The civil constitution of every state shall be democratic
iii.The Right of Nations shall be based on a Federation of Free States
iv. Cosmopolitanism Right shall be limited to Conditions of Universal Hospitality

Neo-liberals share with neo-realists their belief in:

In which way did the UN charter differ from the League of Nations?
i. That membership was near universal in the former
ii. That the Great Powers were able to prevent any enforcement action from taking place which might be contrary to their interests

Radical Liberals argue that:

According to David Held what would a ‘cosmopolitan model of democracy’ entail?

Radical liberals place importance on:

Define Collective Security.

‘Harmony of Interests’ is the idea that: