G10 - AP 4TH QUARTER

What is balance of power?

• States choose to increase their own capabilities while undermining others, the international system doesn’t let one get far too powerful.

• State’s goal is to have power over the international system.

• Critics don’t view balance of power as a way to justify aggression and war.

Which theory is seen as the pillar within the field of International Relations?

• Idealism

• Facism

• Realism

In realism who is the principal actor?

• The State leader.

• The nation-state, there are other actors, but their power is limited

• International organizations.

Which author believed that a leader must have power and deception to conduct foreign policy and their primary concern must be national security?

• Waltz.

• Morgenthau.

• Machiavelli.

Who believed that politics is governed by laws that have roots in human nature?

• Waltz.

• Morgenthau.

• Machiavelli.

Why do critics view balance of power as a way to justify aggression and war?

• Because they think that realism is a self fulfilling prophecy. Since realism assumes the selfish and uncooperative nature of humanity.

• Because it’s the leaders perspective.

• Because they have to criticize everything at some point.

Why is realism often used in policy making?

• Realism believes that it describes the picture of world politics.

• Because realism perpetuates the remarkable world they describe.

• Because it doesn’t focus too much on the state as a solid union.

What is theory?

• A. It is a lens; a way of viewing the world that is shaped by the assumptions we make.

• B. it is a set of connected ideas and assumptions that attempts to explain why something happens the way it does and to predict what may happen in a given situation or set of circumstances

• C. It is a biased idea about a view which often negative.

• Both A&B

• Both B&C

"IN AN IDEAL WORLD, WHERE THERE ARE ONLY GOOD STATES, POWER WOULD BE ____________"

• IRRELEVANT

• RELEVANT

• ULTIMATE

Realism focuses on which of the following?

• trade

• power

• democratization

• international law