According to your text and class lectures, what is political socialization? According to class lectures what is the most important agent of political socialization and what person is by far the most important and influential in this process?

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Introduction to International Relations

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PSCI 271

1.According to your text and class lectures, what is political socialization? According to
class lectures what is the most important agent of political socialization and what person
is by far the most important and influential in this process?
2.According to class lectures, the international system is hobbesan. Explain what this means?

3.What is the Treaty of Westphalia? What did it establish and what is its significance?

4.According to your text and class lectures, what is the significance of the prisoners’
dilemma? Please explain your answer.

5According to your text and class lectures what are the alternatives to the political
realist paradigm?
6.According to your text and class lectures, give a real world example of appeasement?
Explain your answer.
7.According to your class lectures, name at least three wars that took place during the
Cold War? Explain your answer.
8.Based on your answer in question 7 above, is it accurate to say the Cold War entailed no
fighting and no violence? Why do observers describe it as a Cold War? Explain your
answer.
9.According to your text and class lectures, provide a real world example of linkage? Explain
your answer.
10.According to class lectures which of the two terms, glastnost or perestroika
has survived in-tact and remains largely unchanged since its introduction?
11.According to class lectures, rather than examine the notion of bipolarity and
multipolarity, a more modern and relevant notion for today’s world is hegemony.
What is hegemony and which state is the hegemon in world military affairs?
Explain your answer.
12.Similarly, what state according to class lectures is the hegemon in the area of
world trade? Explain your answer.
13.According to class lectures, what important factors were overlooked by those
who voted to over-ride President Obama’s veto of legislation to block US
citizens from suing the government of Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in
the 9/11 bombings? Be sure to make your answer as detailed as the answer
provided in class.

14.According to your text and class lectures, what does clash of “the civilizations”
refer to? Who first introduced this term? Explain your answer.

15.What is a unitary actor and what relationship does it have to
rational choice theory? Provide a real-world illustration of this idea?
16.According to your text and class lectures provide a real world example of
satisficing in international relations? Be sure to explain your answer.
17.According to your text and class lectures provide a real world example of
bureaucratic politics in international relations? Explain your answer.

18.According to your text and class lectures give a real world example of
organizational processes at play in the operation of the UN security council?

19.Based on the textbook’s description, provide an example of MAD in
international relations?
20.According to your text and class lectures what does deterrence mean in
International relations and provide an example of a successful application
of deterrence in international relations.
21.According to your text and class lectures, provide an example of
of asymmetric warfare? Is asymmetric warfare becoming more or
less common in the post 9/11 era? Explain your answer.
22.What is the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and what are its two
primary goals? Has the treaty been a success or a failure?
23.What is the IAEA and what does it do? What is its relationship to the NPT
according to your text and class lectures?

24.What is the primary aim of the UN and what is its major structural
components? Has the UN been successful or unsuccessful in the
challenges it has faced since 9/11? Explain your answer and give
real-world examples that support your statements.
25.What is the UN Security Council and how is its role and authority
distinct from the role of the UN General Assembly. Explain your
answer.

26.According to your text and class lectures what unique characteristics are
associated with the Syrian civil war? Why is the Syrian civil war so
significant? Explain your answer.
27.According to your text and class lectures, how might one distinguish between a nation
and a state? Explain your answer and give examples.

28.What is the only Middle Eastern state whose Arab Spring uprisings continues to rage-on?
What explains why this Arab state remains in conflict? Explain your answer.

29.According to your text and class lectures, what is the idea or justification behind the
policy of preemptive war and preemptive strikes? Explain your answer.
30.According to your text and class lectures, what specific US President is most closely
associated with preemptive war and preemptive strikes? Explain your answer.
31.According to your text and class lectures, what does soft power mean? Provide an
example of soft power?

32.According to your text and class lectures, what does hard power mean? Provide an
example of hard power?

33.According to your text and class lectures, does a proxy, in a “proxy war” always fight at
on behalf of a stronger client state? Or is it possible for a “proxy” to fight for reasons
having little to do with the direction or encouragement it receives from a powerful client?
Name a proxy that appears to fight for reasons having little to do with encouragement or
direction from a powerful client or ally state?