IR Review #2

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One of the challenges of studying international relations is ________________, which is the general psychological tendency to deny discrepancies between one's preexisting beliefs and new information.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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An individual, group, state, or organization that plays a major role in world politics:

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Actor

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The hypothesis that leaders sometimes initiate conflict abroad as a way of increasing national cohesion at home by diverting national public attention away from controversial domestic issues and internal problems refers to:

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Diversionary Theory of War

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When European countries clustered around more powerful countries during the Cold War, what were they practicing?

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Polarization

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T/F: Some MNCs make more annual revenue than some countries, which gives them more political power.

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True

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An increase in the number of states that possess nuclear weapons is known as:

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Horizontal nuclear proliferation

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The efforts by third parties, such as the U.N., to intervene in civil wars/interstate wars or to prevent hostilities between potential belligerents from escalating refers to:

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Peacekeeping

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The strategy for economic development that centers on providing investors at home with incentives to produce goods so demand for previously imported products from abroad will decline refers to:

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Import-Substitution Industrialization

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Which of the following is NOT considered an IGO? United Nations, World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund

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International Monetary Fund

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T/F: According to the prisoner's dilemma, countries have little incentive to cooperate with one another, even though that would likely be the best outcome.

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True