Exam 2: The Historical Evolution of International Politics

Trace the history of state interaction from city-states to nation-states. Which type of system do you think is the most peaceful? Support your answer with examples.

What major problem do most third world countries share?

Which of the following social scientists attributed Europe's economic success to its Protestant Christian values?

Which Cold War event posed the greatest threat to the United States?

The Treaty of Westphalia established a system in which the main actors were states and there was no higher authority than the state. This is known as which of the following?

What were the various factors that led to decolonization? What was the U.S. position on decolonization?

The Triple Alliance was a pact among three countries, pledging to help the other in case of attack. Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance?

The first major arms control agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union followed which event?

After the Cold War, nationalism led to the fragmentation of which of the following three states in Europe?

After World War II, from which country did Vietnam seek independence?

During which declining Chinese dynasty did Western powers begin to exploit China?

What form did most states take from the end of the Thirty Years' War until the early 1800s?

The World Bank is considered which type of nonstate actor?

Which of the following types of weapons were NOT developed in the run up to World War I?

Why is Thucydides' study of the Peloponnesian War so important for the study of international politics. Do his theories still hold true today? Apply his core belief about the cause of the war between Sparta and Athens to one modern conflict.

Avoiding punishing either Japan for invading Manchuria or Italy's invasion of Ethiopia demonstrated the weakness of which policy?

What were "proxies" during the Cold War?

Prior to the First World War, which declining empire controlled the Balkans?

What adverse effects for China resulted from Western contact in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What were the primary reasons for the rise of China in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?

How has sovereignty changed since the end of the Cold War? What is the impact of this change on nonstate actors?