Exam 14: World Politics in Context
Which theoretical perspective suggests that there is not an ethical debate regarding trade and development because, they argue, capitalism is the natural economic order?
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What are the theoretical perspectives when it comes to the ethical debates regarding trade and development? In your opinion, which is more convincing?
Realism: Trade and development are opportunities for gains in relative advantage and overall power.
o Trade and development are extractive processes that yield unequal benefits to greater powers.
Liberalism: Trade and development are a natural process where all benefit.
o Each individual and each state can gain.
o Decries realist view that trade and development cannot be a cooperative game
Constructivism: consider economic institutions that have been created to foster trade and development as well as the assumptions underlying them
Marxism: trade and development are merely a means to enhance the power of core states relative to those in the periphery
o Perceives the system as unfair
List the four Geneva Conventions and briefly explain what they cover.
First deals with wounded and sick soldiers on the battlefield
Second deals with wounded, sick, and shipwrecked sailors
Third focuses on POWs
Fourth focuses on civilians in times of war
Of the theoretical perspectives, which argues that the future can be radically different because people's identities and interpretations of the world change?
How is the study of world politics related to other subfields of political science?
The general ethical debate regarding trade and development focuses on
Which subdiscipline of political science focuses on states' domestic structures and functions?
List at least three ethical debates discussed and briefly explain the realist view of each.
Which theoretical perspective views trade and development issues as opportunities to gain a relative advantage over others and to enhance state power?
In the case of the Syrian civil war, international leaders chose
_________ point to the reality that there has been a process of social learning that has influenced the evolution of international law that addresses warfare.
Explain how the case of Syria illustrates the ethical dilemma regarding intervention. In your opinion, should the international community intervene?
Which theoretical perspective favors self-awareness and deliberate, considered behavior?
In your opinion, was the war in Iraq just? Does it meet the criteria of jus ad bellum and jus in bello?
The concept of sovereignty as a rule of the international system has been in place since
There have been a total of ________ Geneva Conventions addressing the rules of war.
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