Exam 6: Power, statecraft, and the National State: The Traditional Structure

Hobbes argued that humans abandoned the state of nature for which of the following reasons?

Which of the following is not a major purpose of sates?

What does it mean for a state to be "sovereign"?

Leader-to-leader diplomacy has become increasingly common.What are the advantages of this type of diplomacy? What are the drawbacks?

Which of the following is not an example of sovereignty weakening?

What does it mean for negotiations to be a "two-level game?"

List three reasons why states are likely to remain the major political units of the international system.

Separatist movements challenge which of the following criteria for a state?

The idea that for negotiations to be successful solutions must be acceptable at the international and domestic level is known as

Idealists see power as a zero-sum game.

Prior to the 20^th century most diplomacy was

Describe the motivations put forward by Locke and Hobbes for the creation of governments.

Nationals of which state can continue to vote in presidential elections even though they have emigrated to the United States?

Taiwan,has a curious legal status because

Realists are often concerned about which misuse of power?

The U.S.toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan was prompted by the

An example of absolute power would be a country's

What is the difference between hard and soft power?

Scholars predict the demise of the state for all of the following reasons except that the state is

A potential drawback to the use of coercive diplomacy is that