Current World Problems Part 1, CWP #2, CWP 3 with correct answer 202
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What makes a state a state? - answer-Territoriality and Sovereignty
What are the conditions of statehood? - answer-Permanent population, Defined territory, a Government, and capacity to enter relations with other states
What is power? - answer-Ability to achieve ones personal goals or purpose...
Current World Problems Part 1, CWP
#2, CWP 3 with correct answer 2024
What makes a state a state? - answer-Territoriality and Sovereignty
What are the conditions of statehood? - answer-Permanent population, Defined
territory, a Government, and capacity to enter relations with other states
What is power? - answer-Ability to achieve ones personal goals or purposes, get
other to do what you want
Hard Power - answer-Military, Visible, and tangible
Soft Power - answer-Negotiations, Norm Making, Indirect
What are the elements of rational choice? - answer-Self Interest, Collective Action,
Goal Maximization
What are the problems of rational choice and why are they problems? - answer-More
members in a group has more coordination which makes it harder to communicate,
formation of common goals becomes difficult
Prisoners Dilemma - answer-Distrust among the parties-difficult to cooperate.
Example: North Korea withdrawing from the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty in 2003
Free Riding - answer-When actors do not act according to the goals
Examples of Tragedy of the Commons. - answer-Use of public goods becomes
unmonitored and is overused. Example: Overfishing, Fish population collapses and
fishermen lose their job. Used first by Garret Hardin
What do you know about the Mexican Gulf Dead Zone? Who are the actors
involved? - answer-An ecosystem that cannot maintain any living creatures. It was
caused by an increase in chemical nutrients in the water. Farms started this. Shrimp
Trawlers reported this.
What is political culture? What are its weaknesses and strengths? - answer-How
political beliefs shape traditions, habits, and patterns of behavior.
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, Current World Problems Part 1, CWP
#2, CWP 3 with correct answer 2024
What are Political Culture's weaknesses and strengths? - answer-Whose preference
counts? The problem with this is its vagueness - unscientific. Needs solid evidence
What are the elements of political culture? - answer-Objective Social structures,
Subjective legitimacy, Political regime type.
How did the Egyptian revolution occur and how does the political culture approach
explain the event? - answer-Protests started in 2010 when a fruit seller (Muhammad)
set himself on fire, in Egypt- death of Khaled Said who was beaten by death and his
body was shared online. The citizens weren't walking away from the protests until
Hosni Mubarak stepped down from presidency.
What is structuralism? And what are its strengths and weaknesses? - answer-A set
of rules; study of meanings that are attached to signs, symbols, and
communications. Everything has a meaning. Its difficult to identify the structures,
can't explain how it was formed. But its more visible than cultures,
What are two causes for a revolution according to Skopol? - answer-State crisis and
class crisis.
What are the assumptions made by structuralism? - answer-Every system has a
structure, Structures do not change much, they are enduring, and are real things.
How does structuralism help explain the current state of healthcare in the US? -
answer-Changes can only happen overtime.
What type of membership was Palestine granted by the UN in 2012? - answer-Non-
member Observer State
What is International Politics? - answer-It is politics in the absence of a common
sovereign
What has intensified the Baltic Dead Zone and made it worse? - answer-Overfishing
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