IR Theories Quiz
Across
- 3. Theory that highlights specific aspects of the state and international system.
- 7. Radical theory that explains the reasons why imperialism happens (expansion of dominant states).
- 10. Social construction of identities.
- 11. Type of balancing that gains power through building up its own military resources.
- 12. Theory that observes that states in the international system cooperate despite the anarchic system.
- 16. How much more one state gains over another.
- 17. Realist thinker that established the dynamism in realism-history = cycles of dominant powers.
- 18. Realist thinker that established the different types of balance of power: unpolar, bipolar, multipolar.
- 19. Radical theorist that explains that in the capitalist system, private interests control labor and market exchanges, creating bondage from which certain classes try to free themselves.
- 21. Radical Theroist that explained that expansion occurs when there is overproduction, low classes can't afford products because of low wages, and oversaving of the upper classes.
- 22. Realist thinker that placed the idea of the anarchic international system.
- 23. Working class according to Marxism
- 24. For this realist thinker, the state is the principal actor, it is unitary, rational and focused on protecting themselves.
Down
- 1. J. Ann Tickner, Cynthia Enole and Christine Sylvester follow a constructivist approach of this view that states that the issue with most theories is a matter of discourse.
- 2. Set of theories united by common themes.
- 4. A falsifiable statement that questions the relationship between concepts.
- 5. Liberal thinker who stated that war is a product of society (not of the individual).
- 6. A process explained by offensive realists as joining an unlikely ally to avoid war with it.
- 8. Radical theory that explains the underdevelopment of dominated states.
- 9. Liberal thinker who said that anarchy can be solved through a federation of republics, and that states are self-interested, but self-interest would in fact be collective gain. He also determined the term economic interdependence.
- 13. Explains politics by focusing on norms and identities.
- 14. Identities are like this when they don't have similar characteristics and ideas, and conflict is likely to happen.
- 15. No hierarchically superior, coercive authority.
- 16. Theory that focuses mainly on the state and international system.
- 20. Radicalism considers this as the determinant factor in IR.