Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Is it possible to engage in a scientific approach to politics, or is political science a misnomer?
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. In reference to hard power and soft power, which is most influential?
Which level of analysis can provide the best explanation of U.S. actions since the end of the Cold War (1989 – present)? Why? Support your position with specific examples.
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Discuss the arguments for and against the following statement: “the UN is taking away US sovereignty.”
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Give one example of a nation being hurt by its geography and one example of a nation being helped by geography. Explain the examples you give.
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Will the rise in scope and scale of NGOs in world politics alter the Westphalian system, or will nation-states continue to be the primary actors in world politics?
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Is there a difference between modern terrorism and past terrorism?
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. What are some of the barriers to development? What developmental strategy do you recommend for overcoming those barriers?
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. If a feminist approach dominated international relations theory, would our understanding of human rights be any different?
How is the International Criminal Court different from the International Court of Justice (World Court)?
List some of the IGOs involved in trying to resolve the Syrian Civil War Crisis, and discuss why or why not their efforts will succeed.
Short answer – Answer the following question in two or three sentences. Can technological solutions to environmental problems outpace the environmental problems caused by technology? In other words, is technology the solution or the problem with the environment?
Essay – In a one page, well-crafted essay, please answer the following question: Two ethnic groups, the Tans and the Greens, have been engaged in brutal warfare against each other. They have been forced to settle in the face of the superior firepower of the country Hegemonia. What kind of peace settlement would be sought be a realist, a liberal (idealist), and social theorist (radical)?
Essay – In a one page, well-crafted essay, please answer the following question: Analyze a current conflict in the world (political, military, or economic), using the terms and concepts from the course. Do not use a situation you have already discussed in the short answers above. You should use this essay as an opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned from the course. That is, your answer should not be something you could have written if you never took this course.
