International History - Introduction to International Politics - Past Exam, Exams of Political Science

Download International History - Introduction to International Politics - Past Exam and more Exams Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! TROSODD / Please Turn Over ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMESTER ONE EXAMINATIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2008/2009 IP10420/GW10420 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Time Allowed: Two Hours Answer TWO Questions: ONE from Section One and ONE from Section Two Section One 1. ‘The dominance of realism after 1945 simply reflected the course of international history in the first half of the twentieth century’. Do you agree? 2. Can international politics be both ‘anarchical’ and ‘social’ at the same time? 3. What is ‘liberal’ about the liberal internationalist perspective? 4. What does ‘rationality’ mean when applied to international behaviour? 5. ‘IR theory comes down to a number of hard choices between studying parts or wholes’. Do you accept this verdict? Section Two 6. Was Machiavelli right to insist that ‘where the very safety of the country’ is at stake ‘no considerations of justice or injustice…should be allowed to prevail’? 7. Can an inter-state system deal effectively with human rights? 8. ‘After the Cold War, globalization was just another word for westernization’. Do you agree? 9. Have international politics moved ‘beyond sovereignty’? 10. What is unusual about the idea of a ‘war’ on terror?