This exam comprises two (2) sections. Section I asks for descriptions/definitions of 20 terms used in IR. You are to provide an answer for each term listed. Section II presents 4 essay questions from which you are to select and answer only two (no extra credit for more than two). Have all your responses to me via email no later than designated in the syllabus, either as plain text in the message, or as attached word processing file. All the best.

Section I.   Provide a brief description/definition (viz. 3-5 well-formed sentences) for each of the following terms. This section is worth 30% of the final exam grade ( = 1.5% each).

• Cold War
• IGO
• Treaty of Westphalia
• balance of power theory
• realpolitik
• structuralism
• irredentism
• GPS
• MAD
• UDHR
• GATT/WTO
• globalization
• IBRD/IMF
• neofunctionalism
• supranationalism
• Montreal/Kyoto Protocols
• neocolonialism
• UNCTAD
• MNC
• LDC/UDC

Section II.   Answer any two (2) of the following four (4) essay questions. Each essay should run 500-700 words, and is worth 35% of the final exam grade.

a.   Use any two (2) major theories of IR discussed in the text or in class to discuss and evaluate the recent (and as yet not wholly resolved) incident between China and the US over the air collision and loss of a Chinese fighter pilot over the South China Sea, and return of the US crew and reconnaissance plane that landed on Hainan Island.

b.   Outline the motivation and appeal of the realist argument in the interwar, immediate postwar, and current periods of history. If, as is claimed by many, the central propositions of realism are essential and valid, how is it possible that realism has been eclipsed by other schools of thought?

c.   There are two underlying themes in the Goldstein text: (1) collective goods management; and (2) security dilemmas. How are these similar? How are they different? What solutions might there be to resolve each separately, or both together, as we enter the 21st Century?

d.   Discuss both the range and impact of political and economic costs and benefits for various state and non-state actors associated with the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), as discussed and outlined in the recent Declaration concluded at the summit in Quebec.