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POLI 105 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE GRADED A++
2025/2026
1. NGO= Non-governmental organization;
made up of individuals; funded by
individuals or public fundraising;
examples include Amnesty
What is the International, the Roman Catholic
difference Church, etc.
between an NGO,
and IGO, and an 2. IGO= Intergovernmental
IO organization; made up of states;
examples include the UN, EU,
NAFTA, etc.
3. IOs= International organizations; include
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both NGOs and IGOs.
Neoliberalism. ****
(Realism- "power matters")
(Neorealism- "security matters")
What theory of IR
(Liberalism- "cooperation matters")
focuses on
(Neoliberalism-
institiutions
"institutions matter")
(Constructivism=
"ideas matter")
What do Peace and security
international
structures/
organizations
foster?
The idea is sovereignty- 100% statehood,
What heavily political or territorial autonomy, a state
fostered IGOs and controlling itself within its borders.
international Since IGOs (intergovernmental
structures/organiz organizations) are made up of
ations? states, the idea of sovereignty
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and the idea of the nation state
(established in the Peace/Treaty of
Westphalia in 1648) rapidly developed
IGOs.
RULES.
International - They can either be implied or
INSTITUTION explicit, physical and understood, can
be legal and binding or normatively
enforced. We generalize all of
these as institutions.
International - Compose both IGOs and NGOs.
ORGANIZATIONS - Hard, physical, material structures. Have
actual buildings, employees, charters, etc.
- Issues that become regime bound.
- Example: Think of free trade. Free
International trade is a major area of concern in
REGIMES international politics. Major IGOS
(NAFTA, ITO, the World Bank, the
IMF) all form around free
trade, yet no one IGO focuses and covers
free trade particularly. Free trade, the
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central concern, and the IGOs formed
around it all make up International
Regimes.
- 1815.
- States involved: AH, Russia, Britain, Prussia,
What was the and France.
Concert of Europe? - Winners: British, AH, Russia and Prussia VS.
France.
- France lost the war. But instead of
being isolated from politics, France is
included in future political
decisions.
Conference Simple mechanism to avoid another war.
system
Individual credited Woodrow Wilson in his speech '14 Points'.
for establishing
the league of
nations
At the Paris Peace To keep Germany out of the League
Conference, the of Nations. Much of WWI was blamed
Treaty of on Germany.
Versailles was
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POLI 105 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE GRADED A++
2025/2026
1. NGO= Non-governmental organization;
made up of individuals; funded by
individuals or public fundraising;
examples include Amnesty
What is the International, the Roman Catholic
difference Church, etc.
between an NGO,
and IGO, and an 2. IGO= Intergovernmental
IO organization; made up of states;
examples include the UN, EU,
NAFTA, etc.
3. IOs= International organizations; include
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PM
both NGOs and IGOs.
Neoliberalism. ****
(Realism- "power matters")
(Neorealism- "security matters")
What theory of IR
(Liberalism- "cooperation matters")
focuses on
(Neoliberalism-
institiutions
"institutions matter")
(Constructivism=
"ideas matter")
What do Peace and security
international
structures/
organizations
foster?
The idea is sovereignty- 100% statehood,
What heavily political or territorial autonomy, a state
fostered IGOs and controlling itself within its borders.
international Since IGOs (intergovernmental
structures/organiz organizations) are made up of
ations? states, the idea of sovereignty
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,7/13/25, 6:49
PM
and the idea of the nation state
(established in the Peace/Treaty of
Westphalia in 1648) rapidly developed
IGOs.
RULES.
International - They can either be implied or
INSTITUTION explicit, physical and understood, can
be legal and binding or normatively
enforced. We generalize all of
these as institutions.
International - Compose both IGOs and NGOs.
ORGANIZATIONS - Hard, physical, material structures. Have
actual buildings, employees, charters, etc.
- Issues that become regime bound.
- Example: Think of free trade. Free
International trade is a major area of concern in
REGIMES international politics. Major IGOS
(NAFTA, ITO, the World Bank, the
IMF) all form around free
trade, yet no one IGO focuses and covers
free trade particularly. Free trade, the
3/40
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PM
central concern, and the IGOs formed
around it all make up International
Regimes.
- 1815.
- States involved: AH, Russia, Britain, Prussia,
What was the and France.
Concert of Europe? - Winners: British, AH, Russia and Prussia VS.
France.
- France lost the war. But instead of
being isolated from politics, France is
included in future political
decisions.
Conference Simple mechanism to avoid another war.
system
Individual credited Woodrow Wilson in his speech '14 Points'.
for establishing
the league of
nations
At the Paris Peace To keep Germany out of the League
Conference, the of Nations. Much of WWI was blamed
Treaty of on Germany.
Versailles was
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