Blueprint PSCI 2500 Midterm Exam
1. Explain the following jargons:
●Cognitive Dissonance: The psychological tendency to ignore contradicts
between one's current ideas (cognitions) and new information
●Mirror Images: The tendency of nations and people in competitive contact to
see each other as threatening.
●Enduring rivalries: Prolonged competition motivated by mutual hatred that
causes opposing actors to feud and battle without resolution.
●State Sovereignty: No other actor is above the state
●Anarchy: A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority or
other controlling systems.
2. What are ethnic groups? Give three examples
→ Ethnic groups refers to people whose identity is primarily defined by their beliefs
in ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage and kinship. Ethnic groups are also
known as Non-State Nations. The examples of ethnic groups are Native Americans in
the United States, Basques in Spain, and Kurds in Iraq.
3. What is military power?
→ The armed forces of a nation (in a narrow sense) or in the wider sense, the
capabilities of a group such as a fire team, squad
4. Who is Winston Churchill?
→ Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer
who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945
during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955
5. What is his famous role in International Relations?
→ Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led
Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime
Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general
election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955.
6. What is Communist Manifesto?
