International Politics

Yanıt Açıklaması: The term ‘regionalism’ has two connotations in the negative and positive meaning. In the negative sense, regionalism implies an “excessive attachment to one’s region to prefer to the country or the state”. When looked at its positive sense, it is “a political attribute associated with people’s love for their region, culture, language, etc.” by the view of maintaining the independent identity.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Kenneth Waltz was the first scholar to use the three-level analysis methodology in foreign policy analysis. He has defined the three levels as images. According to his classification, foreign policy can be analyzed at three levels: the system referring to the structure and the interaction of the states, the state referring to the internal affairs of the states and the individual referring to the foreign policy decision makers (Waltz, 1959).

Yanıt Açıklaması: The answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The European Commission defines violent extremism (VE) as “The use of and support for violence in pursuit of ideological, religious or political goals.” The concept of VE is not limited to be part of a violent act. Supporting, advocating, planning, organizing etc. such kinds of attacks are also regarded as components of VE.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In 2003, in Sri Lanka and Birmanya, Buddhist monks encouraged people to attack Muslims and even took part in the attacks killing dozens of Muslims. Similarly, in 2017 only, an ultranationalist Buddhist group called Ma Ba Tha, led by Ashin Wirathu, ignited violence against Muslims in Rohingya.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Classical Realism and Neo-realism as a whole body of Realist paradigm share some common assumptions that are key in understanding security in international politics. These common assumptions are: 1) International system is anarchic; 2) Power is the defining notion of state behaviors in the anarchic international environment; 3) States are the most important units/actors in international politics; and 4) States are unitary and rational actors. Choice A "International corporations are the most important units/actors in international politics." is not a common assumption of Classical Realism and Neo-realism. So the correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: International organizations undertake a number of operational functions, including resource allocation, provision of technical aid, force deployment, etc.

Yanıt Açıklaması: As war is always a possibility among states, the anarchic international system, as Realists cite from Thomas Hobbes, implies a “war of all against all”. Mistrust is the common attitude of states towards each other in an anarchic international system and states cannot rely on any promises of other states or international institutions, but only on themselves, self-help (Terriff et al., 1999: 31-32).