POSC240 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Security Dilemma, Core Countries, Notoav

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC240
• Professor: Ellena Kenny

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Politics exam questions: what to answer: how the different types of systems say about how states matter, how states interact and why they do what they do/ what their goals are. Use concrete examples: realism: population, states are the key actors in interaction as they are representative of the, they interact based off that there is global anarchy and every state is for itself so to speak. Alliances are formed in case of war and for bigger countries to extend their reach: they strive to be the strongest, thus extending their power to gain more. They don"t want to depend on others and strongly believe in self-help. They also believe that security is relative and there can only be one winner: one example: is most obviously the cold war between the soviet. The massive dislike for the war that soon followed showed us officials that it needed to be ended.