2021 AIR242 Quiz
Instructions 1) Students must answer 4 questions from the list (of 8) below. 2) Each answer should be no longer than 450 words. 3) No references, footnotes, citations or bibliographies should be used or included. Answers which contain any of the above will be penalised.
4) Answers should be submitted as a PDF or Word doc and uploaded to the quiz assessment box on the unit’s CloudDeakin site by 8pm on Friday, 8 October 2021. Go to: Assessment > Assignments > Assessment Task 2: Online Quiz
5) No extensions, deferments or additional time will be approved. Answers submitted after the due date and time will not be markpri.
Questions
1. Why are there so many different theories of International Relations?
2. Why were liberals so optimistic about the post Cold War period?
3. What was the basis of classical realism’s critique of liberalism?
4. Why were neorealists so fearful about the end of the Cold War?
5. What does the English School believe is absent from realist accounts of international politics?
6. What does Marxism tell us about the forces of economic globalisation today?
7. Explain what critical theory or postmodernism have added to our understanding of the way international politics is studied.
8. Of the conceptual theories we have examined in the unit, which one do you find most persuasive and why?
