Question 1

______ realists focus on containing, not preempting or preventing, rising powers such as China, Russia, and Japan because they view multipolarity as more stable than unipolarity.

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Question 2

What are the key assumptions of the simplified rational choice model, which the realist perspective emphasizes as the key foreign policy decision-making process?

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Question 3

The global war on terror involved both ______ and failed states.

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Question 4

The ______ was a worldwide military campaign to defeat nonstate terrorist groups and the rogue states that support them.

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Question 5

What is partition? What is the key disadvantage of partition from the realist perspective?

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Question 6

The ______ school of realism advocates equilibrium and coexistence and seeks to reduce American hegemony by accommodating rising powers.

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Question 7

According to the realist perspective, what unique feature of the post-Cold War world drives international outcomes? How do the power transition and power balancing schools view and construct international strategies for the United States around this feature?

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Question 8

______ are groups of people among whom ethnic and national identities overlap substantially, such as the Arab and Israeli peoples.

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Question 9

Instead of accepting European support via Article 5 of the NATO Treaty after the 9/11 attacks, the United States formed the ______ to overthrow the government of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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Question 10

How did the shift between U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both change and perpetuate American foreign policy toward terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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Question 11

Terrorism and cyber warfare are examples of ______, a type of conflict in which the weak exploit technology and psychology to target the peripheral vulnerabilities of the strong.

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Question 12

Some realists see partition as incentivizing ______, or the systematic persecution, torture, and killing or removal of a religious or ethnic group with the intent to take over the territory of that group.

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Question 13

What is asymmetric threat and warfare? Define three forms of asymmetric threat and warfare.

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Question 14

U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivered the "______" speech in 1991, warning that the United States would not support independence movements that sought to replace one form of tyranny with another.

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Question 15

The power transition school of realists sees wars arising from movement away from ______ and toward ______.

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Question 16

What factors accelerated or exacerbated terrorism and other asymmetric threats after the Cold War?

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Question 17

As secretary of state, ______, as well as former national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, opposed the American decision to invade Iraq because in doing so the region would be destabilized and the global war on terror would be jeopardized.

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Question 18

______ was a transnational nongovernmental network run by a top Pakistani scientist that sold nuclear technology and equipment to rogue states.

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Question 19

______, an example of cyber warfare, was a computer worm that the United States and Israel deployed in 2010 that crippled Iranian nuclear installations by temporarily disabling centrifuges.

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Question 20

Analysts sometimes call the struggle among allies for supremacy against the United States following the Cold War the "______."

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Quiz 6: Realist Perspectives on Todays World: Unipolarity, Rising Powers, Asymmetric Warfare, and Ethnic Conflicts