Exam 8: Military Power and the Use of Force

The Bush Administration's war on Iraq is an example of a preemptive military attack.

Intentionally taking enormous risks in bargaining with an adversary in order to compel submission is known as

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) describes the strategic nuclear relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

The tendency for weak states to ally themselves with strong powers is to

A policy of deterrence requires second-strike capability to ensure a state can inflict an intolerable amount of damage on the state it wishes to deter.

Arms control agreements is the radical reduction or elimination of nuclear weapons.

What are the sources of power in world politics? Given the changes occurring in world politics, is the nature of power being transformed? If so, how? Given your interpretation, how might one go about measuring the power of states?

The nuclear powers of South Asia include

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty seeks to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.Many countries reject the NPT as hypocritical as it denies them the same rights and capabilities that are afforded to the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France.Analyze this argument.How can countries justify denying other countries nuclear weapons while they have no intention of giving up their own?

The strategic doctrine of nuclear compellence was used by the United States against the Soviet Union during

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed in

Power only has meaning in relative terms-a state has power only when it has the capacity to control others.

Jimmy Carter developed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the late 1970s.

Which country is the leading global weapons exporter?

Arms control is a far more common and less ambitious endeavor than disarmament.

Targeting what an adversary values the most, in the case of the Soviet Union their population and industrial centers, is called countervalue-targeting strategy.

Which of the following types of weapons were parts of the nuclear triad employed by both superpowers during the Cold War?

Realists view military strength as the primary source of national security and international influence.

The condition that results when each state's increase in military capability is matched by the other's capability, resulting in no significant gain in security for any one state is known as

How are military expenditures and economic growth linked? Some people argue that there is a trade-off between "guns and butter," because military expenditures divert resources away from growth-promoting investments.Yet other people claim that military spending stimulates economic growth.Which side of this debate do you support? Why?