Exam 8: The Pursuit of Power Through Arms and Alliances

When country A chooses to attack country B based on a suspicion that country B might attack it sometime in the distant future, country A is engaging in which of the following?

What adjectives would a realist use to describe the characteristics of international alliances?

What trend in the USU.S. military started around the beginning of the Iraq War?

When the United States threatens or uses limited force to persuade an adversary to alter its foreign or domestic policy, the US is engaging is what practice?

Which weak military power managed to prevail over the United States?

The United States supplied weapons to the Taliban during the Soviet-Afghan War. Some of these weapons were later used by the Taliban to fight the USU.S. What is this an example of?

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. However, other people claim that military spending stimulates economic growth. Which side of this debate do you support? Why?

Military power is an important characteristic of states from a realist point of view, but states that are apparently weak seem to win a large number of armed conflicts. (a)How can we change our definition of military power to reflect this reality? (b)Are there other types of power that may be more important in predicting military victories? (c)Should states focus primarily on military power in their security decisions? Why?

What is necessary for mutually assured destruction (MAD)to work?

Which of the following countries spends the most on its military?

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

Which country is the leading global weapons exporter?

Why did some countries call for an explicit ban on AI weapons?

Power distribution in the world during the height of the Roman Empire can best be described as which of the following?

Which of the following states has the highest relative burden of military spending?

Aside from the obvious consequences of a nuclear war, such as the destruction of life and property, what other devastating outcomes might such a war bring?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." This statement by President Eisenhower exemplifies which of the following concepts?

The inability of arms suppliers to control the uses of their military hardware and the fact that friends can become foes can lead to which of the following?

What technological innovation allows many weapons to be delivered from a single missile?

What do weak states engage in when they seek alliance with the strongest power, irrespective of that power's ideology or type of government?