Exam 4: Great Power Relations and Rivalries

In his book Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler urged Germans to

How did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other world leaders use appeasement in their strategy of dealing with Hitler and Nazi Germany?

In his book Mein Kampf , Hitler urged Germany to recover territories taken by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I.

The leaders of what three states met at the Yalta Conference to design a new world order?

From World War II to the Cold War, the distribution of power in the global system shifted from _____ to _____.

What event led to the demise of détente?

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 was a multilateral treaty that outlawed

Describe the contending interpretations of the causes of the Cold War's end using the realist and liberal perspectives.  Be sure to identify which level of analysis you are suing in your answer.   (a) Which interpretation would fit best with the realist theory of world politics? (b) Which would align with liberalism? (c) Which interpretation do you think is more accurate? Why?

An example of a hegemon would be Spain in the sixteenth century or the United States in modern times.

Evaluate the idea that a world hegemon creates stability in the global system. What are the pros and cons of this theory? If, as some political scientists predict, U.S. hegemony is coming to an end what does this mean for the global community as a whole? What system might take its place? In your opinion, will the world be better or worse off? Will the United States be better or worse off?

Nationalism, which is defined as a mind-set glorifying a particular state and the nationality group living in it, may have been an underlying cause of World War I.

Many scholars believe that the Treaty of Versailles

The idea that nationalism contributed to the cause of World War I focuses on which level of analysis?

One of the consequences of the end of the Cold War was the emergence of a multipolar distribution of power.

It is easy for a hegemon to engage in unilateralism, or an approach to foreign policy that relies on independent, self-help strategies in foreign policy.  What might be the downside to pursuing unilateralism as a foreign policy strategy?

One of the criticisms of long-cycle theory is that it does not allow for the actions of policy makers.

Linkage strategy is the idea that leaders should take a country's overall behavior into account when reaching agreements so as to link cooperation with rewards.

Which event is commonly accepted as signifying the end of the Cold War?

Structuralism emerged as the dominant theory of global analysis in the nineteenth century when Russia was the dominant power in world politics.

The rationalist view of the cause of World War I states that