Deck 19: Strategic Studies and Its Critics, Columba Peoples

Question 1

Elements of the 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, were 'virtually paraphrased' from which Herman Kahn book?

A) The Wizards of Armageddon
B) Strategy in the Nuclear Age
C) On Thermonuclear War
D) Strategy and Conscience

Answer 1

C

Question 2

When was the 'Golden Age' of strategic studies?

A) The end of the Second World War until the end of the cold war
B) The middle decades of the cold war
C) The final decade of the cold war
D) The period running from the aftermath of the Second World War through to the end of the 1960s

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Who wrote the seminal article 'Strategic Studies and Its Critics'?

A) Anatol Rapoport
B) Philip Green
C) Karl Deutsch
D) Hedley Bull

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Rapoport and Green argued that strategic studies, particularly nuclear strategy, neglected what key questions?

A) Moral questions
B) Cultural questions
C) Political questions
D) Technical questions

Question 5

Which of the following underlay Rapoport and Green's criticisms of the claim of strategic studies, and especially deterrence theory, to be a scientifically rigorous field of study?

A) The assumption of rationality
B) Its use of systems analysis
C) Its use of game theory
D) All the options given are correct.

Question 6

Theorists of the 'third wave' attempted to redirect strategic studies to a focus upon cultural values, history, and 'national styles'.

Question 7

Theorists associated with the 'third wave' of strategic studies accepted prior moral critiques of strategic studies.

Question 8

Which of the following is a key challenge that critical approaches to strategic studies make regarding traditional strategic studies?

A) Traditional strategic studies is too Western-centric.
B) Traditional strategic studies is overly technical and instrumental.
C) Gender terminology leads to a sanitized, domesticated, and more permissive view of military force.
D) All the options given are correct.

Question 9

Critical approaches to strategic studies allege that it inadequately deals with post-cold war issues, particularly the changing nature of conflict.

Question 10

There has been little recent engagement between contemporary proponents and critics of strategic studies because they begin from increasingly divergent assumptions and because critics would rather develop an alternative to strategic studies that encompasses non-military issues than work to improve traditional strategic studies.