Question 1

Security threats that arise from within include

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A)  Terrorist attacks. 
B)  Insurgencies. 
C)  Coups. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 2

List the elements of power.

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Question 3

Discuss the role of political will in relation to great powers.

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Question 4

Discuss the benefits and costs of maintaining a military. Discuss how realists and liberals view the U.S.-China relationship.

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Question 5

The security dilemma involves

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A)  Deciding in which kinds of weapons to invest. 
B)  States increasing each other's insecurity by measures taken to bolster their own security. 
C)  Attempting to compel another nation to undertake some action. 
D)  Deciding how much money should be invested in the military and how much should be spent on social needs.

Question 6

Discuss interstate conflict and intrastate conflict. Be sure to discuss the perils of outside intervention in internal conflicts. Provide examples of each kind of conflict.

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Question 7

What is "smart power"?

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Question 8

Which country has found itself in a particularly strong position to wield economic power through soft power and its near monopoly of rare earth elements?

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A)  The United States 
B)  China 
C)  Japan 
D)  Germany

Question 9

Forcing someone to do something he or she otherwise would not do or desist from doing something he or she intended to do or has begun is

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A)  Deterrence. 
B)  Compellence. 
C)  Defense. 
D)  Soft power.

Question 10

Economic power can be wielded in all of the following ways except

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A)  Building a powerful navy. 
B)  Reducing or eliminating trade and investment. 
C)  Offering trade and investment opportunities. 
D)  Making access to resources contingent on concession.

Question 11

The argument that war is the outcome of enmities established by distrust or fomented by negative experience is from which school of thought?

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A)  Neorealism 
B)  Liberalism 
C)  Constructivism 
D)  Feminism

Question 12

The ability to influence others to see their interests as coincident with your own is known as

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A)  Soft power. 
B)  Hard power. 
C)  Smart power. 
D)  Related power.

Question 13

Aggressive realism was first introduced by

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A)  Kenneth N. Waltz. 
B)  John Mearsheimer. 
C)  Glenn Snyder. 
D)  Hans Morgenthau.

Question 14

MAD is credited with having prevented war between

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A)  The United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. 
B)  The United States and China in the 1990s. 
C)  Russia and Israel in 2000. 
D)  France and China in the 1970s.

Question 15

Offensive realism was first introduced by

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A)  Kenneth N. Waltz. 
B)  John Mearsheimer. 
C)  Glenn Snyder. 
D)  Hans Morgenthau.

Question 16

The process of naming something or someone as a threat, thereby giving government responsibility to respond to it and elevating it to a priority, is

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A)  Burden-sharing. 
B)  Securitization. 
C)  Labeling. 
D)  Hardening.

Question 17

In internal wars, great powers are disadvantaged by

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A)  Relative resolve. 
B)  Inadequate knowledge of the actors, the place, or the stakes. 
C)  Costs of intervention. 
D)  Both a and b

Question 18

Discuss the disadvantages for great powers in intervening in internal conflicts.

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Question 19

Discuss the elements of power. After each is explained, compare and contrast two current states in terms of their power.

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Exam 7: Security Theory and Practice