Exam 6: Realist Perspectives on Todays World: Unipolarity, Rising Powers, Asymmetric Warfare, and Ethnic Conflicts

Instead of accepting European support via Article 5 of the NATO Treaty after the 9/11 attacks, the United States formed the ________ to overthrow the government of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

According to the realist perspective, what unique feature of the post-Cold War world drives international outcomes? How do the power transition and power balancing schools view and construct international strategies for the United States around this feature?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following statements are true about Al Qaeda?

According to the simplified rational choice model, what does it mean if an actor is considered unitary?

According to power transition realists, why is it that the United States could launch a preemptive war unilaterally?

U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivered the "______" speech in 1991, warning that the United States would not support independence movements that sought to replace one form of tyranny with another.

Arguing that ethnic conflicts in failed states, such as the Taliban government in Afghanistan, provide fertile conditions for the rise of terrorism is an argument made at the ______ level of analysis.

A state that seeks systematically to acquire nuclear weapons with the possible intent of passing them on to nonstate terrorists is better known as a ______ state.

What factors accelerated or exacerbated terrorism and other asymmetric threats after the Cold War?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are critical rising powers that may challenge American hegemony?

For realists, rising powers constitute the most serious challenge to the distribution of power and hence the stability of the international order. This is an example of which type of system?

Many realists saw the expansion of NATO as necessary to back up democratic reforms in former communist countries and reassure these countries against domestic extremists who might try to destabilize the new democracies.

______ realists focus on containing, not preempting or preventing, rising powers such as China, Russia, and Japan because they view multipolarity as more stable than unipolarity.

Realists emphasize the struggle for power at the state level because states remain the most powerful actors in contemporary world affairs.

As secretary of state, ______, as well as former national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, opposed the American decision to invade Iraq because in doing so the region would be destabilized and the global war on terror would be jeopardized.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following countries were members of the coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003?

The phrase, "No borders, no country" is central to the ______ perspective.

Which of the following statements would a power balancing realist agree with as a line of action following the 9/11 attacks?

Power balancing realists view terrorism as a new global threat that cannot be dealt with through NATO.

The independence of Kosovo from Serbia is an example of partition.