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

The simplified rational choice model does not assume that actors have access to complete information.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. If decision makers are assumed to be rational actors, which of the following assumptions holds?

Terrorism and cyber warfare are examples of ______, a type of conflict in which the weak exploit technology and psychology to target the peripheral vulnerabilities of the strong.

The slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 is an example of which of the following?

______ was a transnational nongovernmental network run by a top Pakistani scientist that sold nuclear technology and equipment to rogue states.

Power transition realists in the Pentagon, led by which secretary of defense, drafted a strategy document that called on the United States to forestall the emergence of any challenger to American predominance?

Terrorism and cyber warfare are examples of ______, a type of conflict in which the weak exploit technology and psychology to target the peripheral vulnerabilities of the strong.

The power transition school of realism sees war as most likely when which of the following occurs?

Terrorism and piracy are not examples of asymmetric threat or warfare.

The military-industrial complex includes which of the following?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The global war on terror involved which two of the following types of states?

The power transition school of realists sees wars arising from movement away from ______ and toward ______.

______, an example of cyber warfare, was a computer worm that the United States and Israel deployed in 2010 that crippled Iranian nuclear installations by temporarily disabling centrifuges.

The term BRICS refers to countries that have benefitted from the enormous expansion of the global economy following the end of the Cold War and includes Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, China, and South Korea.

The ______ level of analysis describes the realist argument that American dominance influenced former defense secretary Dick Cheney's prioritization of expanding American power over spreading democracy.

According to the realist perspective, alliances were no longer essential to the balance of power following the end of the Cold War.

The realist perspective would most likely call attention to which feature of the post-Cold War international system?

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.

The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, established in 1960, guarantees U.S. support for the defense of Japan but does not obligate Japan to support the United States militarily.

The ______ level of analysis highlights the psychological factors that affect foreign policy decision making.