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

According to the realist perspective, how does a country undertake soft balancing?

The global war on terror involved both ______ and failed states.

Terrorism is an example of which of the following concepts?

The ______ was a worldwide military campaign to defeat nonstate terrorist groups and the rogue states that support them.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are examples of interest groups?

If economic sanctions against Iran fail, power balancing realists prefer to let Iran acquire nuclear weapons and then contain it thereafter by deterrence, rather than launch a preemptive war against Iran.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Key assumptions of the simplified rational choice model include which of the following?

Soft balancing refers to counterbalancing a dominant power through rivalry, diplomatic disagreement, and economic challenges, rather than force.

How did the shift between U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both change and perpetuate American foreign policy toward terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

According to the realist perspective, unless partition is accompanied by an effective balance of power, partition merely stimulates competitive armament and instability.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The military-industrial complex includes which of the following?

What are the key assumptions of the simplified rational choice model, which the realist perspective emphasizes as the key foreign policy decision-making process?

Which perspective would most likely argue that the United States suffered a significant loss of prestige as a result of acting unilaterally in Afghanistan?

Power balancing realists anticipate the return of multipolarity and, therefore, focus on containing, not preempting or preventing, the rise of powers.

From a realist perspective, the global war on terror involved only nonstate actors and could be handled through international police and courts.

______ are groups of people among whom ethnic and national identities overlap substantially, such as the Arab and Israeli peoples.

According to the realist perspective, smaller powers seek responsibility but contribute few capabilities, so they seek to restrain larger powers through multilateralism and international institutions.

The ______ level of analysis describes the realist view of counterbalancing that highlights the use of asymmetric threat and warfare by weak actors to resist powerful actors.

What is asymmetric threat and warfare? Define three forms of asymmetric threat and warfare.

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