Exam 8: The Pursuit of Power Through Arms and Alliances

When a potential enemy protects itself by statelessness, the most potent form of protection from that enemy is ___________.

International law prohibits the use of chemical weapons.

Which of the following statements about power is NOT true?

Critics of President Bush's policy of preemptive war argue that

What conditions favor the effective use of coercive diplomacy?

The Eisenhower administration's policy doctrine for containing Soviet communism by pledging to respond to any act of aggression with the most destructive capabilities available, including nuclear weapons was called ___________.

In 2002, President George W. Bush called for preemptive action against communist states in an effort to contain communism.

It has always been the case that the side that spends the most on its military will win a military conflict.

Why did President Bush argue in 2002 that deterrence must give way to preemption?

Examples of relatively weak military powers that managed to prevail over significantly stronger opponents include __________.

The ability of one state to make another continue a course of action, change what it is doing, or refrain from acting is called ____________________ by political science scholars.

The capabilities or resources held by a state that are considered necessary to its asserting influence over others is known as

Japan concentrates almost all of its research expenditures on the development of products that have very little to do with military capabilities.

A fundamental international legal principle, now being challenged, that traditionally defined interference by one state in the domestic affairs of another state is illegal is called ________.

Because the anarchical global system encourages states to rely on ____________________ for protection, ____________________ is of paramount priority on policymakers' foreign policy agendas.

Defend the realist view for creating security and maintaining security.

The Cuban missile crisis and the loss of U.S. strategic superiority relative to the Soviet Union ushered in a period of ________ in U.S. foreign policy.

Which of the following is NOT considered a motive for states to sell arms?

An arming state's capacity to retaliate after an adversary's first-strike attack with weapons of mass destruction is practicing________.

Which of the following is used to describe multiple nuclear warheads that are mounted on a single missile but are capable of striking separate targets independently?