Exam 7: The Threat of Armed Conflict to the World

To ascribe the traits of a particular state leader, such as Adolf Hitler or Barak Obama, to all people in the state they lead is to commit the error of ecological fallacy.

Discuss the origins and consequences of civil war.

The communist theory of imperialism argues that war is a result of capitalism's need for new markets to generate capital.

In Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant outlined the basis of the theory of democratic peace, which states that

The September 11 terrorist attacks exposed what new feature of terrorism?

Reducing the incidence and effectiveness of terrorism while maintaining civil liberties will be difficult because

Asymmetric warfare is when one country has an overwhelming advantage over their opponent in armed conflict.

Strong nationalist sentiments keep states from engaging in war out of a fear of diminishing the state's resources through a lengthy conflict.

The new global terrorism differs from past terrorism because the main goal is to persuade, rather than maximize casualties; therefore, attacks have become less lethal.

The most common type of wars have been civil wars.

____________________ is discord, often arising in international relations over perceived incompatibilities of interest. This can escalate to ____________________, which is combat between the military forces of two or more states or groups.

The collective characteristics ascribed to the people within a state are known as the state's

The Sudanese government undertook the task of state-sponsored terrorism to instill fright in neighboring countries.

The proposition that fighting a major war is costly in terms of lost lives, income, and these costs greatly reduce a country's tolerance for undertaking another war until enough time passes to lose memory of those costs is known as (the) _________________________.

The formal assistance training and arming of foreign terrorists by a state in order to achieve foreign policy goals are known as

Economic conditions have historically been both a cause of war, both interstate and civil, and a cause of peace. What are economic factors that lead to war? What are economic factors that facilitate peace?

In his famous dictum, Karl von Clausewitz noted that war

Describe cultural conditioning and how it impacts decision making.

The school of liberal thought (opposite to realist thought) that recognizes no conditions justify the taking of another human's life is known as ____________________.

Numerous failed states offer out-of-the-way places for terrorist groups to locate and train.