Exam 18: International Political Relations

The theory in which a balance of power with two competing nations was necessary to maintain peace was:

In the U.S. government, the right to appoint and receive foreign diplomats is assigned to the:

In the 1990s, NATO lost much of its former purpose and:

Today, an easing or relaxation of strained relations and political tensions between countries seems to have replaced:

The relationship between geography and security that foreign policy makers attempt to consider is called:

Ideologues are individuals who:

Throughout much of the nineteenth century, the United States was committed to a policy of:

In the U.S. government, the president has little control of diplomacy.

A military hegemonic state has unlimited power.

The 1980s and 1990s have seen:

Since World War I, the three most prevalent ideologies have been fascist, democratic capitalist, and communist ideology.

England was one of the first nations-states.

Military power is:

In the 2003 Iraq War, some members of the press were "embedded" within military units.

What is the nature of national power? What are the sources of national power? How and why is national power limited? What recent examples show how the will of the United States is limited by social and cultural conventions?

All states lack sovereignty.

What are isolationism, interventionism, internationalism, and preemption and what roles have they played in the history of U.S. foreign policy?

Why and how do geography and ideology affect foreign policies of sovereign states? What is geopolitics? What three ideologies have been most important in twentieth century international relations? Where in the world can examples of these ideologies can be found?

In the world community how do sovereign states maintain their security? What are the differences between the balance of power and the theory of complex interdependence?

The dominant global ideology today is: