Exam 18: International Political Relations

The last nation states gradually disappeared during the late Middle Ages.

U.S. foreign policy during most of the nineteenth century was isolationist.

During the century that followed the Congress of Vienna (1815), a fairly effective:

The European Union has a common currency used by most of its member nations.

The U.S. president can declare war.

There are some nation-states that do not have a common language or cultural background.

Many were convinced that under President George W. Bush, the U.S. saw itself as above the international community and was willing to rely on its military power to achieve its ends.

In the beginning of the twenty-first century, the United States was a country with almost indisputable superior military power, called a:

The election of Barack Obama in 2009 brought a shift towards unilateral foreign policy and continued preemption.

As of 2009, there were nine cable providers in the U.S. that carried the Al Jazeera network.

After World War II, the balance of power was between a Western bloc (U.S. led) and an Eastern bloc (U.S.S.R. led).

Of all the sources of power, political power is the most important.

When nations join the European Union they merge their government into the EU's government.

The current structure of the U.S. democratic system clearly:

In 2010, NATO had _______ member states.