Deck 10: States and Their Challengers

Question 1

According to the map in Figure 10.1 in the text, conflicts are disproportionately carried out in:

A) wealthy countries
B) poor countries
C) northern countries
D) European countries

Answer 1

poor countries

Question 2

In 2001, the National Defense Council Foundation identified how many conflict zones?

A) 59
B) 12
C) 29
D) 88

Answer 2

59

Question 3

According to the Congressional Research Service, how much was the United States' total arms sales in 2011?

A) $12.9 billion
B) $47.3 billion
C) $68.2 million
D) $66.2 billion

Answer 3

$66.2 billion

Question 4

Some countries to which the United States has sold arms include:

A) Iraq
B) Libya
C) Israel
D) all of the above

Question 5

How many people did Brzezinski (1993) estimate were killed by wars and genocide in the twentieth century?

A) 167,000,000
B) 65,000,000
C) 25,000,000
D) 871,000,000

Question 6

How many factors have elevated the importance of nonrenewable resources to a security concern?

A) 4
B) 3
C) 9
D) 11

Question 7

Which ministry was the first to be occupied by U.S. troops during the Iraq invasion in 2001?

A) the water ministry
B) the coal ministry
C) the oil ministry
D) the diamond ministry

Question 8

Huntington states that civilizations are defined by how many elements?

A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 2

Question 9

Which of the following are referred to as "fault line wars"?

A) the Soviet-Afghan war of 1979
B) the U.S. and Iraq
C) the U.S. and Afghanistan
D) all of the above

Question 10

Between 2000 and 2014, ExxonMobil increased their market value by how much?

A) only a few billion
B) almost double what it had been
C) only a few million
D) Their market value did not increase.

Question 11

According to the text, the richest 300 people in the world have more wealth than the bottom:

A) million
B) 100 million
C) 3 billion
D) 1 billion

Question 12

According to the text, in 2014, the total estimated worth of the world's richest 300 people was:

A) 3.7 trillion dollars
B) 500 billion dollars
C) 1.2 trillion dollars
D) 10 trillion dollars

Question 13

According to the text, police and public officials are routinely murdered in:

A) Canada
B) Ireland
C) North Mexico
D) the United States

Question 14

One of the emergent forms of moving commerce internationally is:

A) carrier pigeon
B) donkeys
C) containerized cargo
D) none of these

Question 15

How many people across the world own cell phones?

A) 50 million
B) more than 6 billion
C) 800 million
D) 2 billion

Question 16

Fighters used Skype to plan attacks in what country?

A) Mexico
B) Afghanistan
C) China
D) Lybia

Question 17

In what country did rebels use Gameboy consoles to control homemade tanks with remote controlled machine guns?

A) Egypt
B) Syria
C) Pakistan
D) India

Question 18

The Failed States Index is published:

A) annually
B) biannually
C) once a decade
D) every two years

Question 19

Feral cities typically arise from:

A) strong, secure states
B) rural areas
C) weak and failing states
D) great wealth

Question 20

Discuss the factors associated with warlike conflicts and one way in which global warming may exacerbate things.

Question 21

Define nation-states, and explain three of the emergent threats they face.

Question 22

Explain the Treaty of Westphalia and its relevance, or non-relevance, today.

Question 23

List and describe five examples of how modern technology has been and/or is being used for criminal ends.

Question 24

Define the term "feral city," and then explain the context in which feral cities arise.