Deck 18: International Political Relations

Question 1

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

A) Senate.
B) House of Representatives.
C) Supreme Court.
D) president.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

A) monopoly.
B) détente.
C) coalition.
D) hegemon.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In 2010, NATO had _______ member states.

A) 4
B) 28
C) 75
D) 100

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Generally speaking, foreign policies of a state are designed to:

A) help all nations prosper.
B) achieve equal distribution of power.
C) insure mutual respect and advance the needs of all states.
D) serve the national interests of the state.

Question 5

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

A) actually lost many members.
B) became completely unimportant.
C) ceased to exist.
D) expanded in membership.

Question 6

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

A) ideology.
B) frontier security.
C) boundary maintenance.
D) geopolitics.

Question 7

The dominant global ideology today is:

A) democratic capitalism
B) communist ideology.
C) fascist ideology.
D) unilateralism.

Question 8

The 1980s and 1990s have seen:

A) almost no change in communism.
B) enormous change in communism.
C) the continued expansion of communism everywhere.
D) no need for communist countries to change economic policies.

Question 9

Military power is:

A) unlimited.
B) not limited by the will to use military power.
C) limited by social, political and cultural conventions.
D) never affected by public opinion.

Question 10

Ideologues are individuals who:

A) can tolerate many different ideas.
B) can study ideologies in an objective manner.
C) are interested in the study of all ideologies but cannot decide which one is the best.
D) are so fixated on certain ideologies that they cannot reasonably examine opposing ideas.

Question 11

The president's authority in foreign affairs is augmented by:

A) the vice president's role as foreign minister.
B) the president's ability to name ambassadors without consent.
C) the president's commander-in-chief of the armed forces role.
D) the cabinet's role in enacting treaty legislation.

Question 12

Which of the various forms of power is the most important?

A) moral
B) public opinion
C) economic
D) military

Question 13

What is today known as the European Union began forming in:

A) 1919.
B) 1951.
C) 1990.
D) 2001.

Question 14

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

A) balance of power existed with no wars.
B) balance of terror existed because of the constant world wars.
C) balance of power was maintained.
D) peace persisted with no power adjustments.

Question 15

The primary reason for the formation of the European Union was to form:

A) a collective defense against Communism.
B) a common market and a political union.
C) a common currency.
D) a new nation-state.

Question 16

Which of the following countries chose not to adopt the euro?

A) Britain and Denmark
B) France and Netherlands
C) Spain
D) Germany

Question 17

In international relations, the capacity to compel another party to commit an act contrary to its explicitly stated will is called:

A) policy expansion.
B) negotiation based on weakness.
C) reasoning enhancement.
D) power.

Question 18

The fascist ideology holds that the nation, the people and the culture will be made great by the:

A) political system.
B) economic system.
C) religious system.
D) leader.

Question 19

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

A) the theory of Complex Interdependence.
B) the New World order theory.
C) the Formal Alliance.
D) realist theory.

Question 20

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

A) divides the war power functions.
B) indicates that only the president can make war.
C) shows that only Congress can involve U.S. troops in a war zone.
D) does not unambiguously divide war powers between the presidency and Congress.

Question 21

All states lack sovereignty.

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

A) empire building in Africa.
B) colonial expansion on every continent.
C) isolationism.
D) deep involvement in the wars in Europe.

Question 25

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

Question 26

The basis of peace in the Cold War was:

A) the lack of international competition.
B) the power of the United Nations to disarm all nations.
C) a nuclear stand-off.
D) the mutual trust of the two superpowers.

Question 27

After World War II, the policy of the U.S. to help any country threatened by communist aggression was called the:

A) Roosevelt Plan.
B) Truman Doctrine.
C) Eisenhower Contract.
D) Kennedy Decree.

Question 28

Autocratic governments have direct control over foreign opinion.

Question 29

One of a country's major sources of power is dependable access to adequate supplies of raw materials.

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

A) the purely economic struggles of the past Cold War.
B) the ideological rivalries of the Cold War.
C) the cooperation among all nations during the Cold War.
D) religious conflicts everywhere.

Question 32

A military hegemonic state has unlimited power.

Question 33

The containment of communism approach to U.S. foreign policy lost favor:

A) following U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
B) before the Korean War.
C) during World War II.
D) before the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

In 1997, NATO worked out a cooperative agreement with Russia.

Question 37

England was one of the first nations-states.

Question 38

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

Question 39

Economic power has never been important in international relations.

Question 40

Weapons of mass destruction were an issue in the Iraq War.

Question 41

What does the term state mean in international relations? What are the characteristics of a state? Why and how have nation-states been important in the history of international relations?

Question 42

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.

Question 43

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

Question 44

With the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini, fascism disappeared as a political ideology.

Question 45

The war on terrorism pitted the United States not against a particular country but an enemy who could be anywhere.

Question 46

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

Question 47

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?

Question 48

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

Question 49

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?

Question 50

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).

Question 51

The state is the institution empowered to conduct international relations for its citizens.

Question 52

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

Question 53

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

Question 54

The U.S. president can declare war.

Question 55

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?