Deck 12: Foreign and Defense Policy: Security and Interests in a Dangerous World

Question 1

Realists are willing to engage in

A)power politics
B)sanctions
C)limited war for limited objectives
D)diplomacy

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Wilsonian Idealism approach to diplomacy means that

A)Americans are more likely to exercise the Idealist policy
B)Repeated efforts to negotiate with implacable enemies without pre-conditions
C)Repeated offers to negotiate with the implied use of force
D)None of the above
E)All of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The exercise of American military power is less credible because of

A)Fear of Russian retaliation
B)Cuts in the defense budget
C)The lack of public support
D)Fear of Al-Qaeda forces

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The notion that soldiers and government officials in sovereign nations are obliged to disobey laws and policies that violate universal standards of justice is commonly referred to as:

A)The Nuremberg Principle
B)The Dresden Principle
C)The Tokyo Edict
D)None of the Above

Question 5

The spheres of influence concept acknowledges American vital interests at stake in the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe but modern technology means that

A)Mexico and Canada have greater influence
B)U.S.interests are no longer defined only geographically
C)It cost less to conduct business
D)South American countries inters impact American interests

Question 6

The Obama administration successfully found and killed Osama bin Laden

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a part of Wilsonian idealism?

A)Balance of power
B)The Nuremburg Principle
C)Emphasis on diplomacy
D)Spheres of interest

Question 8

Balance of Power is the concept that no one power or coalition of power should be allowed to gain dominating power as to be able to dictate the terms of the relationship among nations.This is done by

A)playing a game of chess
B)bribing the stronger power with needed resources
C)shifting alliances so that one power always allies with the weaker of competing states or alliances
D)working through the resources of the United Nations

Question 9

The policy of containment was aimed at

A)rolling back communism
B)limiting the expansion of communism
C)preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
D)preventing the spread of oil pollution

Question 10

The Cold War policy of resisting any further encroachment of governments labeled communist was ____________.

A)idealism
B)collective security
C)Nuremberg principles
D)containment
E)deterrence

Question 11

The principle that nations have a greater interest in territories contiguous to their borders than other parts of the world is reflected in

A)SALT treaty
B)Yalta Agreement
C)Kellogg-Briand Pact
D)The Monroe Doctrine

Question 12

Gulf War I in which the U.S.sided with Kuwait against Saddam Hussein was done

A)To maintain the balance of power
B)Because of diplomacy
C)To prevent hegemony
D)To exercise its sphere of influence

Question 13

Collective security is defined by several assumptions,but not

A)That war a normal policy instrument
B)Preponderance of states share value of peaceful coexistence
C)States want to prevent aggression
D)States will to subordinate their national interest for the collective good

Question 14

The United States Cold War strategy of relying on massive nuclear power to deter Soviet encroachment on US interests is called

A)Chicken
B)Deterrence
C)Detente
D)Hegemony

Question 15

Realists argue that the United States should not get involved in Rwanda or Sudan genocide,but should try to halt the ethnic cleansing of the former Yugoslavia because

A)Rwanda and Sudan are African countries.
B)the U.S.has more Yugoslavian residents than Africans
C)the U.S.has more interests at stake in the affairs of Central Europe
D)ethnic cleansing is worse than genocide

Question 16

Realism identifies the resources involved in creating the threat of punishment.Those resources include

A)economic power
B)the appeal of one's principle
C)military might
D)all of the above
E)(B) and (C) only

Question 17

Realists' view of resources used to create rewards or punishments does not include:

A)Economic power
B)Military might
C)Arm's sales
D)Appeals to principle

Question 18

Which of the following statements is true of classical diplomacy?

A)There is no universal self-evident principle of justice, right or wrong or truth that nations are morally obligated to pursue.
B)There is wide-spread public support for the policy of genocide.
C)The universal principle of justice is self-evident to all reasonable people.
D)It presumes that communism is a bad thing.

Question 19

Deterrence as a strategy is based on

A)the merits of the policy goals
B)the justice of the respective policy goals
C)power politics
D)making the first strike

Question 20

Realists criticized United States involvement in the Vietnam War because

A)we didn't have sufficient national interests to warrant the cost in resources and manpower
B)it was unwinnable
C)it was a violation of the Monroe Doctrine
D)there is no common border with Southeast Asia.

Question 21

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an example of

A)The Iron Curtain
B)The Warsaw Pact
C)Collective security arrangement
D)Containment

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT associated with foreign policy regarding Israel?

A)PLO
B)intifada
C)land for peace perspective
D)Contras
E)Gaza Strip

Question 23

During the Cold War,the guiding principle of U.S.foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union was

A)Collective security
B)NATO
C)The Nuremburg Principle
D)Containment

Question 24

The Oslo Process (Oslo Accords)was an effort to settle which ongoing dispute?

A)The Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war
B)The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
C)The Sinhalese-Tamil conflict
D)The Spanish civil war

Question 25

American policy toward the communist countries shortly after the Second World War would best be described as:

A)detente
B)liberation
C)containment
D)support

Question 26

Which of the following factors were important in leading to the end of the Cold War?

A)results of the Vietnam War
B)the collapse of communism
C)antagonism between Communist China and the Soviet Union
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 27

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)are examples of

A)unilateralism
B)the principle of collective security
C)balance of power
D)deterrence

Question 28

There are a number of strong and well-armed Palestinian groups who declared their intent to destroy the Jewish state.This list does not include:

A)Islamic Jihad
B)Hezbollah
C)Hamas
D)Palestinian Authority

Question 29

Unilateralism is the principle that nationals are responsible for getting assistance to help preserve their national interests

Question 30

According to the authors,the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was

A)a justification for action in pursuit of national interests
B)ideological conflict
C)the start of the Cold War
D)an example of communist expansion

Question 31

The failure of the collective security provision to pass the United Nations due to the lack of unanimous agreement by the great powers led to the creation of the ___________________.

A)iron curtain
B)Warsaw Pact
C)SEATO
D)NATO

Question 32

The "intifada" refers to

A)uprisings of fundamentalist Moslems in the Middle East.
B)the invasion of Arab territory by Israel.
C)uprisings of Shi'ite Moslems in Iran.
D)the Israeli invasion of the Golan Heights.
E)uprisings of Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Question 33

President George W.Bush's administration was criticized for attacking Iraq because it was considered an act of unilateralism.

Question 34

Acquiescing to Russian President Putin's seizure of Russian speaking segment of Ukraine in 2014 is considered by the authors to be an example

A)Containment
B)Appeasement
C)Sovereignty
D)Unilateralism

Question 35

"Terrorism" may be defined as

A)any action that kills civilians
B)random violence against non-combatants
C)violence to compel a nation to change its policies
D)all of the above
E)the combination of (B) and (C)

Question 36

_________ consists of random,devastating violence against noncombatant populations to compel another power to change its policies.

A)Terrorism
B)Containment
C)Deterrence
D)Collective security

Question 37

The "Road Map" for Israeli-Palestinian peace was put forward by the _______ Administration.

A)Clinton
B)Bush
C)Carter
D)Reagan

Question 38

•What is the realist approach to foreign policy?
•What is the idealist approach to foreign policy?
•Define terrorism and discuss the options that idealist see for confronting it and the options that realists see for confronting it.
•What diplomacy policy are President Obama and Secretary Kerry following?
•Describe George W.Bush's War on Terror and the enemies that the U.S.was combatting.
•How was NATO used by the United States and United Nations during the breakup of Yugoslavia? During the Bosnian Crisis?
•Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke of the Pottery Barn policy,"you break it,you own it" in regards to military actions in the Middle East.Have we broken Iraq?
•Explain how the Nuremberg Principle might be applied in the Iraq War,i.e.,Abu Ghraib scandal,water boarding and Guantanamo Bay prison.
•What was the Monroe Doctrine and how has it principles been violated by every president since President Franklin Roosevelt?
•What was the rationale for the President Clinton's administration not getting the United States involved in the genocide in Rwanda but getting involved in the former Yugoslavia conflict? Was this decision in keeping with the idealist conception that America should fight injustice wherever it occurs?

Question 39

The vast majority of American support of the nation of Israel consists mainly of

A)building supplies
B)military aid
C)Peace corps workers
D)Surplus food items

Question 40

Israel in 2005 withdrew from the _____________.

A)West Bank
B)Golan Heights
C)Gaza Strip
D)East Bank