Question 1

How does the discussion of state capabilities reflect the realist image of international relations?

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Question 2

Discuss a recent example of a situation where short-term, middle-term, and long-term foreign policy objectives differed.

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Question 3

To what extent should Western states criticize Chinaʹs human rights abuses, given the objective of wishing to maintain good relations with an economic dynamo and growing military power? How does this question illustrate the difficulty of prioritization of foreign policy objectives given incompatible goals?

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Question 4

How are even the most powerful of states constrained in their pursuit of national interests and objectives? Give a current example involving the United States.

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Question 5

What is the relation between the strength of the economy and military capabilities? Give an example.

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Question 6

Write a one- to two-sentence description of each of the various components of national power, indicating how you might try to measure them.

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Question 7

What important contributions did John Herz and Hans Morgenthau make to the study and practice of international relations? In what ways did they agree or disagree? What is your view on the matters they debated? Why?

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Question 8

Discuss the rationality and unitary actor assumptions often made by realists, assessing how well they hold in international relations and world politics.

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Question 9

Discuss the insights we gain from the analyses of international relations in deterrence theory and game theory, underscoring how the rational and unitary state assumptions relate to such theories or approaches.

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Question 10

Discuss how realists, liberals, economic structuralists, social constructivists, and feminists likely would accept, reject, or modify the rational framework outlined in this chapter that relates interests and capabilities to objectives framed in terms of threats and opportunities facing states as principal actors in the making of foreign policy.

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Quiz 5: Power: Interests, Objectives,and Capabilities of States