1.1 POWER - PART TWO

1.1 POWER - PART TWO

Power part one recap

REVIEW

Multiple Choice

The influence and authority deriving from the attraction that a country’s political, social, and economic ideas, beliefs, and practices have for people living in other countries.

• soft

• smart

• hard

Multiple Choice

The US has offered to remove Sudan from the State Sponsor of Terror list along with $800 MILLION in aid if they will recognize Israel and give Trump a foreign policy "win" before the election.

• soft

• hard

• smart

Fill in the Blank

In one word, what characterizes the tactics used by hard power policies?

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a soft power policy?

• A superpower threatens to use nuclear force if a smaller nation doesn't comply with its economic program

• An empire invades another nation and makes it a colony

• A major economic power uses its control of the market to force countries with weaker economies to give them deals

• A major world power provides humanitarian aid to convince a nation to voluntarily adopt a certain political system

Multiple Choice

On the morning of September 27, Armenia states that Azerbaijan launched air and artillery attacks on Nagorno-Karabakh, while Azerbaijan states it was conducting a "counter-offensive in response to military provocation."

• soft

• hard

• smart

Poll

Which type of power is the ultimate means to force another state or group to comply or change their behavior?

• economic

• structural

• military

• relational

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is necessary for military power?

• economic

• structural

• cyber

• relational

Multiple Choice

True or False, its enough to measure military power by the number of personnel under arms, for example, or the number of tanks or missile launchers in a nation’s inventory

• TRUE

• FALSE

Open Ended

Why is it dangerous to draw firm conclusions about military power from statistics about resources alone?

Multiple Choice

Gross domestic product is a measure of the total value of all

• consumer income in the economy for a period of time

• income for all citizens no matter where the citizens reside

• final goods and services produced in an economy over a period of time

• sales in an economy over a period of time

Open Ended

What could be a possible weakness of using GDP to measure the income of a country?

Social power can be found in many forms for example, laws, wealth and fame. Laws can best be understood as codified social power. Wealth lacks the authority of laws. Wealth projects its social power by shaping the beliefs of the lower classes. Fame, like wealth, draws its social power from admiration and envy. Fame can help one transmit messages better than laws or one who only has wealth.

Multiple Choice

The Cold War period illustrates which of the following?

• An imbalanced distribution of power

• A multipolar world

• None of the answers are correct

• A bipolar world

• A bilateral world

Multiple Choice

Several States decide to form an alliance to counteract the influence of a very powerful State. What concept does this situation describe?

• Multipolar system

• Balance of power

• Bipolar system

• Power play

• None of the answers are correct

Multiple Select

REALIST BELIEVE...

• States will act in their self-interests

• Hard power

• Power and force are not the only factors; world can be driven by ideas

• Force and war are primary tools of the international system

• Cooperation is the dominant theme

Multiple Select

LIBERALIST BELIEVE...

• Globalism matters; states are not the only central actors

• Soft power

• Power and force are not the only factors; world can be driven by ideas

• States are more powerful when they work together

• Power should be distributed amongst a wide range of organizations, groups and processes

Emmanuel Kant

Multiple Choice

Between World War I and World War II, the academic perspective known as realism developed. According to this perspective:

• the world is a dangerous place and people are self-interested at best.

• the solution to the problem of international security was to create the League of Nations.

• the world was neither a good place nor a bad place; it was simply the place where humans lived.

• humans are perfectible if they are taught to be kind to one another.

Multiple Choice

This comic depicts what theoretical approach

• liberalism

• realism

Multiple Choice

According to Realism, power transitions are characterized by

• danger and conflict

• increased trade

• peaceful democratic progress in areas of shared interest

• nothing out of the ordinary

Multiple Choice

Geopolitical competition is on the rise as China and Russia seek to exert more sway over their neighboring regions and promote an order in which US influence does not dominate.

• Power transition

• Power diffusion