AS31003 WORLD POLITICAL ISSUES

What is meant by the Thucydides Trap?

• A situation where two countries cooperate

  economically to avoid war.

• A condition where a rising power threatens

  to displace an existing dominant power,

  potentially leading to conflict.

• 1. A diplomatic strategy used to prevent foreign interference in domestic affairs..

• 1. A proxy war between two major powers fought in a third country without direct involvement.

3 great powers largely shaped regional development:

• The United State

• North Korea

• Japan

• China

• India

Cold War period:

• 1945-1992

• 1945-1980

• 1945-1990

• 1945-1982

What do realists and neorealists consider to be the real cause of the Cold War?

• 1. Ideological differences between the United States and the Soviet Union

• 1. Power vacuum in Central Europe and East Asia

• Nuclear arms race

• 1. Soviet Union's expansionist policies

According to liberals, what factor prevented the elimination of conflict between the two superpowers during the Cold War?

• 1. Military competition

• 1. Lack of economic cooperation due to ideological differences

• Arms race

• Power Vacuum in Europe

What do constructivists view as the main source of conflict during the Cold War?

• Economic Inequality

• Ideological propaganda

• Contrasting identities of the superpowers

• Competition for resources

How do Marxists interpret the Cold

War?

• As a result of power vacuum

• As a class struggle within the superpowers

• As a form of Western imperialism dominating weaker peripheral countries

• As a miscommunication between leaders

Why was the Yalta Conference (1945)

significant in the context of the Cold War?

• It marked the official beginning of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

• It resolved all territorial disputes between the Allied powers after World War Il.

• It laid the groundwork for post-war Europe and exposed tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.

• It created NATO to counter Soviet influence in Eastern Europe.

Cold War impact :

• Russia - Ukraine Conflict

• Cuban missile Crisis

• Tianamen Square 1989

• South China Sea Dispute

Which country that Soviets Union decided to invade in the Middle East 1979?

• Iraq

• Iran

• Pakistan

• Afghanistan