Chapter 17 Multiple choice questions

. Geopolitics is…

a distinctly modern and European concept of statecraft that emerged as an approach to international politics at a time when European and later US power acquired global reach.

based on liberal theories of International Relations.

an approach whose emergence was unconnected to European imperialism.

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. Unlike understandings of great power competition and great power war prior to 1945, current discourse on rising powers foregrounds…

relative economic development.

rankings of military capabilities.

assessments of nuclear capabilities.

military readiness.

. Geopolitical identities are…

fluid.

often politically contested.

always reinterpreted in particular contexts.

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. The location of resources is…

an example of a fixed and unchanging factor of world politics.

an example of a seemingly permanent geographic factor that can be altered by the development of new technologies.

not one of the factors of physical geography.

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. Though later revived in the 1970s and 1980s, the concepts of geopolitics and grand strategy fell out of favour after the Second World War because…

geopolitical ideas had become thoroughly delegitimized by their association with Nazi Germany.

the nuclear arms race seemed to obliterate the geographic factor in world politics.

deterrence, the foundation of US military strategy during the cold war, had no connection to geopolitical reasoning; it was purely based on outarming and out-spending the Soviet Union.

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