Chapter 22 Self-grading Quizzes

Conflict and Development
. The term "structural violence" refers to ________.

. The liberal theory of violence sees violence as ________.

. Karl Marx and Max Weber were classical scholars who ________.

. Modernization theory assumed that as societies made the transition to modernity, ________.

. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have prompted a shift in thinking about peace-building programs ________.

. The "Arab Spring" demonstrated that attempted transitions to more democratic politics can ________.

. The UN's peace-building approach is rooted in ________.

. Groups made more vulnerable by climate change, tend to________________.

. Within political science, one approach to the study of war in relation to development is to treat war as ________.

. The literature on armed conflict tends to emphasize ___________________.

. In "Capital," Marx described the process of primitive accumulation that entailed ________.

. War has long been considered a unique category of conflict. War ________.

. The old idea that democracies and peace belong together was reborn in new research in_________.

. Most of "proxy wars" during the Cold War took place in ________.

. To many analysts, the conflicts in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union were triggered by the collapse of Cold War constraints that previously ________.

. A discussion of the relationship between development and conflict __________.

. The positivist tradition typically _____________.

. If development is understood primarily in terms of macroeconomic indicators _________.

. If development is understood primarily in terms of social development ____________.

. The grand narrative seeks to _________________.

. Development cannot be separated from conflict according to ____________.

. Capitalism is peaceful according to _____________.

. According to Weber, capitalism presupposes ________________.

. The terms "conflict," "violence," and "war" are ________________.

. War has long been considered _______________.

. The concept of a "conflict trap" is grounded in poststructuralist theory.

. The approach to development and conflict that strives to understand the process historically is called the grand narrative approach.

. Peace-building efforts by the UN are highly standardized.

. The UN in 2012 set up an "intervention brigade" tasked to carry out targeted offensive operations to neutralize armed groups that threatened state authority and civilian security.

. The term "structural violence" denotes guerrilla attacks against infrastructure.

. According to the "democratic peace" theory economic development promotes peace and democracy.

. The democratic peace theory was inspired by Hegel's text, "The Spirit of Peace."

. The "social transformation" perspective argues that violence is internal to development.

. The "Coinistas" held that the key to winning the population was avoiding large civilian casualties, establishing "good governance" in the form of representative government, basic social services, and development.

. In ideological terms, political and economic liberalism was the dominant paradigm in the post-Cold War world.

. For Marx, violence is not an element in social change.

. The political economy of war belongs to a tradition that sees violence as intertwined with development.

. The premise of the standard peace-building package was an expanded version of what was referred to earlier as "the democratic peace."

. If we understand conflict as part of development, we can more readily recognize conflict as part of the history of nations that today are "developed."

. Within political science, one approach to the study of war in relation to development is to treat war as a procedural event.

. In Weber's grand narrative capitalism emerges through rationalization of social and economic relations; therefore, it is a synonym of conflict.

. According to Weber, "Modernity," is disconnected from societies ruled primarily by reason as enshrined in predictable, efficient, and secular institutions.

. Marx and Weber analyzed the relationship between the dimensions of conflict and development statistically, using indicators from generally accessible data banks.

. The concept of structural violence was launched by peace researcher Johan Galtung in the 1950s.

. War cannot be studied by placing it in historical and sociological settings.

. Plotting "the war in Afghanistan" as one event in a database is not a good idea.

. The Taliban regime represented early state formation by re-establishing a greater central control over military force and a uniform system of social control.

. The War in Afghanistan never got to the level of an internationalized civil war.

. The notion that modernization and economic progress was going to bring stability to Afghanistan was a powerful theme in the Taliban.

. Exploiting local divisions to enhance their own interests, Canada and Australia generated "proxy wars" and associated conditions that appeared as "development in reverse" in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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