Chapter 04 Check My Learning Quiz

In 2014, Russia annexed

Latvia.

Georgia.

Finland.

Crimea.

According to Marxists, democratic decision making is just a(n) ______ for powerful financial and industrial elites.

Smokescreen.

Asset.

Impediment.

Support.

Dependency theory was a response to

Economic growth.

Liberal modernization.

The welfare state.

Sustainable development.

In which country are people MOST likely to exhibit parochial political culture, meaning they have little awareness of government and do not form a strong political community?

Afghanistan.

France.

United States.

Germany.

Identifying primarily with a religious or ethnic group is known as

Nationalism.

Tribalism.

Fundamentalism.

Authoritarianism.

Political psychologists posit that

Childhood experiences might affect later political decision making.

Policy decisions are always influenced by childhood memories.

Fears are emotional and should not interfere in foreign policy decisions.

Feelings do not have an impact on a leader's decision.

Why is information on political leaders misleading?

Presidents or prime ministers are not available for surveys or interviews.

Scientists have difficulties studying alpha males in society.

The impact of external variables outweighs individual decisions in foreign policy.

We have little information about political leaders.

The vast and complex information involved with analyzing and implementing foreign policy is ______to any policy maker.

A serious challenge.

A technological curse.

An insurmountable impediment.

Comparable to an online computer game.

The fateful decision of sending Soviet troops to Afghanistan in 1979 might be explained by

Nikita Khrushchev's impulsive behavior.

Leonid's Brezhnev's addiction to medication.

Michael Gorbachev's lack of power.

A new powerful U.S. administration.

Which of the following statements is MOST likely true about the Cuban regime?

Fidel Castro's brother Raul took over in 1999.

Authorities did not reveal Fidel Castro's deteriorating health conditions for years.

Fidel Castro was engaged in negotiations with the United States to introduce free trade.

Fidel Castro refused to take aid from the Soviet Union.

The domino theory argues that

The loss of one Stalinist country would lead to a U.S. global victory.

Small numbers on the domino piece enhance the chances of winning.

The loss of a single country to Communism would trigger a chain reaction.

Democracy will spread rapidly once it reaches a certain critical mass.

Diagrams of information processing and decision making used to predict Soviet decisions are called

Cognitive minds.

Cognitive maps.

Conscious systems.

Conscious maps.

Putnam's two-level game does NOT include which of the following?

Congress.

Lobbies.

Private persons.

Governments.

Which of the following is an important collective experience for the United States?

The acquisition of nuclear weapons by China.

The 1989 invasion of Panama.

The Great Depression.

The formation of the European Union.

In 1962 the Soviet Union planned to put missiles in Cuba that

Had only conventional warheads, not nuclear.

Could reach only as far as Miami.

Could reach more than half of the United States. *

Could reach as far as Alaska.

Constructivist theory posits that

States develop their interests and notions of security in many different ways, according to diverse social norms and historic experiences.

States develop their interest striving for resources and power in a chaotic international system.

States forge alliances with other states and maintain the status quo.

States seek to gain power so they can establish themselves as dominant regional hegemons.

Constructivism would argue that a state's policies are based on

How governments interpret the available information.

How much military power governments have.

What economic resources are available at the time.

The amount of soft power a state has.

Which of the following is NOT a factor on which state leaders base their decisions, according to constructivist theory?

Beliefs about the role of their country in international affairs.

Probabilistic assessments on how strong their state's military power is compared to other states.

Impressions of other actors within the international system and the rules of interactions with them.

Analogies about the causes and consequences of important historical events.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three international environments defined by Alexander Wendt?

The Hobbesian model.

The Jeffersonian model. *

The Lockean model.

The Kantian model.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt embraced which of Wendt's models?

The Hobbesian model.

The Lockean model.

The Kantian model.

He embraced all three models equally.

Which of the following is true?

European socialist parties distanced themselves from Communist principles.

European Communists controlled several Western European governments after 1945.

Communism was ideologically absent from developing countries.

Almost all developing countries rose against Communism after 1945.

What is the reason that Wallerstein's theory has seen a recent revival?

Brexit in the United Kingdom.

The Arab Spring.

The 2008 global financial crisis.

The rise of ISIS.

Feminists point to ______, positing that _______by men and the oppression of women shape international relations.

Conflict and arms race concepts . . . economic freedom advocated.

Children's rights . . . free trade promoted.

Gender conflict and injustice . . . political domination.

Women's issues . . . economic liberalization.

Despite women in power positions, such as Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel, more peaceful policies in international relations are still wishful thinking. Feminist scholars would MOST likely argue that

Foreign policy has become more peaceful.

Patriarchal structures still persist despite advances in women's rights.

Not all women are peaceful matriarchs.

Political culture cannot be changed.

People who act like subjects and obey the government exhibit _________ political culture.

Democratic.

Parochial.

Authoritarian.

Hybrid.

According to scholar Samuel Huntington, major world conflicts occur between

Powerful leaders.

Economic blocs.

States.

Civilizations.

Political psychology focuses not just on ________ but also on _____.

Institutions and states . . . corporations.

Institutions and states . . . individuals and groups.

Individuals and groups . . . society as a whole.

Individuals and groups . . . behavior.

The Bush administration's intention to invade Iraq despite the lack of new evidence about chemical and biological arms is called a

Continuum bias.

Resistance bias.

Information bias.

Emotional bias.

President Johnson's decision to engage in Vietnam to avoid another Munich is based on

An analogy.

Intelligence.

His staff's perception of the situation.

A gamble he took.

Which of the following is an example of decision making in an authoritarian context?

Decisions are scrutinized by the media.

Decision making is made in a group context.

The leader seeks broad political support for decisions.

The leader's choices predominate and receive little, if any, oversight.

In Essence of Decision, Graham Allison argued that __________ provided the best explanation of decision making in the Cuban missile crisis.

Bureaucratic politics.

Constructivism.

Realism.

Neo-Marxism.

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