Chapter 6 Exam

. A __________ would view the expansion of organizations such as the EU and NATO as beneficial for regional and global security.

post-liberal Kantian

liberal institutionalist

global absolutist

neostructural realist

. The "Widening School", or Copenhagen School, of international relations advocates for

increasing the scope of what should fall under global security studies.

studying the effects of Stockholm Syndrome in people kidnapped by terrorists.

increasing the number of states that should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.

restricting the study of security studies to certain topics.

. Human interest should take priority over national interest is a tenet of which school of thought?

realist

liberal

Marxist

global humanist

. The Revolution in Military Affairs

has partially facilitated the rise of asymmetric warfare.

demonstrates that technological advantage is decisive in warfare.

negates the idea of postmodern warfare.

has partially facilitated the rise of asymmetric warfare, demonstrates that technological advantage is decisive in warfare, and negates the idea of postmodern warfare.

. Patrick Lin asserts that drone warfare can lead to a "fourth D," which is

dullness.

Dungeness.

dangerous.

dispassion.

. Gray zone tactics refer to

a littoral zone, as it relates to naval operations.

the tools of hybrid warfare.

the amorality of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.

state military action contrary to the Geneva Conventions.

. Hybrid warfare allows inferior militaries to

selectively breed supersoldiers.

increase their conventional military capacity by assigning their forces different roles.

overcome advantages held by superior ones.

leverage their conventional military forces in a defensive land war.

. A conflict characterized by violence between ethnic groups in a collapsing state is would be called a(n)

racial internal war.

ethnic interstate war.

civil conflict.

New War.

. What term is used to describe the acquisition of nuclear weapons by states?

nuclear proliferation

nuclearization

arms race

weaponization

. Counterinsurgency and counterterrorism are strategies used in

the war on terrorism.

counterintelligence operations.

essential state-making activities.

Western imperialism.

. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) includes

chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons.

atomic, or nuclear, weapons only.

chemical weapons, nerve agents, and atomic weapons.

Any nuclear weapon and conventional bombs with a high enough explosive yield.

. Realists and constructivists disagree on whether __________ influence(s) state behavior.

anarchy

norms

other states' behavior

uncertainty

. In the Sagan-Waltz discussion, the topic was

disputes about resources like oil.

nuclear proliferation.

disputes about land.

the fundamentally bad nature of all people.

. Which of the following is/are seen as evidence of the obsolescence of war?

security communities such as those in Europe

democratic peace theory

civil conflict in Africa

security communities such as those in Europe and democratic peace theory

. In what year was the term "weapons of mass destruction" coined and by whom?

1948, UN Commission for Conventional Armaments

1953, US President Eisenhower

2001, US President George W. Bush

1968, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

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