Security communities are
A) areas of open military operations and arms exchange for the purpose of balancing aggressors.
B) formal commitments between states to cooperate.
C) groups of states bound by shared interests and identities among which security threats are virtually nonexistent.
D) non-existent in the modern world but were a regular feature of the Middle Ages.
E) programs involving the exchange of citizens for the purpose of fostering cultural understanding.
A group of states bound by shared interests and identities among which security threats are virtually nonexistent are known as
A) allies.
B) balancing agents.
C) carrier nations.
D) functional units.
E) security communities.
Peacekeeping has changed since the end of the Cold War in that it now focuses
A) as much on peace as it does on war.
B) less on creating a lasting peace and more on ensuring a temporary cessation in hostilities.
C) less on humanitarian goals and more on peace as a security arrangement.
D) more on economically advanced countries than developing ones.
E) more on creating peace in hostile situations rather than only enforcing a cease-fire.
The provision of third party forces that help provide a buffer between parties in conflict often along a border or cease-fire line is known as
A) balancing.
B) collective security.
C) interdiction.
D) liberal interventionism.
E) peacekeeping.
Because key states were not members, the ______ failed as a collective security arrangement in the 1920s and 1930s and could not prevent the outbreak of World War II.
A) Concert of Europe
B) European Union
C) League of Nations
D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
E) United Nations
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