Which of the following is least likely to be used as a criticism of MNCs?
a. They are too big.
b. They centralize decision-making authority too much.
c. They do not help local economies develop.
d. They do not have sufficient technical knowledge.
What ethical argument did the Athenians make to the Melians?
a. Might makes right.
b. Empire is justified because it ensures a balance of power and thus ensures peace.
c. Freedom is more important than empire.
d. Order must be valued above freedom.
e. Peace must be valued above freedom.
Why can we reject the idea of complete skepticism in international politics?
a. Some room exists for morality in international politics.
b. There are no institutions in international politics to provide order.
c. The threats to survival in international politics have been steadily decreasing.
d. Most state leaders emphasize that nonideological pragmatism is the primary motivation for their policy actions.
e. Might makes right.
When a multinational corporation as truly become transnational, it means
a. that the MNC draws on global resources, management expertise, and
production.
b. the corporation sets a separate business strategy for each country it operates in.
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c. the MNC seeks to dominate a specific global market sector, but concentrates most of its efforts in a
single country.
d. the MNC has a headquarters in one country and a variety of subsidiaries under loose control in several
other countries.
What patently shallow and flawed analogy was sometimes made between the Cold War and the Peloponnesian War?
a. The United States as Athens and the Soviet Union as Sparta
b. The slavery of Athens and the slave labor camps of the Soviet Union
c. The United States as Athens and Cuba as Corcyra
d. The Soviet Union as Sparta and Germany as Corinth
e. The United States as Sparta and the Soviet Union as Athens
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