Strategic and geopolitical analyses of international affairs
a. were strongly opposed by Alfred Mahan and Halford Mackinder.
b. stress the role that individual leaders and diplomats play.
c. (C) emphasize military, economic, and geographical influences on state behavior on
a global scale.
d. rely exclusively on quantitative methodologies that can be repeated.
Diplomatic history seeks to explain international affairs by
a. using quantitative methodologies that can be repeated.
b. (C) stressing the role that countries and individual leaders and diplomats played.
c. emphasizing socioeconomic factors, including classes.
d. arguing that war and conflict are not inevitable, but are the result of defective
institutions.
Which of the following was not one of the emerging global problems discussed in Chapter 1?
a. terrorism
b. drugs
c. (C) too rapid technical advance
d. the environment
Which of the following factors has not led to the acceleration of trends toward regionalization and globalization?
a. economics and the reduction of trade barriers
b. advances in information and communication technologies
c. the increased number of free trade areas
d. (C) a greater number of more effective strategic arms limitation treaties
Which of the following are important implications of the trend toward democratization in the international system?
a. more conflict because capitalist democracies will fight for influence in overseas
markets
b. The implications are unknown because most analysts do not really believe such a
trend is going on.
c. (C) the possibility of fewer wars since democracies rarely go to war against each
other
d. New democracies will naturally have no economic problems, ethnic unrest, or
civil strife.
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