What is one advantage the United States has in conducting foreign affairs?
a. It has a relatively small military.
b. Its economic strength enables it to undertake tasks no other country would try.
c. The continual change of members of Congress allows foreign policy to remain stable.
d. The judiciary serves to check and influence foreign policy.
e. There is no standing army.
Question -2-According to Tocqueville, what is one reason democracies are inferior to other governments in controlling their foreign affairs?
a. Democracies are seldom recognized by other governments.
b. Democracies are too self-interested to be concerned with foreign affairs.
c. Democracies have little capacity for operating with secrecy.
d. The economic climate of democracies does not lend itself to giving attention to the rest of the world.
e. There is no procedure for defining and implementing a foreign policy in democracies.
Question -3-What might be a national security rationale for advancing democracy, economic freedom, and human rights abroad?
a. Countries that enjoy economic freedom are too busy making money to attack the United States.
b. Democracies are subject to the foreign policy directives of the United States.
c. Each new democracy in the world adds more wealth to the United States treasury.
d. Free countries are less likely than tyrannies to threaten the United States.
e. The United States is able to bring more territories under its flag.
Question -4-Foreign policy is the
a. main duty of the legislative branch.
b. safety from external hazards to the nations territory, sovereignty, and freedom of action, as well as to its peoples lives and property.
c. set of programs and principles directing the governments interactions with the rest of the world.
d. set of policies to be enforced by the military.
e. way a government responds to immediate threats.
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