Assignment:
Q1. Cognitive balance, or the maintenance of a logically consistent mental model of the world, can be achieved through
a. wishful thinking.
b. mirror imaging.
c. affective bias.
d. projection.
e. selective perception.
Q2. The first attempt at creating a collective security system was the
a. United Nations.
b. League of Nations.
c. European Community.
d. North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
e. Arab League.
Q3. In order for women to have a profound influence on IR,
a. they need to adopt the realist beliefs of men.
b. they need to participate as combatants in regional conflicts.
c. they need to have positions as state leaders rather than in the foreign policy bureaucracy.
d. they need to participate in key foreign policy positions in large numbers around the world.
e. they need to demonstrate heroism on the battlefield so that their deeds live on in collective memory.
Q4. For postmodernists, the breakup of the Soviet Union into 15 sovereign states is evidence of a problem with which belief of realists?
a. States are the central actors in IR.
b. States pursue objective interests through international power politics.
c. States have universal interests.
d. States are unitary.
e. States pursue their national interest defined in terms of the acquisition of power.
Q5. Consideration of the political organizations, government agencies, and economic sectors within states is the focus of the _____ level of analysis.
a. individual
b. domestic
c. interstate
d. global
e. systemic
Q6. Tactical nuclear weapons
a. are not integrated into conventional forces because of concerns about theft or accident.
b. were phased out by the United States and Russia when the Cold War ended.
c. remain in the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
d. were once carried on long-range bombers.
e. are carried on submarines and aircraft carriers.
Q7. Which of the following complicates the rational model of decision making?
a. Uncertainty about the costs and benefits of particular actions
b. Standard operating procedures
c. The pursuit of national interests
d. Low-level decisions
e. Risk taking