Question 1

In what year was the term "weapons of mass destruction" coined and by whom?

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A)   1948, UN Commission for Conventional Armaments
B)   1953, US President Eisenhower
C)   2001, US President George W. Bush
D)   1968, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Question 2

Are the security-related goals of the four great powers identified in the text destined to lead to war? Why or why not?

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Question 3

Economic explanations for terrorism rest on the assumption that

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A)   all terrorists are recruited from poor families.
B)   a Western-dominated, globalized economy allows for great inequalities that must be remedied, possibly by violent means.
C)   governments break the social contract with their citizens by encouraging outsourcing.
D)   terrorists are motivated by material gains.

Question 4

Name three transnational terrorist networks.

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Question 5

Define nuclear proliferation in 25 words or fewer.

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Nuclear proliferation is the s...

Question 6

Gray zone tactics refer to

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A)   a littoral zone, as it relates to naval operations.
B)   the tools of hybrid warfare.
C)   the amorality of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.
D)   state military action contrary to the Geneva Conventions.

Question 7

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)  include

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A)   chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons.
B)   atomic, or nuclear, weapons only.
C)   chemical weapons, nerve agents, and atomic weapons.
D)   any nuclear weapon and conventional bombs with a high enough explosive yield.

Question 8

What type of terrorism seeks to kill as many outgroup members as possible?

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A)   New/postmodern
B)   Secular
C)   Radical
D)   State

Question 9

What are constructivist criticisms of realist and liberal accounts of the causes of war?

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Constructivist criticisms of realist and...

Question 10

In what decade did terrorism become a transnational phenomenon?

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A)   1940s
B)   1960s
C)   1970s
D)   1990s

Question 11

What is the word used to describe the dissemination and communication of terrorist ideology through various media?

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A)   Propaganda
B)   Mobilizing
C)   Rhetoric
D)   Proselytizing

Question 12

The idea that war should be a means to an end is commonly associated with which writer?

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A)   Ernst Van der Graaf
B)   Carl von Clausewitz
C)   Curtis LeMay
D)   Antonio Gramsci

Question 13

Some scholars assert the end of the Cold War changed the international system, creating a world in which domestic and international affairs are intertwined, national borders are permeable, and states have rejected the use of force for resolving conflict. This condition is often called

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A)   postmodernity.
B)   global new alternate world.
C)   a phantasm, never likely to happen.
D)   post-structural realism.

Question 14

Using technology to hunt and track the enemy, sharing intelligence with other states, and targeting insurgent leadership with unmanned drones and covert operations are the components of

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A)   counterinsurgency (COIN) .
B)   counterintelligence (COINTEL) .
C)   counterterrorism.
D)   counteroperations.

Question 15

A powerful alliance of defense contractors that have a large degree of influence in politics would be most alarming to

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A)   Marxist pacifists.
B)   radical liberals.
C)   neoclassical realists.
D)   liberal reformists.

Question 16

Name three causes of war and the theoretical paradigms that use them.

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Question 17

In Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia, the trend has been toward

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A)   nuclearization and militarization.
B)   denuclearization and nuclear-weapon-free zones.
C)   militarization and war.
D)   denuclearization and war.

Question 18

In the Sagan-Waltz discussion, the topic was

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A)   disputes about resources like oil.
B)   nuclear proliferation.
C)   disputes about land.
D)   the fundamentally bad nature of all people.

Question 19

Cultural explanations for terrorism focus on

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A)   civic nationalism.
B)   liberation for individual values.
C)   threats to identity.
D)   reactions to the liberal international economic order.

Question 20

List the three core treaties that you think are the most important for limiting the spread and use of nuclear weapons. Explain your answer.

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The three core treaties that are most im...

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