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Question 1

According to Rosenau, which variable(s) should be considered to explain the foreign policy behaviour of the United States?

a) The external environment

b) Domestic environment, government and bureaucracy

c) Individual personality of foreign policy officials such as the US President

d) All of the above

Question 2

What, according to Systemic theories, is the primary determinant of a state's foreign policy?

a) The character of a state's leader

b) The distribution of power in the international system

c) The distribution of power within a state's governmental system

d) A state's political ideology

Question 3

How do Defensive Realism and Offensive Realism differ in their explanation of state behaviour?

a) Defensive realists place greater emphasis on the role of international institutions whereas Offensive realists do not

b) Defensive realists place less emphasis on geographical factors

c) Offensive realists prioritize national interest whereas Defensive realists do not

d) Defensive realists believe states are security maximizers, whereas Offensive realists believe states to be power maximisers

Question 4

What are the key elements of the Liberal approach to US foreign policy?

a) Promotion of Democracy, free-trade and international institutions

b) Alliances, diplomacy and protectionism

c) The balance of power, self-sufficiency and prudence

d) None of the above

Question 5

What drives US foreign policy according to the Marxist perspective?

a) Economic protectionism

b) Class consciousness

c) The search for new markets

d) Superstructure

Question 6

According to Realists, what accounts for the onset of the Cold War?

a) Ideological differences

b) A power vacuum

c) The threat posed by the Soviet Union

d) Both b and c

Question 7

Which factor is cited by Revisionists as the primary cause of the Cod War?

a) The threat posed by the Soviet Union

b) Domestic concerns of the US

c) Soviet ideology

d) None of the above

Question 8

In what sense is the grand strategy of Neo-Isolationism predicated on Defesive realist theory?

a) Both ignore the role of the US economy

b) Both emphasize the role of international institutions

c) Both place emphasis on national interest and advocate an activist foreign policy

d) Both place emphasis on national interest and advocate a restrained foreign policy

Question 9

Why do Liberal Internationalists argue that international institutions are important to US grand strategy?

a) They allow the US to withdraw from the international arena

b) They serve American interests

c) The US is incapable of acting alone

d) None of the above

Question 10

What is meant by a grand strategy of 'primacy'?

a) Assurance of US parity with other powers

b) Striving for American dominance

c) Putting America's interests first

d) Promotion of America as the World's first democracy

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