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Question 1

How did the intervention in Somalia in 1993 affect US attitudes towards military intervention later in the 1990s?

a) It encouraged the US to use military intervention more liberally

b) It made the US more reluctant to put American troops in the line of fire

c) It made the US more likely to intervene under the aegis of the UN

d) It encouraged US intervention in Rwanda

Question 2

What was significant about the make-up of the George W. Bush foreign policy team in 2001?

a) It was made up exclusively Neo-conservatives

b) It was made up exclusively of traditional realists

c) It was made up of a mixture of traditional realists and Neo-conservatives

d) It included several of the Clinton administration's foreign policy team

Question 3

What was the key difference between Neo-conservatism and Kissinger's realism?

a) The Neo-conservatives favoured détente with the Soviet Union

b) Kissinger favoured détente with the Soviet Union

c) The Neo-conservatives favoured isolationism

d) Kissinger favoured isolationism

Question 4

What were the key features of Condoleezza Rice's 'National Security Realism'?

a) Economics and democratic enlargement

b) Opposition to liberal interventionism and elevation of the national interest

c) Negotiation with North Korea and multilateralism

d) Cooperation and interdependence

Question 5

Which of these is not a key principle of Neo-conservatism?

a) Opposition to the New Left thinking of the 1960s

b) Critique of the Clinton administration's foreign policy

c) The focus of the US should solely be on domestic affairs

d) Part of the US mission is to promote democracy abroad

Question 6

How has the influence of religious ideas manifested itself in the post-9/11 foreign policy of the US?

a) The Vatican has had a greater input into the setting of US foreign policy

b) President George W. Bush has tended to construe the 'War on Terror' as a struggle between forces of good and evil

c) Religious ministers have been given key positions in the Bush administration

d) The Bush administration has openly denounced all of Islam as anti-American

Question 7

What is meant by the concept of 'blowback'?

a) The idea that the US is now suffering for earlier foreign policy actions in the Middle East

b) The idea that the US could be toppled by a single blow to its financial centre

c) The idea that the US should strike back with full force against Al Qaeda

d) None of the above

Question 8

Why did some analysts argue that major war was on the decline in the early 1990s?

a) Western states showed little enthusiasm for the deployment of troops

b) Nuclear deterrence encouraged the belief that major war was unthinkable

c) The number of lives lost in conflict in the post-Cold War era was less than that of the Cold War era

d) All of the above

Question 9

How did the international community react to the attacks of 9/11?

a) It generally rejected the US case for war against the Taliban

b) It generally supported the US case for war against the Taliban

c) All states except for China and Russia supported the US case for war against the Taliban

d) It urged the US to invade Iraq in response

Question 10

How did the conduct of the Iraq 2003 invasion differ from that of Afghanistan and US interventions in the late 1990s?

a) It was primarily a ground campaign led by the US

b) It was primarily an aerial campaign led by the US

c) It used US air and ground forces simultaneously

d) It combined a US air campaign with the use of local anti-Saddam forces on the ground

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