Ch20 | Full Test Bank – Strategic Studies And Its Critics,

Chapter 20

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 01

01) Elements of the 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, were ‘virtually paraphrased’ from which Herman Kahn book?

a. The Wizards of Armageddon

b. Strategy in the Nuclear Age

c. On Thermonuclear War

d. Strategy and Conscience

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 02

2) When was the ‘Golden Age’ of strategic studies?

a. The end of the Second World War until the end of the cold war

b. The middle decades of the cold war

c. The final decade of the cold war

d. The period running from the aftermath of the Second World War through to the end of the 1960s

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 03

03) Who wrote the seminal article ‘Strategic Studies and Its Critics’?

a. Anatol Rapoport

b. Philip Green

c. Karl Deutsch

d. Hedley Bull

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 04

04) Rapoport and Green argued that strategic studies, particularly nuclear strategy, neglected what key questions?

a. Moral questions

b. Cultural questions

c. Political questions

d. Technical questions

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 05

05) Which of the following underlay Rapoport and Green’s criticisms of the claim of strategic studies, and especially deterrence theory, to be a scientifically rigorous field of study?

a. The assumption of rationality

b. Its use of systems analysis

c. Its use of game theory

d. All the options given are correct.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 06

06) Theorists of the ‘third wave’ attempted to redirect strategic studies to a focus upon cultural values, history, and ‘national styles’.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 07

07) Theorists associated with the ‘third wave’ of strategic studies accepted prior moral critiques of strategic studies.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 08

08) Which of the following is a key challenge that critical approaches to strategic studies make regarding traditional strategic studies?

a. Traditional strategic studies is too Western-centric.

b. Traditional strategic studies is overly technical and instrumental.

c. Gender terminology leads to a sanitized, domesticated, and more permissive view of military force.

d. All the options given are correct.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 09

09) Critical approaches to strategic studies allege that it inadequately deals with post-cold war issues, particularly the changing nature of conflict.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 20 - Question 10

10) There has been little recent engagement between contemporary proponents and critics of strategic studies because they begin from increasingly divergent assumptions and because critics would rather develop an alternative to strategic studies that encompasses non-military issues than work to improve traditional strategic studies.

a. True

b. False