Complete Test Bank Geopolitics Ortmann, Whittaker Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 01

01) Grand strategy is an evolution of strategy away from a narrow focus on victory in war towards ______

a. a geographically-based understanding of strategy.

b. a set plan for the future.

c. a much broader, more long-term vision that is essentially political in nature.

d. a greater understanding of the political implications of geographic space.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 02

02) Geopolitics and grand strategy are academic theories rather than practical political concepts.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 03

03) According to Stefanie Ortmann and Nick Whittaker in chapter 17 of Strategy in the Contemporary World, which phenomenon highlighted the importance of geographical factors?

a. The establishment of the nation-state

b. The Industrial Revolution

c. Great power war

d. Imperial expansion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 04

04) Who coined the quote, ‘Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who rules the World Island commands the World’?

a. Friedrich Ratzel

b. Halford Mackinder

c. Alfred Thayer Mahan

d. Rudolph Kiellen

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 05

05) According to Stefanie Ortmann and Nick Whittaker in chapter 17 of Strategy in the Contemporary World, who coined the term ‘grand strategy’?

a. Alfred Thayer Mahan

b. Basil Liddell Hart

c. Halford Mackinder

d. Edward Mead Earle

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 06

06) Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski were responsible for rehabilitating which idea(s) in US academic and policy circles?

a. Grand strategy

b. Geopolitics

c. Grand strategy and geopolitics

d. None of the other answers is correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 07

07) What is driving the current surge of interest in geopolitics and grand strategy?

a. Russia’s renewed challenge to the Western-led order

b. Europe’s increasing withdrawal from effective foreign affairs

c. The rise of China and the relative economic decline of the United States

d. The growing importance of African natural resources

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 08

08) Classical geopolitical thought links territory to power and sees world politics as a competition between the most powerful states.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 09

09) What is a danger of not having a grand strategic framework?

a. Policy will be based more upon short-term pressures.

b. Biases will remain unexamined.

c. Policy will be based more upon short-term pressures and biases will remain unexamined.

d. None of the other answers is correct.

Type: true-false question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 10

10) Geography is a fixed and immutable factor in world affairs. Its influence on international politics is not affected by technological change.

a. True

b. False