Test Bank + Answers Chapter 14 Cultural Clashes and Conflict

Chapter 14

Cultural Clashes and Conflict Resolution

Multiple-Choice

1. The accumulation of good will and understanding from a common set of values is known as
   1. universalism.
   2. common good principle.
   3. cultural reservoir.
   4. societal accumulation.

Topic/Concept: Cultural Influences on Conflicts

14.1: Report that ideas of culture may be used to diminish tensions or to encourage conflict

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The promotion of one’s culture while devaluing other cultures is known as
   1. ethnocentrism.
   2. cultural relativism.
   3. dehumanism.
   4. None of the above

Topic/Concept: Cultural Influences on Conflicts

14.1: Report that ideas of culture may be used to diminish tensions or to encourage conflict

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT an example of a Barbary State?
   1. Malawi
   2. Morocco
   3. Tunisia
   4. Libya

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The United States first clashed with Muslims in
   1. the Middle East.
   2. Indonesia.
   3. the Barbary States.
   4. Iraq.

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ was the prison in Iraq where American soldiers abused and tortured prisoners.
   1. Fatawa Mujahedeen
   2. Guantanamo Bay
   3. Abu Ghraib
   4. Dome of the Rock

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the forces that explains the decline (in number) of ethnic wars?
   1. Goal of maintaining order
   2. Active promotion of democracy
   3. Decrease in cost of wars
   4. Engagement by the United Nations

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors to contribute to ethnic pluralism?
   1. Liberation
   2. Migration
   3. Country border design by the colonial rulers
   4. Attempts by colonizers to divide and control

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a cause for ethnic conflict?
   1. Proliferation of automatic weapons
   2. Scarce economic resources
   3. Manipulation of negative perceptions
   4. Strong political institutions

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a form of
   1. peacemaking.
   2. peacekeeping.
   3. peacebuilding.
   4. negotiation.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ law is Islamic law used to govern Muslim communities.
   1. Koran
   2. Sharia
   3. Madrasah
   4. Muhammad

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The use of inducements or punishments in relating with other states is known as
   1. candy/beatings.
   2. inducements/punishments.
   3. carrots/sticks.
   4. clashing leaders.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. America’s longest war is with
   1. Iraq.
   2. Iran.
   3. the Taliban.
   4. the Viet Cong.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the four interrelated approaches to conflict resolution?
   1. Deterrence
   2. Peacemaking
   3. Negotiation
   4. Peacekeeping

Topic/Concept:

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a just war?
   1. The war is fought for a just cause.
   2. A preemptive strike is employed at the start of the war.
   3. Each side incurs a similar level of losses.
   4. All casualties are combatants and no civilians are involved.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The forming of separate and independent countries by ethnic groups is known as
   1. separation.
   2. ethnic statehood.
   3. partition.
   4. federalism.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Globalization challenges traditional values and parochialism. It also erodes identities based on nationality, geographic location, religion, and ethnicity.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. There is an assumption that the West and the Muslim world are inherently incompatible and hostile. This assumption is at the heart of the theory of the certainty of internationalist clashes.

Explanation: It is at the heart of the theory of the inevitability of cultural clashes.

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The rise of militant Islam coincides with the growth of Islamic fundamentalists, many of whom believe they are engaged in an apocalyptic struggle with Western infidels.

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Clashes among nations within the same civilization are common realities of international relations.

Topic/Concept: Clashes Among Nations

14.3: Examine how cultural distance and threatened national interests are the causes behind clashes among nations

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The United States’ reliance on force to resolve conflicts and its handling of international relations has not served to reinforce negative views held by the global community.

Explanation: It has served to reinforce negative views.

Topic/Concept: Clashes Among Nations

14.3: Examine how cultural distance and threatened national interests are the causes behind clashes among nations

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The active promotion of democratic institutions and practices that protect minority rights is one of the regional and global forces that has helped to explain the decline in the number of ethnic wars.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Tribalism is a subjective perception of who belongs to a particular group.

Explanation: Ethnicity is the correct term.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Migration is a factor that contributes to ethnic pluralism.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Although conflicts between ethnic groups are often perceived as the result of “ancient hatreds,” most ethnic conflicts are very complex and have little to do with ancient animosities.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Most ethnic wars occur in rich countries with strong political institutions.

Explanation: Most ethnic wars occur in poor countries with weak institutions.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. Increasingly, the United Nations and regional organizations intervene militarily to end international and interethnic violence or to prevent it from escalating. This is called

.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is a long-term process of implementing peaceful social change through economic development and reforms, political reforms, and territorial compromises.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. involves the intervention of neutral third parties.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The holds that civilizations are separate and distinct and that conflicts between them are almost inevitable.

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. refers to “binding, authoritative third-party intervention in which conflict parties agree to hand the determination of a final settlement to outsiders.”

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. NATO actions against Libya’s Qadaffi regime reinforced global acceptance of the necessity of ____________.

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is the presence of many different groups within a specific geographic boundary.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is usually regarded as an outdated term that refers to groups of indigenous people.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Although Muslims and Croats engaged in their own campaigns of , the Serbs were primarily responsible for genocide, and Muslims were the principal victims.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is generally defined as a set of shared learned values, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, modes of living, customs, and symbols.

Topic/Concept: Cultural Influences on Conflicts

14.1: Report that ideas of culture may be used to diminish tensions or to encourage conflict

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to matching:

1) B) stereotypes

2) D) cultural reservoir

3) E) track II diplomacy

4) A) ethnicity

5) C) ethnocentrism

Essay

1. How does globalization affect ethnicity, nationalism, and cultural clashes?

Topic/Concept: Clashes Among Nations

14.3: Examine how cultural distance and threatened national interests are the causes behind clashes among nations

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Give a short background on the Hutu/Tutsi ethnic conflict that resulted in the

Rwandan genocide.

Topic/Concept: Ethnic Conflicts

14.4: Review the global issues of the causes of ethnic and religious conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. What are the four approaches to resolving cultural conflicts discussed in this chapter?

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. What is the difference between peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding?

Topic/Concept: Resolving Cultural Conflicts

14.6: Describe the four interrelated approaches to resolving cultural conflicts

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. With specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries, critically evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations.

Topic/Concept: Clashing Civilizations

14.2: Evaluate Huntington’s thesis on the clash of civilizations with specific reference to U.S. relations with Muslim countries

Skill Level: Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Difficult