The Struggle for Primacy in a Global Society Exam Prep Ch2

Chapter 2

The Struggle for Primacy in a Global Society

Multiple-Choice

1. The rise and fall of Rome is an example of which theory?
   1. Exceptionalist theory
   2. Power transition theory
   3. Containment theory
   4. Power conversion theory

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. “Soft power” includes a country’s
   1. economic strength.
   2. military capabilities.
   3. culture and appeal.
   4. political effectiveness.

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Balancing (a stronger power) is achieved by
   1. building alliances.
   2. developing democratic governments.
   3. war.
   4. internalizing the economy.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Binding (a stronger power) is achieved by
   1. democratic enlargement.
   2. embedding the threatening country into an alliance.
   3. colonizing the threatening country.
   4. military engagement.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. At the end of World War II
   1. the United States and the Soviet Union were superpowers.
   2. Japan was a superpower.
   3. Germany was a superpower.
   4. China was a superpower.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. America’s strength as a dominant power
   1. is one-dimensional.
   2. is multidimensional.
   3. is based on its history.
   4. None of the above

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. World War I was significant in American history because
   1. America began abandoning isolationism.
   2. manifest destiny took hold.
   3. President Roosevelt strengthened the military.
   4. the Monroe Doctrine was established.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the five waves of American decline described by Samuel Huntington?
   1. Watergate crisis
   2. Launch of Sputnik
   3. Great Depression
   4. Oil embargo by OPEC

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The transition of power from the G-7 to the G-20 represents
   1. asymmetrical warfare.
   2. emerging market countries challenging America’s leadership.
   3. diplomacy.
   4. domestic threats.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. In the United States, the concept of manifest destiny helped to
   1. expand U.S. territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
   2. end the Civil War.
   3. establish the Constitution.
   4. promote the use of public goods.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Asymmetrical warfare
   1. is based on European currency.
   2. is a preoccupation with domestic and regional affairs.
   3. results from a decision to lag behind other countries militarily.
   4. is a nonstate threat to the United States.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Application

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. China’s rapidly growing power is
   1. largely one-dimensional, based on its military.
   2. based on its authoritarian government.
   3. largely one-dimensional, based on its economy.
   4. enhanced by its favorable geography.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The American “shock and awe” bombing of Baghdad was a demonstration of
   1. the centrality of economic power.
   2. a wave of declinism.
   3. a hegemon with a preponderance of military power.
   4. the Monroe Doctrine.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Application

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The United States uses public goods in the global community in order to
   1. demonstrate manifest destiny.
   2. lessen the chances of hostile alliances forming.
   3. demonstrate that it ignores public opinion.
   4. adhere to the 2001 Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. In imperial overstretch,
   1. domestic affairs unravel as a country puts resources into military activities abroad.
   2. military campaigns abroad suffer due to emphasis on domestic affairs.
   3. there is proof of the theories of Antonio Gramsci.
   4. offshore balancing is a major factor.

Topic/Concept: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

2.2: Examine factors that influences the rise and fall of great powers

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The United States is considered to be a hegemon in the international arena.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Throughout history, there has not been a multipolar distribution of power.

Explanation: Prior to World War II, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union were all considered to be great powers.

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Geography is a major factor in the rise and fall of great powers.

Topic/Concept: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

2.2: Examine factors that influences the rise and fall of great powers

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Gross National Product (GNP) measures the total market value of all goods and services produced within a country.

Explanation: This is the function of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Democratic enlargement is not a strategy used by the United States in order to maintain its power.

Explanation: It is a common strategy.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Economic power is often seen as the foundation of military and political power.

Topic/Concept: Challenging American Hegemony

2.4: Evaluate the political, economic, and military backdrop that engendered competitive relations between the US and China

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Intellectual capability is a common element of power.

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Asymmetrical warfare is effectively demonstrated by terrorism.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. International institutions like the United Nations, the IMF, and the World Bank are not used to legitimize the primacy of the United States in the global community.

Explanation: They are used.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Manifest destiny is the ideology which paved the way for territory expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean in the United States.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. America’s global leadership is being challenged from within by extreme economic, political, and social ________________.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ influence the rise of a great power by pressuring the available domestic resources with population growth.

Topic/Concept: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

2.2: Examine factors that influences the rise and fall of great powers

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ was created by European powers to prevent one country from dominating the others.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ was a United States policy stated in 1823 that diminished European involvement in the Americas.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ is a term used to express the dangers of excessive pride and arrogance.

Topic/Concept: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

2.2: Examine factors that influences the rise and fall of great powers

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The _____________ worked to achieve world peace with international cooperation following World War I.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The _____________ was used by China and Russia in order to challenge the U.S. framework for international security.

Topic/Concept: Challenging American Hegemony

2.4: Evaluate the political, economic, and military backdrop that engendered competitive relations between the US and China

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ is a gap that has developed between a country’s global ambitions and its resources available to fulfill these ambitions.

Topic/Concept: Threats to U.S. Power: Emerging Powers and Nonstate Actors

2.5: Examine the internal, external, and nonstate threats to America's leadership

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Security is an example of a _____________ or collective benefit.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The _____________ stresses that the distribution of power in countries will rise and fall.

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to Matching:

1) E) Monroe Doctrine

2) A) Uneven economic growth

3) D) institutional leadership

4) C) bipolar

5) B) power

Essay

1. Economic power and military power are often discussed as the two most important factors that make up a great power. What are some other elements of power? How might they contribute to a nation’s rise to superpower status?

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. What are the three types of leadership? Provide some examples of how the United States and past world powers have exercised these types of leadership.

Topic/Concept: Power and Leadership

2.1: Evaluate leadership as one of the important constituents of power

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. What are some strategies for maintaining power and preventing rising powers from creating disorder in the international system? Provide some examples of countries that have used some of these strategies.

Topic/Concept: Strategies for Maintaining Power

2.3: Analyze the case of the United States to highlight strategies adopted by leading powers to maintain their international position

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. What are some current examples of challenges to American hegemony? What are the strongest challenges the United States faces to maintain its status as a great power? Explain.

Topic/Concept: Challenging American Hegemony

2.4: Evaluate the political, economic, and military backdrop that engendered competitive relations between the US and China

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. Does China pose a major threat to the United States? How can U.S.–China relations be managed in light of increased competition?

Topic/Concept: Challenging American Hegemony

2.4: Evaluate the political, economic, and military backdrop that engendered competitive relations between the US and China

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Difficult