Verified Test Bank Ch.8 Realismtim Dunne And Brian Schmidt

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 01

01) Proponents of raison d'état argue that the state itself represents a moral force.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 02

02) The realism that emerged after the end of the Second World War was an entirely new approach with a different set of core assumptions.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 03

03) Realism has been a minor theory of world politics since the beginning of academic international relations.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 04

04) Offensive realism proposes that the structure of the international system compels states to maximize their relative power position.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 05

05) Structural realists argue that states are more concerned about absolute rather than relative gains.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 06

06) The lineage of classical realism is said to have begun with:

a. Niccolo Machiavelli.

b. Thucydides.

c. Hans Morgenthau.

d. Kenneth Waltz.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 07

07) Who argued that life in the state of nature, which is similar to the condition of world politics, is ‘nasty, brutish, and short’?

a. Machiavelli

b. Thucydides

c. Rousseau

d. Hobbes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 08

08) The condition/structure of the international system, having no overarching central authority above the individual collection of sovereign states, is known as:

a. Anarchy.

b. Political community.

c. International system.

d. Sovereignty.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 09

09) Classical realism represents power politics as a result of:

a. International relations.

b. State sovereignty.

c. Human nature.

d. Anarchy.

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 10

10) In the ‘Melian dialogue’, the Spartans assert the logic of power politics, while the Athenians respond with arguments invoking justice, the gods, and their allies the Melians.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 11

11) A branch of modern realism that sees the construction of individual state leaders’ perceptions as playing an important role is called:

a. Rational choice realism.

b. Neo-classical realism.

c. Neo-liberalism.

d. Neo-realism.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 12

12) Neorealists define the structure of international system in terms of three elements: organizing principles, differentiation of units, and distribution of capabilities.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 08 - Question 13

13) Which of the following is not a core assumption of realist thought?

a. Statism.

b. Sovereignty.

c. Survival.

d. Self-help.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 14

14) __________ argued that the underlying cause of the Peloponnesian War was ‘the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta’, which is considered to be the classic example of the impact of the distribution of power on state behaviour.

a. Schweller.

b. Machiavelli.

c. Waltz

d. Thucydides.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 15

15) Kenneth Waltz argues that the key difference between domestic and international orders is that domestic orders are hierarchical, while the international order is anarchic.

a. True

b. False