War And World Politicstarak Barkawi Test Bank Chapter 14 8e

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 - Question 01

01) Democratic peace predicts that nuclear autocracies will fight each other.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 02

02) The Vietnam war is also referred to as the Second Indochina war.
a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 03

03) The imperial past and the transnational present challenge the national–international perspective on war.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 04

04) Contemporary civil wars are fought within the territory of a sovereign state, and do not involve international actors such as the UN, humanitarian organizations, or foreign states.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 05

05) Opponents of the democratic peace theory argue that the defining parameters of the theory are fundamentally misleading and thus lead to flawed statistical results.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 06

06) Clausewitz is known for each of the following concepts except…

a. The ‘trinities’

b. Limited vs. total war

c. Real vs. true war

d. All of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 07

07) The two military developments that altered war during the Renaissance were:

a. The rise of armoured knights and political fragmentation.

b. The harnessing of nationalism and use of state bureaucracies to run wartime militaries and economies.

c. The ability to wage truly total wars and the beginning of mass conscription.

d. The emergence of infantry armies and advances in military technology (including the invention of gunpowder).

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 - Question 08

08) During the ‘cold’ war, fighting occurred in which of the following theaters?

a. Asia

b. Africa

c. Latin America

d. All of the given options are correct.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 09

09) Which of the following is a legacy of European military involvement in the Global South during the imperial era?

a. Armed forces in the new, independent states retained close links with former colonial powers, for example through officer training programmes.

b. Former imperial powers influenced wars in the global South through security assistance.

c. The use of armed forces for internal security, in a context of civil war and foreign intervention, remained a pattern.

d. All of the given options are correct.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 10

10) The ‘war on terror’ differs from previous eras of armed conflict involving the Global North and South because non-state actors from the non-European world directly attacked Western societies.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 11

11) A ‘limited war’ is defined as:

a. A war fought for a lesser goal than political existence.

b. A war that occurs in only one theatre.

c. A war that does not involve the use of nuclear or biological weapons.

d. A war that results in no more than 1,000 combat deaths.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 12

12) Mass conscription…

a. Originally referred to the idea that male citizens had an obligation to serve the nation in exchange for their increased say in public affairs.

b. Linked nationalism and citizenship with military service.

c. Created a shared national experience for young men.

d. All of the given options are correct.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 13

13) In contrast to tactics, strategy refers to the techniques employed by armed forces to fight other armed forces, to win the combats or battles that make up a war.

a. False

b. True

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 14

14) On what is the Clausewitzian philosophy of war not based?

a. His concept of trinity (passion, chance, reason).

b. His concept of trinity (people, military, political leadership).

c. A conceptualization of war as a means to achieve political ends.

d. A conceptualization of war as an end in itself.

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Title: Chapter 14 - Question 15

15) Which of the following does this chapter not offer as an alternative to the North American and Western European conception of the Second World War as a war between democracy and totalitarianism?

a. A war of resistance against an invading power, embedded in a civil war.

b. An ideological war between two competing philosophies of political economy.

c. A war that resulted in independence from a colonial power.

d. A war that resulted in an occupation of more than four decades.