If a modern international relations scholar of realist theory could travel back in time to the years before World War I, he or she might have predicted that the U.S. would ally with Germany. Why?
a. because Germany would have appeared to be the underdog in the war, at least from the standpoint of power resources, despite eventual American perceptions
b. because the United States was in a position to overtake Britain’s position as a global hegemon
c. because Britain, France, and Russia also represented threats to U.S. expansion of military and economic power
d. because Germany had made friendly overtures to the United States prior to the war’s beginning
Answer: A
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