What aspect of the liberal conception of what can bring about world order, one resurrected by the Gulf War of the early 1990s, has more recently been shown to be a weakness?

a. the reliance on international institutions in bringing about world order, ones that involve state-based collective security, when most recent conflicts have been civil wars
b. the reliance on state-based collective security systems in an era when transnational terrorism is more of a threat to world order
c. the state-centric nature of international institutions, such as the UN, in an era of porous borders and an information revolution
d. the lack of an answer about how to deal with cyberterrorism, especially when it can be carried out by non-state organizations


Answer: A

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