To what new United Nations role did the impasse over collective security give rise during the Cold War?
a. Unilateral balance-of-power intervention
b. Preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping
c. Multilateral security
d. International judicial enforcement
e. Coercive diplomacy
Answer: b
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Which of the following factors explains the sanction of the present family law code in Morocco?
A. Moroccan political elites were not dependent on the country's conservative tribes. B. The post-colonial Moroccan leaders believed the traditional kinship groups threatened their own power. C. Most Moroccan tribal leaders wanted to maintain the existing system in which they dominated local politics. D. In Morocco, a political split occurred within the ruling elite immediately after independence. E. In Morocco, violent battles between reformists and conservatives continued long after independence, but eventually the reformists gained a decisive victory.
What is the significance of the diffusion of military skill in the context of multipolarity, according to Posen?
a. It means states are becoming weaker. b. It causes increased literacy worldwide. c. It contributes to the diffusion of state power. d. It indicates that the United States met its goals in Iraq. e. It reflects the declining influence of states in the international system.
The outbreak of the Civil War showed that
a. Americans have consistently been more interested in the common good and moral principles than in their own economic gain. b. opposing interests can always be reconciled through deliberation. c. slavery died out on its own, just as the founders had expected it would. d. slavery was not economically profitable. e. divisions over slavery were too deep to be resolved by “the mild voice of reason.”