Question

True or False: 1. One of the key assumptions in realism is that the international system is anarchic. This assumption implies that international politics is built on the logic of self-help. 2. Offensive realism emphasizes that states are power maximizers. 3. Ethnic nationalism that demands national self-determination of an ethnic/national group tends to make an existing state stronger. 4. In an environment of shifting balance of power, rising powers feel a growing sense of entitlement and demand greater influence and respect. Established powers, faced with challengers, tend to become fearful, insecure, and defensive. In such an environment, misunderstandings are magnified, empathy remains elusive, and events and third-party actions that would otherwise be inconsequential or manageable can trigger wars that the primary players never wanted to fight. Graham Allison refers to this dynamic “Thucydides’ trap.” 5. According to the neorealist view, national security or insecurity is largely the result of domestic political dynamics within the state. 6. Stephen Walt contends that there is no difference between regional balancing and bandwagoning. 7. Whereas a limited war is fought a lesser goal than political existence, a total war occurs when a state or other political entity is fighting for its existence. 8. One of the contemporary trends in the global warfare is that war and society in global South and North have become interconnected in new ways in the War on Terror. 9. There is no distinction between regional cooperation and regional integration. 10. The African Union has been established, based on eight Regional Economic Communities that have achieved significant results in functional cooperation. It can be argued, then, the African Union has achieved deep regional integration. 11. When a country possess the infrastructure, material, and technical capabilities to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon, but has not made a nuclear weapon yet. This capability is known as latent nuclear capacity. 12. The concept of “stability-instability paradox” suggests that nuclear deterrence is not effective since a large-scale nuclear warfare is always likely between nuclear powers. 13. Nuclear optimists argue that the proliferation of nuclear weapons will contribute to stability in international relations.

Answer 1

1. False as it means that there is no heirarchial force in international politics.

2. True as unlike defensive realism it foucuses on state powers and capabilities and suppresses the international bodies

3. False as it divides the unity of the nation and state

4. True as according to him in such situations fear of going out of power induces power and it is a forced action

5. False as it states that alongwith the internal politics the external alliances are also very important and the most stable state is the one with both internal and external balance. Hence both domestic poilitics within the state and external politics with its alliances is important.

6. False as balancing is more powerful than bandwagoning according to stephen walt and also balancing is alliance with other states against the threat but bandwagoning is alliance with the threatening state

7. False as the limited war is refered to as a war in which linited resources are invested and total war is the war in which the priority is to win the war at any cost hence all the resources can be sacrificed in it

8. True as the wars of south and nirth have become similar

9. True as both mean the cooperation of neighbouring states or states of a region on the basis of the rules

10. False as deep regional integration would require business and market rights as well

11. True as the latent nuclear capacity is the capability to use the resources present in a country to quickly assemble a nuclear device

12. False as it states that deterence is effective as the countries poessessing nuclear powers will not land up into major conflicts as they fear the consequences. It is stated in the paradigm itself.

13. True as nuclear optimism is a view which believes that more nuclear weapons will make the world a safer place