Liberal and Social Theories

A. are filters used by governments to sift through the vast amounts of public data to find information relevant to national security issues.
B. are conscious blocks of certain forms of information that run counter to a state’s official domestic or foreign policy.
C. are subconscious filters through which people put the information coming in about the world around them.
D. occur when groups reach decisions without accurately assessing their consequences.

A. nationalistic cultures that have strong norms against violence.
B. a collective security system to prevent aggression by rogue actors.
C. a just war doctrine.
D. a global identity.

A. the concept of balance of power, which relies on states balancing each other through roughly equivalent military might.
B. the concept of separate, autonomous actors.
C. the belief that state cannot assess their interests via a cost-benefit analysis.
D. the assumption that women are just as prone to violence as men.

A. the failure of the basic concept of collective security.
B. the absence of a hegemonic power that can stabilize the system.
C. the irrational desire of most states to adhere to international norms of “good behavior.”
D. an adherence to the rational decision making model, which cannot adequately account for the irrationality of the international system.

A. peace studies.
B. collective security.
C. the security dilemma.
D. postmodernism.

A. a collective good.
B. aggression.
C. nonviolence.
D. hegemony.

A. workers.
B. peasants.
C. white-collar workers.
D. militarists.

A. Kant
B. Machiavelli
C. Hobbes
D. Morgenthau

A. the Organization of American States.
B. the United Nations.
C. NATO.
D. the League of Nations.

A. norm entrepreneurs.
B. collective security agreements.
C. statesmen and diplomats.
D. peace studies theorists.