A. ordering goals by importance precedes listing alternatives to achieve goals.
B. investigating the consequences of alternatives precedes ordering goals by importance.
C. ordering goals by importance precedes clarifying goals.
D. there is no emphasis on the relative costs and benefits of each option.
Related Mcqs:
- The rational actor model of foreign policy decision making states that each decision in the foreign policy process involves?
A. setting goals.
B. calculating the cost and benefits of each possible course of action.
C. evaluating the relative importance of goals.
D. all of these: setting goals, evaluating their relative importance, and calculating the costs and benefits of each possible course of action. - In the ________ model of decision making, emphasis is placed on standard operating procedures.
A. groupthink
B. bureaucratic politics
C. organizational process
D. cognitive dissonance - The __________ model explains foreign policy decision making as a result of bargaining among the various government agencies that have somewhat divergent interests and responsibilities in the outcome.
A. government bargaining
B. rational actor
C. organizational process
D. interagency - When some kinds of information are screened out and not considered by decision makers, this referred to as?
A. wishful thinking.
B. bounded rationality.
C. groupthink.
D. selective perception. - According to David Held what would a ‘cosmopolitan model of democracy’ entail?
A. The creation of regional parliaments
B. Human rights conventions must be entrenched into national parliaments and monitored by a new International Court of Human Rights.
C. Reform and/or replacement of the UN with a more accountable global parliament
D. All of the above - On which level of analysis do peace studies NOT focus?
A. individual
B. interstate
C. domestic
D. global - The strand of feminist IR scholarship that valorizes the feminine by focusing on the unique contributions of women is ________ feminism.
A. difference
B. Marxist
C. postmodern
D. liberal - Which of these is an example of groupthink?
A. U.S war with Iraq (2003)
B. Cuban Missile Crisis
C. Iran-Contra scandal
D. All of these: the Iran-Contra scandal, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 2003 U.S war with Iraq - In order for a collective security regime to be successful, the members must agree on what constitutes?
A. a collective good.
B. aggression.
C. nonviolence.
D. hegemony. - Neo-liberals share with neo-realists their belief in:_______________?
A. the anarchic international structure and centrality of states.
B. theory of international regimes.
C. that anarchy does not mean durable patterns of cooperation are impossible.
D. all of the above.
