POLS-121 SBCC FINAL QUESTIONS WITH 100 % CORRECT ANSWERS | VERIFIED

India's and China's positions in the international system - Answer-- China is rising its military spending, second biggest economy since 2011, Economy growing faster than Americas - India has a huge potential to be a great power and a global stabilizer, however, they show little interest in such strategy, lacks the culture to pursue an active security policy Thucydides Trap - Answer-when a rising power causes fear in an established power, increases risk for war Zbigniew Brzezinski's argument in PBS Newshour video "The U.S. Should... - Answer-Work with Russia and Turkey to increase vitality of the west, US power declines with the rise of China and can no longer dictate the world The Liberal Order - Answer-Institutions based on norms, rules, free trade, security cooperation and multilateralism Joseph Nye - Answer-coined the term of soft power which referst to "the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments" Soft power - Answer-National image, quality of government/leadership,public support,diplomatic skills,cultural influence, morale and the power of ideas and language John Ikenberry's argument regarding the liberal order - Answer-The US has been at the center of creating and leading this liberal order by fostering alliances, stabilizing the world economy and promoting values of openness and liberal democracy. Offers a sharp criticism of the Trump Administration's foreign policy course. Liberal order threatened. Nuclear weapons delivery systems - Answer-is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Nuclear weapons arsenal - Answer-approx: 14.485 nuclear weapons Russia: 6850 USA: 6460 France: 300China: 270 The Uk: 215 Pakistan: 140 India: 130 Israel: 80 North Korea: 20 Manhattan Project - Answer-A secret U.S. project during WW2 for the construction of the atomic bomb, dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki International Atomic Energy Agency - Answer-the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy Non-Proliferation Treaty - Answer-A multilateral treaty signed in 1968 which aims to control the spread of nuclear weapons; extended indefinitely in May 1995. The treaty has been signed by over 175 nations. intermidiate-range nuclear forces treaty - Answer-treaty signed by president Ronald Raegan and soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; eliminated all medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe Post-Cold-War proliferation of nuclear weapons - Answer-India,Pakistan and Israel refused to sign the NPT, North Korea resigned in 2003, Iran have violated the treaty Iran's nuclear program - Answer-Deal between Iran and the Un-Security counsil that countries would lift economic sanctions in return that Iran would restrict its nuclear activity