Which of the following has not been suggested as the future of the international system?
a. a multipolar system
b. unipolar system centered around the power of the United States
c. a system based on regional blocs centered around the United States, Europe, and
Japan
d. a return the Cold War like we saw it in the 1950s and 1960s
Question 2
Today's international system
a. is beset by too many forces for change to allow anyone to be able truly to
predict the course of the future.
b. offers us a rather easily predictable future assuming that major NorthSouth
conflicts do not occur.
c. is in most ways similar to the system created by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.
Few changes have taken place, and few changes are foreseeable for the future.
d. is beset by international conflicts caused almost exclusively by the advance of
science and technology. If this forward rush can be harnessed and controlled, it is
likely that conflict can be reduced and even eliminated in the present system.