Author Question: Why are great-power efforts to assure they have sufficient water to meet their needs likely to lead ... (Read 43 times)

FButt · **on:** Sep 10, 2018

Why are great-power efforts to assure they have sufficient water to meet their needs likely to lead to an increased risk of conflict, according to Dupont?

a. States always fight over natural resources.
b. These efforts are likely to alienate other states.
c. People around the world think water should be shared, not hoarded.
d. Water resources often lie under or pass through more than one state.
e. State sovereignty supersedes individuals' water demands.

Question 2

Posen says: States will want more, but will not wish to court disaster. What does he mean?

a. States will rely more on diplomacy in a unipolar world.
b. States will be more likely to ally with the United States in a multipolar world.
c. States will go to war for control of natural resources more often in a multipolar world.
d. States will be more likely to stay neutral in a unipolar world than in a multipolar world.
e. In a multipolar world, states will compete for relative power more fiercely than in a unipolar world.