The key assumptions of the balance of power concept include all of the following except
a. that all states want to prevent large-scale war and preserve the existence of at least the major states in the international system.
b. that all states must formalize custom into permanent treaties to prevent rupturing the system into petty warfare.
c. that all states are fundamentally motivated in their foreign policy by power considerations and national interests.
d. that states are willing and able to join alliances (and to change them) to prevent the dominance of any one state.
e. that there are few domestic political constraints preventing states from acting in the political arena.
Question 2
Since WWII, the Monroe Doctrine has been used to justify all of the following foreign policy actions except
a. the support of the 1954 coup against Jacob Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala.
b. the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
c. the removal of British forces from the Falkland Islands in 1982.
d. the 1989 overthrow of Manuel Antonio Noriega in Panama.
e. the U.S. Marines deployment to Haiti in 2004 after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country.
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