Author Question: During most of the cold war years, the United States possessed a. a nuclear monopoly vis--vis the ... (Read 23 times)

jc611 · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

During most of the cold war years, the United States possessed

a. a nuclear monopoly vis--vis the Soviet Union.
b. a nuclear force equal to or stronger than the Soviet Union.
c. fewer nuclear weapons than the Soviet Union, thus leading to the term missile gap..
d. about the same number of nuclear weapons as the Soviet Union.

Question 2

The __________ model depicts a decentralized government in which the key actors are bureaucratic organizations rather than the president or a group of policymakers. Policymaking tends to be feudal, with most bureaucratic organizations relatively autonomous from the political leadership and each other. In this process, U.S. foreign policy consists of the sum of the various foreign policies produced by the organizations comprising the foreign policy bureaucracy.

a. rational actor c. organizational process
b. governmental politics d. groupthink