The national interest
a. is a vague term intended to reflect the interests, desires, goals, and objectives
of a state.
b. is a clear objective whose definition for an individual country is rarely disputed.
c. is a concept invented by V. I. Lenin that refers to the class interest of communist
states.
d. none of the above
Question 2
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the state system that existed from World War II until the early 1990s?
a. It was based on a balance of power model.
b. It existed fundamentally unchanged, with few new additions to the numbers or types of international
actors.
c. It replaced a failed effort to create a collective security system between World Wars
I and II.
d. It had many fundamental flaws, but succeeded in keeping peace between major
actors.
A herd of Roosevelt Elk in Redwood National and State Parks, California
Specimen in the Doñana National Park
An exotic fox in Mornington Peninsula National Park with Mange.
Bipolar disease. The term bipolar means “pertaining to two poles.” The individual with this form of