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.
