Author Question: What is the difference between balancing and bandwagoning, according to Walt? a. Balancing is the ... (Read 79 times)

BrownTown3 · **on:** Sep 10, 2018

What is the difference between balancing and bandwagoning, according to Walt?

a. Balancing is the more successful strategy.
b. Balancing is rational, while bandwagoning is irrational.
c. Bandwagoning is a less dangerous strategy than balancing.
d. Bandwagoning occurs only when a threat emerges, whereas balancing is the natural state of the international system.
e. Balancing involves aligning with others against a prevailing threat, while bandwagoning involves aligning with the threat itself.

Question 2

According to Doyle, what condition sufficiently explains why liberal states do not go to war against each other?

a. The citizens of a liberal state possess more peaceable attitudes than those of conservative states.
b. Liberal leaders are more inclined to peace than leaders of non-liberal states.
c. Relations among states of similar political ideology result in greater commonality of purpose.
d. Liberal states try to reach accommodations with other liberal states because liberal states are presumed to represent their citizens.
e. Liberal states possess an inherently peace loving philosophy.