Grieco
In the Geo-Economic Competition model, which of the following is the key nation-state objective?
Military security, Economic security, Hegemony, or Diplomatic supremacy
Economic Security
Kaplan states that simply by invading and staying there so long, America has acquired substantial stakes in the outcomes of _____ and ______.
Iraq and Afghanistan
“One country, two systems” refers to a principle between China and __________.
Hong Kong
This charter, drafted in 1215, codified limitations on the powers of the king.
Magna Carta
Which school of economic thought emphasizes socioeconomic classes as the main players in the economy?
Marxism
What is the term for the provision by a donor government to a developing country of grants or loans with highly favorable repayment terms?
Official Development Assistance
This valley is part of a deep rift in the earth's surface that stretches from Syria for 3,700 miles south to Mozambique.
The Jordan River valley
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Who wrote, "What is liberty without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils...it is madness without restraint."
Edmund Burke
Iran has become associated with terrorism, in large part due to their support of which armed group?
Hezbollah in Lebanon
Definition: Average monetary value of goods and services produced by each person in a country in a given year.
GDP per capita
Editor Benjamin Schwarz wrote, "______ will very soon become a minority in the lands they occupy...and some demographers forecast that in fifteen years they will make up as little as 42 percent of the population in this area".
Jews
After World War I ________ occupied much of Iran and controlled its growing oil industry.
The United Kingdom
Mangalwadi wrote, "_______ has been excluded by the secular worldview. The best it can do is to teach you how to avoid the long arm of the law."
Character
Definition: A currency that can be exchanged at market price for the currency of another country.
Convertible currency
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Historian David Kennedy noted that the income gap between ________ and ________ is the largest between any two contiguous countries in the world, with the GDP of the former being nine times that of the latter.
United States and Mexico
Created in 1991, Russia uses this loose integrationist body of former Soviet republics to help coordinate its relations in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Commonwealth of Independent States
According to Mangalwadi, our unique gift of ________ enables us to create culture.
language
Definition: Aggressive actions by a state intended to damage another state economically.
Economic Warfare
If a British mutual fund purchases shares in a Polish energy firm, but not enough to have any management say in the firm, the British mutual fund has engaged in ________ __________ ___________.
International portfolio investment
What natural resource does Kaplan mention as evidence that the Russian threat has a time limit?
Which region of Russia is home to most of the country’s non-Russian population and has been the site of much of the country’s ethnic conflict in recent decades?
The Caucuses
Who wrote, "Can we as men, or as Christians hear that a great part of our fellow creatures, whose souls are as immortal as ours...are without the Gospel, without government, without laws, without arts, and sciences, and not exert ourselves to introduce amongst them the sentiments of men, and of Christians?"
William Carey (missionary to India)
According to Eidsmoe, a biblically based foreign policy must be one of absolute and uncompromising opposition to __________?
Communism
Definition: The idea that international conflict in the future will be characterized not by interstate conflict but rather by conflict between civilizations.
Clash of Civilizations
What country completely covers the Anatolian land bridge?
Turkey
Gorbachev’s reforms in the 1980s relied on the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika". What do these terms mean?
Political openness and economic restructuring
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In his book Witness, he wrote of Communism, "It is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: 'Ye shall be as gods.'...The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God."
Whittaker Chambers