Quotes
This political thinker claimed that “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli? (Who is Machiavelli? Is also acceptable).
NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This theory states that states have little interest in conquest and that wars happen between great powers happen because domestic groups foster exaggerated perceptions of threat.
What is defensive realism?
Kennedy’s failure to support this faltering covert operation with American military reinforcements increased his image as a weak leader with Khrushchev leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This president established the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as Star Wars.
Who is Ronald Reagan? (Who is Reagan? and Who is President Reagan? are also acceptable).
This 20th century Secretary of State claimed that “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”
Who is Henry Kissinger?
WTO
What is World Trade Organization?
This is the strategy of making another nation balance against a rising global power.
What is buck-passing?
The German violation of this country’s neutrality helped bring Great Britain into WWI.
Who was Belgium?
This revolutionary led a Peoples’ Revolutionary War using guerrilla tactics.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Finish this quote by Thomas Hobbes: “Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, ___, ____, ___ ___.”
What is nasty, brutish, and short?
DPT
What is democratic peace theory?
This movement in IR theory that examines how changing international norms and actors' identities help shape the content of state interests.
What is constructivism?
During the period before WWI, this country was emboldened to stand up to Austria-Hungary by its alliance with Russia.
Who was Serbia?
This diplomat wrote the Long Telegram.
Who is George Kennan?
Finish this quote by Thucydidies: “The strong do what they can, and the weak __ __ __ __.”
What is suffer what they must?
A2AD
What is Anti-Access/Area Denial?
This theorist argued that institutions are tools of great powers but cannot change the way great powers behave; they just reflect the balance of power.
Who is Mearshimer?
This country was a guarantor of Czechoslovakia’s security after WWI.
Who was France?
This statesman united Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Finish this quote, also by Thucydides: “The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, ___ ___ ___.”
What is made war inevitable?
JCPOA
What is Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action?
According to this defense of democratic peace theory, democratic leaders internalize norms of live and let live and peaceful conflict resolution, which they externalize into the international system.
What is normative logic?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis this was the preferred option of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to deal with the Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What were surgical air strikes?
This leader was the leader of Germany during WWI.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm?