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Which of the followings prevented geopolitics from being recognized as a distinct academic discipline for a considerable time?

1. Status-quo oriented states are those that are content with the current power configuration in the system and they do not aspire to change it.
2. They are merely concerned with their existing status within the system and want to make sure that it continues.
3. Their foreign policies most of the time begin and end at their national borders.
4. They are generally risk-averse states.
5. Rather than act, they react to external developments.
6. They are not concerned with how other states are ruled internally and act externally.

Which of the statements above related to status-quo oriented states are correct?

Which of the following is correct?

Who offered the idea that a new panEuropean security organization should be founded replacing western-dominated ones?

1. This era is also called as ideological geopolitics.
2. Ideological geopolitical competition was between the US and China.
3. Ideological competition was between the capitalist and communist blocks.

Which of the above is/are true about second generation of geopolitics?

The event that started the so-called fourth generation period in geopolitics was given the right in which of the following options?

Who is Mackinder?

1. While first and fourth generation of geopolitical competitions underline the primacy of hard power calculations and behaviors in relational relations, second and third generation of geopolitics tend to put more emphasis on soft power.
2. Critical geopolitics would on the other hand say that it is not easy to separate hard power from soft power and states employ a mix of all power capabilities and relations in their efforts to justify their geopolitical view and claims.
3. The concept of power is one of the most popular and elusive concepts in the academic discipline of International Relations.
4. Power is relational because for power to exist there needs to be at least two actors interacting with each other.

Which of the statements above related to power and geopolitics are correct?

In Alfred Mahan’s thinking, controlling ............... through a powerful navy would absolve the United States of taking direct control of other countries.

Which of the following is correct for the blank in the sentence above?

1. Since the second half of the nineteenth century till the onset of the Cold War era, geopolitics was mainly an imperial exercise undertaken by great powers.
2. Mackinder, a geographer in the United Kingdom, is considered to be the first important geopolitical thinker.
3. Mackinder’s heartland theory assumes that the particular power that controls the Eurasian landmass would eventually control the global politics and master the universe.
4. In Mackinder’s characterization, land powers are more likely to lay claim to regional and global hegemony than maritime powers.
5. From this perspective all great powers of the time were in a geopolitical competition to ensure that their rivals do not possess full control of the Eurasian landmass.

Which of the statements above related to geopolitics in early stages?

Which of the following disciplines is closely related to geopolitics?

What does China want to see about " Today’s Liberal World Order and Geopolitics "? Which of the following is not correct? 

When did Turkey ask western security protection against the Soviet Union? 

Which of the following type of powers think they need to invest some capital in order to help create legitimacy and attraction in the eyes of others?

What major event did second-generation geopolitics emerge in the years that followed?

Which decade has witnessed the rise of populist and illiberal political movements
in key western countries?

Whom does Turkey try to leverage its transit country role in its relations with?

Who argued that the road to global primacy in international politics would go through mastering oceans and other sea lines?

Which of the following is TRUE?

I.Russia is the main gas and oil provider in Europe.

II.The United States is already safe because of its territorial location. 

III.First generation geopolitical thinkers were quite influential in the dissemination of the idea that geography is destiny.