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1. Unlike Mackinder, Alfred Mahan, a military historian in the United States, argued that the road to global primacy in international politics would go through mastering oceans and other sea lines.
2. He recommended that the leaders of the United States follow in the footsteps of the British Empire to build up a massive naval force if they want to become the most powerful country on earth.
3. In Mahan’s thinking, controlling sea traffic through a powerful navy would absolve the United States of taking direct control of other countries.
4. To Mahan, the United States should avoid transforming other nations in the image of American values and stay away from nation-building exercises in far distant places.
5. Mahan was of the view that Hamiltonianism would serve American global interests better than other strategies.

Which of the statements above related to Alfred Mahan are correct?

In the era after the 9/11 attacks, which country was believed to gradually transform into a liberal democratic polity?

1. International relations
2. Strategic studies
3. Security studies

Which of the above is/are among the disciplines that geopolitics has close links?

1. In today’s international order, the ideological polarization of opposing power blocks is not as sharp and rigid as it was during the Cold War era.
2. The interconnectedness between liberal western powers and illiberal authoritarian powers is much higher now than it was between western capitalist and eastern communist countries during the Cold war era.
3. Not only are there more actors in international relations but also issues have become so complex that dealing with them increasingly requires global perspectives.
4. This world order leads states with various power capabilities to adopt multidimensional and multidirectional foreign policy strategies.
5. Even though the debate on the decline of the West still lingers and many question the idea of declinizm in the United States, it is now clear that the United States under Trump’s presidency no longer wants to play the leader of the liberal international order.
6. This creates enough room for non-western rising powers to act more assertively and become more visible across the globe.

Which of the statements above related to fourth generation geopolitics are correct?

1. Geopolitics tries to examine the relationship between geography and politics.
2. Geopolitics ascertains the impact of geographical location and characteristics of states on the interplay of international political competition among them.
3. Geopolitics as a unique academic discipline has close links to International Relations, Security Studies and Strategic Studies.
4. There is close relationship between geopolitics and geo-economics.

Which of the statements above related to geopolitics are correct?

From the dissolution of the Soviet Union onwards the erstwhile non-capitalist societies would gradually become part of the US-led liberal capitalist world order because the end of the Cold War left them only with this option.

Which of the following is the owner of the above opinion?

What has come into being following the end of World War II under American leadership?

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

1. The fundamental claim of critical geopolitical studies is that all kinds of geopolitical understandings are subjective and reflect particular values and previously conceived national interests.
2. From the perspective of critical geopolitics, meanings attributed to particular geographical locations emanate from deeply held political interests and subjective understandings of identity
3. The question to be asked, from the perspective of critical geopolitics, should be which political interests are cloaked under particular geopolitical conceptualizations at different times.
4. The question of whose geopolitical imagination will prevail in the final analysis will be profoundly determined by the distribution of power capabilities within the international system.
5. All claims to objective geopolitical analyses in fact mask particular political motivations and interests
6. Critical geopolitics as a subfield of geopolitics tries to uncover hidden political purposes and motivations lying behind allegedly objective and neutral geopolitical observations.
7. From the perspective of critical geopolitics, there are no objective geopolitical claims.

Which of the statements above related to critical geopolitics are correct?

1. Third generation geopolitics began with the end of the Cold War rivalry between two opposing power blocks adopting diverging political ideologies.
2. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the unification of Germany in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 epitomized the end of ideological geopolitics.
3. Since the early 1990s till the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, analysts observed the rise of a new geopolitical understanding being defined by many as a new world order.
4. New world order geopolitics suggested that there was only one super power all over the world and all other states would gain influence in international politics in relation to the status of their relationship with the global hegemon.
5. That sole superpower happened to be the United States.
6. There was a huge power gap between the United States and all other countries and it was nearly impossible for any country, acting alone or in cooperation with others, to counterbalance the American hegemony.
7. Hence, bandwagoning appears to have replaced balancing in the age American primacy in global politics.

Which of the statements above related to third generation geopoltics are correct?

Which of the following statements regarding the features of the third generation geopolitical period is not true?

Who is considered to be the first important geopolitical thinker?

1. Geopolitics in its early stages was closely associated with Germany’s foreign policy practices, a latecomer in the struggle for building colonial empires across the globe.
2. Friedrich Ratzel and Karl Haushofer are the most notable German geopolitical thinkers and their thoughts on geopolitics profoundly shaped foreign policies of Nazi Germany during the interwar years and Second World War.
3. The impact of Friedrich Ratzel and Karl Haushofer’s thought on Nazi Germany’s policies was so decisive and pernicious that geopolitics had been for a long time associated with Hitler’s Germany and considered to be an intellectual exercise serving Hitler’s goals to institute German hegemony across the globe.
4. Rather than geopolitics being recognized as a respectable field of academic study, even the word of geopolitics was avoided in writings on international relations.
5. Hitler’s policies gave a bad reputation to geopolitics.
6. It took some time to recognize geopolitics as a distinct academic discipline.

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

Who is the first known major geopolitician in world history?

Which of the following signals the beginning of the third generation of geopolitics?

Which of the following is the geopolitical approach that raises the question of the study of geopolitics on an objective and scientific level?

1. its continental size and huge population
2. its assertive and aggressive foreign policy over the last decade
3. its pursuing strategy of global hegemony in recent years

Which of the above is/are among the key characteristics of China's rise in today's geopolitics?

Which countries had a ideological geopolitical competition during the Cold War era?

Which of the followings is among the classical examples of land powers?