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..............  would simply connect the energy thirsty European Union members to energy abundant countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Middle East.

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

Which two countries did the geopolitical race last during the Cold War years?

1. During the Cold War era, both the United States and the Soviet Union did their best to increase the number of countries adopting their political ideologies.
2. The United States and the Soviet Union’s goal was to help enlarge their ideological sphere of influence.
3. A more recent example of ideological geopolitics has taken place over the last decade when the illiberal authoritarian model of China and Russia appears to have dented the image of liberal democracy in the West.
4. The emerging geopolitical rivalry between today’s United States and China can in no way be compared to the ideological rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War era.
5. It would not be wrong to argue that the emerging geopolitical competition between Beijing and Washington does also demonstrate diverging normative understandings of political and economic values.
6. Even though Trump’s America is fast moving in the direction of illiberal democracy, it would not be wrong to argue that the escalating geopolitical competition between the United States on the one hand and China and Russia on the other demonstrates strong ideological characteristics.

Which of the statements above related to geopolitics during the Cold War era are correct?

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about China?

Which of the following is considered as the beggining of the Third generation geopolitics?

1. The word ‘geopolitics’ consists of two different words,
2. ‘Geo’ is the abbreviation of geography.
3. Politics means deciding who gets what, how and when.
4. Geography consists of two words, geo and graphy.
5. Geo means earth and graphy means writing.
6. Geopolitics means the politics of writing the earth.

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

Which of the below is an example of intangible sources of power?

Which country below is NOT one of the Quad members?

President Trump has defined the rise of ........... as the number one geopolitical challenge levelled against American primacy in global politics.

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

1. The status-quo changer states prioritizing foreign policy behaviors of others would primarily focus on increasing their material power capabilities vis-a-vis others.
2. At stake for them is the material distribution of power capabilities within the system at a given time.
3. The status-quo changer states trying to project their values and norms onto others would on the other hand be profoundly concerned with the normative foundations of the system.
4. They would hold that their power over others would positively vary with their ability to help transform them in the image of their values and norms.
5. Status-quo changer states of this kind are all normative powers in that they try to achieve their goals by projecting and expanding their norms onto others.

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

1. The extreme self-confidence on the part of the American statesmen led them to argue that the United States is the indispensable nation and there is no need to help bring into existence new regional or global security organizations that would potentially replace NATO.
2. It was in accordance with such thinking that whenever the Russian leadership offered the idea that a new pan-European security organization should be founded replacing western-dominated ones, the Americans simply ignored them.
3. A cardinal characteristic of the third generation geopolitics was that the possibility of any great power war would be almost zero because it was assumed that all great powers would pay an utmost care to get along with the United States well.
4. During this time period many states across the globe, saving the United States, decreased their military spending in proportion to their Cold War era spending and armies went through a transformation process thereby their peacekeeping and peacemaking capabilities improved.

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

Which of the following is not one of the tangible sources?

Which of the following is TRUE about the first stage of geopolitical thinking?

1. As geo-economic and geopolitical motivations have become more decisive in states’ foreign policies, the dynamics of alliance relationships have also gone through a radical transformation.
2. The practice of forming interest-oriented cooperation initiatives within multilateral and bilateral frameworks has gained ground in recent years.
3. In today’s world, countries of different value orientations, geographical locations, power capabilities, and threat perceptions are no longer bound to define each other categorically as enemies or friends.
4. The notion of ‘frenemy’ has already become an identity signifier in interstate relations.
5. The practice of coalitions defining missions has gradually given way to the practice of missions defining coalitions.
6. As opposed to Cold War bipolarity and the unipolar order during the first two decades of the post-Cold War era, the practice of illiberal authoritarian states engaging in pragmatic outcome-oriented cooperation with liberal-minded states is now conceivable.

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

Which of the following is TRUE about the United States?

I.Since the early 1990s until 2008, it dictated international politics.

II.Until 2008, the rise of China was not central to American strategic considerations.

III.It occupied Iraq in 2003.

IV. During the wars in the Balkans and the Caucasus during the 1990s, it decreased its military spending.