| University | University Of Otago (UO) |
| Subject | International Politics |
Questions
1. What is distinctive about the study of international relations? Is it a subject of growing importance in the 21M century?
2. “Despite its flaws, realism remains the most convincing international relations theory for understanding the international system during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.” Discuss.
3. Would you agree the Berlin blockade confirmed rather than caused the development of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-1945 period?
4. Why was Soviet-American détente unable to prevent the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the subsequent escalation to a superpower nuclear confrontation towards the end of that conflict?
5. Does India’s huge conventional military superiority over Pakistan weaken or strengthen Waltz’s claim that the acquisition of nuclear weapons by these states deters the prospect of an Indo-Pakistan war?
6. How did America’s defeat in Vietnam contribute to circumstances that led to the ‘Second Cold War after 1979?
7. Assess the claim that the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s vindicated the strategy of containment that all US administrations had more or less followed since 1947?
8. The UN has often promised more than it can deliver. Discuss this statement with reference to the international persistence of either (a) war or (b) global inequality.
9. Why have diplomatic efforts to address the problem of climate change over three decades failed? Does this failure indicate that the new diplomatic emphasis on international human rights after 1945 has been more symbolic than real?
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