Deneme Sınavı Soruları

The energy exploration in and around the Caspian Basin created a source of tension and a strong competition among international actors. Which of the following cannot be listed among these actors?

What was the official U.S. policy during the 1980s and 1990s that aimed at surrounding
Iran and Iraq, the two most strategic adversaries of the U.S. and Israel in the Middle East?

The theory of geopolitics that Friedrich Ratzel introduced was:

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 one below is NOT correct?