Geopolitics 2

Question 1

Realpolitik definition

Answer 1

politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of power and on practical and material factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral or ethical premises

Question 2

Realpolitik example

Answer 2

WW2 Britain and America, democratic countries allied with the communist USSR to defeat Nazi Germany,

Question 3

Power

Answer 3

the ability to affect others to get what you want

Question 4

Power seduction is

Answer 4

Universal

Question 5

Technique behind soft power

Answer 5

You have to convince people to think something

Question 6

Power is

Answer 6

Very broad in the Information Age, and two way communications are very useful

Question 7

Information is plentiful but…

Answer 7

Attention and Credibility is hard to get

Question 8

People now

Answer 8

Invest in relationships

Question 9

In hard power

Answer 9

It doesn’t matter what somebody thinks

Question 10

Soft power leaves out

Answer 10

the original foreign policy methods such as carrot or stick

Question 11

Soft power was developed by

Answer 11

Joseph Nye

Question 12

Soft power is the….

Answer 12

ability to persuade and attract, It works as a method of magnetism, as a result of becoming admired, trusted, liked, or respected. It relies on putting thoughts into a person’s head and to leave them alone with that thought. This is why people believe in its effectiveness, and the persuasion behind it

Question 13

People confuse soft power with

Answer 13

influence, influence does include having an important effect on something. However, it relies more heavily on Hard Power than Soft.

Question 14

Soft power like most techniques is

Answer 14

not exclusive for government use. Even though this is the case, it takes a key role in government leadership because it entails attraction through use of power.

Question 15

Where has the British government been involved is soft power?

Answer 15

as part of the “Government’s National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review.” The British government invested over £85 million into global Soft Power.

Question 16

What is different about hard power

Answer 16

You have to leave a person with a thought in soft, in addition, Hard power describes approaches to political relations, mainly within a military context.

Question 17

How is soft power ranked

Answer 17

The Soft Power 30 ranks countries worldwide based on who is the most soft powerful. They poll 7000 people across 20 countries

Question 18

Mackinder believed….

Answer 18

Whoever rules East Europe, will rule Heartland, Whoever rules the Heartland, will rule the World Island.” Whoever rules the World Island, will rule the world.”

Question 19

Spykman though that the heartland could not be Europe’s hub because

Answer 19

Western Russia was then an agrarian society, Bases of industrialization were found to the west of the Ural mountains.
This area is ringed to the north, east, south, and south-west by some of the greater obstacles to transportation (ice and freezing temperature, lowering mountains etc.). There has never really been a simple land power–sea power opposition.

Question 20

Groups of the clash of civilisations

Answer 20

West, Islam, Orthodox, Chinese, Hindu, Japan, Latin America, Africa

Question 21

What is the clash of civilisations

Answer 21

A hypothesis that describes people’s cultural and religious identities being the primary source of conflict in the post Cold War world

Question 22

According to the COC, how many parts was the world divided into during the Cold War

Answer 22

3

Question 23

What did the COC say about cultural lines

Answer 23

Because of these cultural lines, the Soviet Union would separate as well as Yugoslavia. Other groups like the nation state other countries would align based on the similarities in cultures

Question 24

What did the COC estimate?

Answer 24

There would be an Islamic conflict that wouldn’t be major, democracy and capitalism would bring harmony, that China would want hegemonic power, and that there would be millions of new immigrants.

Question 25

When was the COC written?

Answer 25

In 1996 by Huntington

Question 26

What did the COC say about the west

Answer 26

Western society is interesting, different individual, modernising the world. Western vs modernisation, people wish to be modern, modern tech, modern science, doesn’t mean they may want to support western culture. Separation is hard here but some countries such as Japan divide in this way. Modern but not completely Western
People think of western as fast food, superficial, fashion