POL 202 Chapter 6

Choose all of the following that are accurate statements about insurgencies.

Correct: -Insurgencies often involve hit-and-run tactics. -Insurgencies do not rely on capturing and holding territory. -Insurgencies try to blend into the civilian population. Incorrect: -Insurgencies use conventional warfare strategies.

Choose all of the following statements that are supported by the figure.

Correct: -More states have been involved in civil wars than interstate wars for most of the post-World War II era. -Interstate wars have nearly disappeared in recent years. Incorrect: -Most of the 1800s saw more interstate wars per year than civil wars. -In any given year, more than 100 states are involved in some type of warfare.

Why might civil wars cluster geographically? Choose all of the following that are correct.

Correct: -Risk factors of civil wars, such as low economic development, also cluster geographically. -Armed groups involved in civil wars often cross borders and create conflict in more than one state. -Civil wars can create refugee flows to neighbors that overwhelm the neighboring state's capabilities. Incorrect: -UN interventions in civil conflicts often destabilize neighboring regimes.

When we say that terrorist groups are inherently weak, what do we mean?

Correct: -They are weak relative to the states they seek to coerce. -They are weak relative to the extensive demands they make. Incorrect: -They are weak in clearly defining their goals. -They are weak in terms of the determination of their followers.

Choose all of the following that are methods that states use for dealing with terrorism.

Correct: -preemption -defensive measures -criminalization -negotiation Incorrect: -spoiling -provocation

A proxy war is an example of a country-level factor that contributes to civil wars.

False

Most modern civil wars involve conventional warfare between two (or more) sides.

False

Preemption is always a cost-effective way for states to deal with terrorism

False

In which of the following situations is an international institution such as the UN most likely to succeed?

International forces can keep the peace after the combatants have decided to stop fighting

What separates terrorism from other criminal attacks?

Political or social goals

Rebel groups and terrorists are both non-state actors. They have similarities and differences in how they seek to advance their goals. Which of the following are examples of similarities and which are examples of differences?

Similarities: -using violence for political goals -being weaker than their adversaries -having difficulties in organizing individuals to engage in violence Differences: -targeting civilians

What does it mean when we say that terrorists are extremists

Their willingness to die or kill is not shared by many others

Most terrorist attacks are domestic and not transnational in nature.

True

A rebel group engaged in an insurgency against the government and a terrorist network targeting civilians for political purposes are best characterized as examples of what kind of warfare?

asymmetrical

often involves asymmetrical warfare

both

represents violence carried out by a nonstate actor

both

occurs between the government and a rebel group(s)

civil war

pits the government against one or more rebel groups within a state

civil war

Of the three main bargaining failures that can lead to war, which provides the best explanation for why civil wars often last for many years, if not decades, before there is some kind of settlement or decisive military outcome?

commitment problems

primarily targets noncombatants

terrorism