True or False: 1. One of the key assumptions in realism is thatthe international system is anarchic. This assumption implies thatinternational politics is built on the logic of self-help. 2.Offensive realism emphasizes that states are power maximizers. 3.Ethnic nationalism that demands national self-determination of anethnic/national group tends to make an existing state stronger. 4.In an environment of shifting balance of power, rising powers feela growing sense of entitlement and demand greater influence andrespect. Established powers, faced with challengers, tend to becomefearful, insecure, and defensive. In such an environment,misunderstandings are magnified, empathy remains elusive, andevents and third-party actions that would otherwise beinconsequential or manageable can trigger wars that the primaryplayers never wanted to fight. Graham Allison refers to thisdynamic “Thucydides’ trap.†5. According to the neorealist view,national security or insecurity is largely the result of domesticpolitical dynamics within the state. 6. Stephen Walt contends thatthere is no difference between regional balancing and bandwagoning.7. Whereas a limited war is fought a lesser goal than politicalexistence, a total war occurs when a state or other politicalentity is fighting for its existence. 8. One of the contemporarytrends in the global warfare is that war and society in globalSouth and North have become interconnected in new ways in the Waron Terror. 9. There is no distinction between regional cooperationand regional integration. 10. The African Union has beenestablished, based on eight Regional Economic Communities that haveachieved significant results in functional cooperation. It can beargued, then, the African Union has achieved deep regionalintegration. 11. When a country possess the infrastructure,material, and technical capabilities to quickly assemble a nuclearweapon, but has not made a nuclear weapon yet. This capability isknown as latent nuclear capacity. 12. The concept of“stability-instability paradox†suggests that nuclear deterrence isnot effective since a large-scale nuclear warfare is always likelybetween nuclear powers. 13. Nuclear optimists argue that theproliferation of nuclear weapons will contribute to stability ininternational relations.