Discuss how each of the three levels of analysis—systemic, state, and individual—would explain and influence the 2003 Iraq war. Which level do you believe best explains and influences the conflict?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers could discuss the international system after the Cold War and September 11 for systemic factors. State factors could include cabinet and bureaucratic agencies such as the Department of Defense. Individual-level factors could include President Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden.
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A sign of weak democratization in Russia can be seen in the fact that
a. voter turnout has been low. b. no new parties have been formed since the creation of United Russia. c. national election laws effectively disqualify small national parties and regional parties. d. although the country has held regular elections, Russia has yet to experience a real transfer of power from one political grouping to another. e. new parties cannot be formed without the consent of the government.
Both Plato and Aristotle believed that ______ would be the most dangerous form of regime because it produced class rule in which the poor and uneducated govern for themselves rather than the commonwealth.
A. monarchy B. democracy C. oligarchy D. tyranny