The use of retaliatory threats to discourage attacks against the state making the threat is known as

A) balancing deterrence.
B) direct deterrence.
C) extended deterrence.
D) general deterrence.
E) immediate deterrence.

B

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A. 1.50% B. 3.15% C. 4.50% D. 7.25%

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Which of the following observations would falsify the main hypothesis of this article?

A. Oil reliance is unrelated to a country’s level of democracy. B. Oil reliance decreases a country’s level of democracy. C. Islamic countries have a higher level of democracy. D. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have a lower level of democracy.

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