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PSU PLSC EXAM 3 questions with 100%correct answers graded A+ passed(23)
Tools States use to project power - correct answer ✔✔Aid
sanctions
Development Aid - correct answer ✔✔- Addressing long term poverty
- Development over time to produce economic growth
- Return on investment from aiding countries
Military Aid - correct answer ✔✔aid which is used to assist a country or its people in its defense efforts,
or to assist a poor country in maintaining control over its own territory
Aid for Democracy - correct answer ✔✔a strand of foreign policy adopted by governments and
international organizations that seek to support the spread of democracy as a political regime around
the world
Humanitarian Aid - correct answer ✔✔Foreign aid extended in regions where there are emergencies
caused by violent conflicts or natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, intended to
save lives, ensure access to basic necessities and provide assistance with reconstruction.
The Marshall Plan (1948) - correct answer ✔✔- "European Recovery Program"
- George Marshall, US Sec of State
- $12 billion ($128 billion today)
- Rebuild war-torn regions
- Remove trade barriers
- Modernize industry
- Improve european prosperity
If europe is not helped by US European countries will end up communism
Destitute people and economic struggle result in communism
,- PREVENT COMMUNISM
Criticisms of Aid - correct answer ✔✔- Questions about effectiveness
- U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), sharply criticized bilateral and multilateral aid (provided by UN) to
African countries, stating it was wasteful, not effective
- Prompts **moral hazard and dependency**
- Does not always get to the intended target
- Can often foster corruption
- Should come with conditions
- **Is a form of neo-imperialism**
Criticisms of Aid: Prompts moral hazard and dependency - correct answer ✔✔- Safeguards bad decision
making
- Irresponsible habits
- Suffer consequences of bad policy decisions
Criticisms of Aid: Does not always get to the intended target - correct answer ✔✔- Aid that might be for
something else lost in corruption
- Lining pockets of people who don't need aid
- Enriching officials who distribute the aid or have place in government
- Pull or cut off aid if distributed incorrectly; withhold aid or monitor how it gets used
Moral Hazard - correct answer ✔✔When the act of insuring an event increases the likelihood that the
event will happen
Trade Sanctions - correct answer ✔✔- If a country is behaving a way countries can persuade them by
telling them
they would stop trade which would hurt them economically
- Russia can't produce high tech products; relies on other countries
- Puts pressure on Russia in order to get the sanctions removed
, -Aid Sanctions
-Pulling aid
Financial Sanctions - correct answer ✔✔- Banking transactions
- isolates russia
- Affects flow of investments
-Putin uses overseas banks; pressure them into changing policies
Smart or Targeted Sanctions - correct answer ✔✔- Putin's inner circle
- Specifically certain people
Ex. can't take money out of putin's account, can't travel to certain places
Total or Comprehensive Sanctions - correct answer ✔✔- US with Iran
- Bargaining them completely
- Cut off all aid
Third Party Sanctions - correct answer ✔✔- Sanctions on other countries or businesses who do business
with Cuba
- Dissuade them from investing in those businesses
Sanctions against Iran - correct answer ✔✔- Bilateral sanctions issued by US after 1979 hostage crisis
- Trade embargo
- Military aid embargo
- Freezing of $12 billion in iranian assets
- UN security council sanctions to prompt iran to comply with nuclear inspections
Multilateral Sanctions against Russia - correct answer ✔✔- In response to 2022 invasion of Ukraine
- More than 30 countries
- Cuts trade, including energy imports
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