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Questions
1. The war in Ukraine is at root about the shift in national identity in Ukraine towards the liberalism of the West.
2. Great Power states did not use force to stop the Rwandan genocide because, at the time, the principle of sovereignty was a stronger international norm than the principle of a responsibility to protect civilians. If human rights norms were stronger than the rule of respecting sovereignty, then military action would have been taken.
3. Venezuela is on the brink of civil war because Chavez, and then Maduro, dismantled the institutions of democracy. As the country became less democratic, violence and disorder became more likely.
4. The key reason that states have not been able to negotiate an agreement about how to combat the dangers of climate change is that corporations that profit from industrialization that causes climate change, such as the burning of coal and oil, and decisions of nation-states always reflect the interests of wealthy corporations.
5. Although the World Bank claims to pursue a mission of alleviating poverty, it is largely directed by the Core wealthy nation-states and is therefore a force for maintaining global inequalities.
6. The war in Ukraine today is a reflection of a growing conflict over power in Europe between Russia and the European Union; a renewed cold war battle through the heart of Ukraine as the East and West vie for regional power supremacy.
7. The United States and China are unlikely to face war between them because of how deeply their economies are intertwined.
8. The United States and China will be unable to avoid increasing conflict and decreasing ability to cooperate because of the shift into bipolarity as China's power rises
9. Countries of Western Europe have maintained stable peace between them since WWII because they have forged ever closer economic and political institutions of interdependency
10. Countries of Western Europe have maintained stable peace between them since WWII because the United States has used its strength and wealth to establish stability in Europe.