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Class: New warfare has become between strong countries and poor countries. Or paying people within a country to fight amongst themselves. No fighting between countries.
 * 1) According to the authors, what are the three basic assumptions of realists? What criticisms do they offer.?
 * 2) States as coherent units are the dominant actors in world politics.
 * 3) States are predominant.
 * 4) They act as coherent units.
 * 5) Force is a usable and effective instrument of policy
 * 6) Other instruments may also be employed, but using or threatening force is the most effective means of wielding power.
 * 7) Assume a hierarchy of issues in world politics, headed by questions of military security
 * 8) The high politics of military security dominates the low politics of economic and social affairs.
 * 9) These assumptions define an ideal type of world politics
 * 10) Define the idea of " Complex Interdependence"
 * 11) Multiple channels connect societies
 * 12) Interstate relationships consist of multiple issues that are not arranged in a clear or consistent hierarchy
 * 13) Military force is not used by governments toward other governments within the region,
 * 1) Hierarchy of issues does not exist - at least in the way the realists describe it.
 * 2) War is not effective
 * 3) Multiple channels of interaction
 * Treaties - trade, pollution, territorial, refugees, aids, Tsunamis, Oil.
 * Trade - McDonalds
 * Sports
 * Culture
 * Immigration
 * Alliances
 * More trade multinational corporations
 * 1) Multiple channels of interaction improve relations between states and increase the likelihood of cooperation.
 * 2) According to the authors, why has military force become less important in the industrialized world? Give several explanations.
 * 3) Fears of attacks have declined.
 * 4) Fears of attacks by one another is virtually nonexistent.
 * 5) Force is often not an appropriate way of achieving other goals such as economis and ecological welfare that are becoming more important.
 * 6) The effects of military force are both costly and uncertain.
 * 1)  What behaviors are critical for Complex interdependence to be successful? What is the most important element of this theory?
 * 2) Trade
 * 3) Similar issues
 * 4) Hierarchy among issues.
 * 5) Trade, climate tourism, trade both have signed, immigration. All of these issues of equal importance increases the likelihood of cooperation