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| Question | Answer |
| What did Steve Coll say that Cinton had the possibility of doing once? | Killing UBL in a cruise missile strike |
| Which Greek Historian and General had something to say about statesmanship? | Thucydides |
| What did Thucydides say that states are under? | "under an innate compulsion to rule when empowered" |
| What Thucydides say states expand in? | "states expand in the absence of countervailing power" |
| What did Bush say about the promotion of liberty? | The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands |
| What does John Thompson say Bush presented as vital to US security? | Democracy promotion |
| What does Monten say the Bush Doctrine isn't? | New! |
| What does Monten say the Bush doctrine is an operationalization of? | Neo-Conservatism |
| What is Hegemonic Stability Theory? | Indicates that the international system is more likely to remain stable when a single nation-state is the dominant world power, or hegemon |
| What is Uni-Polarity? | A distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the cultural, economic, and military influence |
| What is Prospect Theory? | A theory that people value gains and losses differently and, as such, will base decisions on perceived gains rather than perceived losses. Thus, if a person were given two equal choices, one expressed in terms of possible gains and the other in possible losses, people would choose the former |
| What was the Lodge Corollary? | US policy to stop other nations buying up large areas of land in hemisphere |
| When was the Lodge Corollary? | 1912 |
| What did Bush announce in his 2002 State of the Union address? | The Axis of Evil |
| Who made up the Axis of Evil? | Iraq, Iran, North Korea |
| What did NSS 2002 say about technology, terrorism, and rouge states? | Crossroads of radicalization and technology |
| How did the Toronto Globe and Mail describe the Bush Doctrine? | "A Monroe Doctrine for the entire planet" |
| How did The Observer describe the Bush Doctrine? | "US is now declaring in this document the ‘manifest destiny’ of Americas to exercise good across the world" |
| What is the acronym for remembering Jervis's four points of the Bush Doctrine? | ODUP |
| What does Jervis's ODUP stand for? | Opportunity (to change the world), Deterrence (now incompatible with threat), Unilateral (US happy to go it alone), Primacy (US must use its hegemonic status) |
| Which author wrote about the Bush Doctrine, and what was his article? | Jonathan Monton - The Roots of the Bush Doctrine |
| What does Monten say the Bush Doctrine is central to? | The US identity and national purpose |
| When was NSS 2002 released? | 17th September 2002 |
| What UN article did NSS 2002 draw on for self-defence? | UN Article 51 |
| What does NSS 2002 redefine? | Pre-emption |
| What is pre-emption? | Targeting threats before they are fully formed |
| Who wrote about pre-emption, and what was the article? | Lawrence Freedman - Prevention, Not Pre-Emption |
| What are the pros of the Bush Doctrine? | Swift response. Clinton response failed |
| What are the cons of the Bush Doctrine? | Sets precedent for others, Binary view |
| What numonic outlines what feeds into the Bush Doctrine? | WM-NUT |
| What does WM-NUT stand for? | Wilsonianism. Monroeism. Uni-Polarity. Neo-Conservatism. IT Threat |
| What is the Bush Doctrine? | Essentially NSS 2002 |
| What is the Monroe Doctrine? (3 points) | Stop European meddling in South America. Increasing US sphere of influence. Take over states guilty of Chronic Wongdoing |
| When was the Monroe Doctrine? | 1823 |
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