ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
SEMESTER ONE EXAMINATIONS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/10
IPM2230 FEAR, COOPERATION AND TRUST IN WORLD POLITICS
Time Allowed: Three Hours
Answer THREE questions from the list below
1. How important is uncertainty as a driver of security competition in world politics?
2. What do you understand by Franklin D. Roosevelt‟s claim that „The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself‟?
3. Was the Cold War a security dilemma?
4. How far did the Bush Administration apply an „inherent bad faith model‟ to the
motives and intentions of either Iran or North Korea?
5. “Because there is no entity to enforce cooperation, actors are disinclined to place
their trust in the hands of another, the indispensable basis of any cooperative
venture” (Craig 2003). Do you agree with this verdict on the possibilities of
international cooperation?
6. How far do you agree with Charles Osgood that a policy of Graduated and
Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension (GRIT) can replace a spiral of distrust with one
of trust?
7. What factors lead governments to initiate conciliatory moves and what factors
explain their success or failure? Illustrate your answer by reference to at least one
of the cases you have studied on the module.
8. How far does the continuing viability of the nuclear non-proliferation regime depend
upon overcoming the crisis of trust between the nuclear-weapons states and non-
nuclear weapons states?
9. “Getting all the signatory countries to comply would be an endless challenge - as
hard as getting them to even agree to a treaty in the first place” (Friedman 2006).
Critically assess this view on the prospects for international cooperation on climate
change.
10. How important is trust in the emergence and development of security communities?
