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Unit 3: Global actors
Quick questions on National interests in global politics: VCE Politics
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What is security?Show answer
Security is usually the highest priority because survival comes first. It includes protecting the population, territory and sovereignty of the state from external threats, and increasingly from non-traditional threats such as terrorism, cyber attack, pandemics and climate change.
What are the pursuit of values?Show answer
States also seek to promote the values and ideology they hold, such as democracy, human rights, religion or a particular model of governance. Spreading values can be an end in itself and a way to build a favourable international environment.
What is q1?Show answer
Define national interests and identify the three categories. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain how a named state pursues its economic interest, using one example. [6 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse the extent to which security takes priority over values in a state's national interests. [10 marks]
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