Why Do Alliances Form

question 19

Multiple Choice

Why do alliances form?

• A)Powerful countries force weaker countries to join their organizations.
• B)The citizens of member states push for closer relations with other similar states.
• C)An alliance makes members less likely to attack each other.
• D)Two or more states have a common security goal and need more military support than one of them has alone.

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Definitions:

Goods

Physical items that are produced and consumed by individuals or businesses to satisfy needs or wants.

Marginal Rate

The rate at which one variable changes relative to a change in another variable, often used in the context of marginal tax rates or marginal rates of substitution.

Convex Preferences

A preference structure where the consumer prefers mixed bundles of goods to extreme bundles, represented graphically by a bowed-inward indifference curve.

Monotonic Preferences

A preference pattern where more of a good is always preferred to less, maintaining a consistent order.