Task 8. Fill in the gaps with prepositions and adverbs where necessary

Globalization had a second and more direct effect: reduction ____ vulnerability

_______ diversification _____ suppliers and markets. The application _____ economic leverage and sanctions unilaterally became more difficult, even when the initiator, the United States, was the largest economy ____ the world. Although the United States has failed to give _____ its infatuation _____ economic sanctions, their effectiveness has declined _______ the absence of multilateral support, mirroring a decline ____ economic vulnerability ________ the part of other states. ______ addition, economic liberalization has meant that all governments have given _____ some of their leverage _____ private economic agents, reducing the effectiveness of economic instruments _______their statecraft.

Finally, some ____ the states in the Asia-Pacific region began to accept that economic interdependence and integration might be promoted _______ _____ its positive security effects. Few states in the region endorsed the classical liberal view that growing economic integration would necessarily produce _________ peaceful international outcomes.

Nevertheless, several _____ the smaller and more economically dynamic countries

_____ the region – South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore – adopted strategies that

deployed economic interdependence to advance their security goals ________ relation _____ larger or militarily threatening neighbors. ____ first, their strategies pointed ____ explicit linkage, _____ which economic benefits were part of bargains to produce specific diplomatic outcomes. South Korea’s Nordpolitik with the Soviet Union and then China was one successful example _____ such an exploitation of growing economic ties. As their neighbors also opened _____ the world economy, however, the ability to impose linkage declined and _____ some cases, such as those of Taiwan and China, could be reversed.

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