Choose the correct word/phrase for blank 14.

Direction: The following paragraph has blank spaces marked from 12 to 16. For each blank, three
words/phrase, marked  as (a), (b), and (c) have been given below. 

It hasn’t worked ___(12)___ that way. Indeed, the gaps between theory and reality are so numerous that they ___(13)___ questions about how much, if at all, the theory will work in the future. Americans projected their own experience onto the rest of the world. If prosperity and material progress had created political cohesion at home—binding together a large and ___(14)___ nation—it could do the same abroad. But this marriage between economics and politics may be losing its power. What seemed to be the ascendancy of American ideas camouflaged new problems and conflicts. The theory may have been ___(15)___ suited to the cold war than its aftermath. The most ___(16)___ problem, of course, involves the outbreak of terrorism.