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Theory of international relations

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Janneke Hulst
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Question 1

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The 2008 financial crisis can be used to highight:
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  • The decreasing interconnectedness of internaional politics.
  • The irrelevance of the idea of globalization.
  • The idea that with globalization power increasingly is organised and exercised at a distance from those it affects.
  • the irrelevance of financial institutions in international politics.

Question 2

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Which of the following factors is not considered an 'engine' of globalization?
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  • Economics
  • Environment
  • Technics (technology)
  • Politics

Question 3

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Which key concept of global politics describes '… the rightful entitlement to exclusive, unqualified, and supreme rule within a delimited territory?'
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  • Sovereignty
  • The disaggregated strate
  • Independence
  • 'Might is right'

Question 4

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Which term best describes “the collective structures and processes by which ‘interests are articulated and aggregated, decisions are made, values allocated and policies conducted through international or transnational political processes”?
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  • Cosmopolitan
  • Global politics
  • Raison d'etat
  • Global polity

Question 5

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The Threaty of Westphalia was signed in:
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  • 1870
  • 1648
  • 1945
  • 1989

Question 6

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The central argument of the chapter is that globalization:
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  • Is uneven.
  • Veries in its intensity and extensity between different spheres of activity.
  • Reconstructs the world as a shared social space.
  • All of the above.

Question 7

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Globalization can be seen within the military sphere by:
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  • the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
  • the growth of transnational terrorism.
  • the growing significance of transnational military corporations.
  • all of the above.

Question 8

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The three pillars of the Westphalian Constitution of world politics are:
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  • life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  • territoriality, sovereignty, autonomy.
  • independence, autonomy, sovereignty.
  • sovereignty, territoriality, independence.

Question 9

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Political globalization involves webs of:
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  • non-state actors and corporations.
  • alliance politics.
  • civil society
  • multilateral institutions, policy networks, and transgovernmental cooperation.

Question 10

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What two terms best describe the transition to a post-Westphalian order of global politics?
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  • International relations to global politics
  • (State centric) geopolitics to (geocentric) global politics
  • Internationalization to globalization
  • Cold war to post-cold war

Question 11

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From which writer is the following line taken: "A society of states…exists when a group of states…form a society in the sense that they conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations with one another, and share in the working of common institutions."?
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  • Grotius
  • Hedly Bull
  • Machiavelli

Question 12

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Ancient Rome was formally divided into Eastern and Western parts in which year?
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  • 360 AD
  • 395 AD
  • 300 AD
  • 400 AD

Question 13

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Ancient Greek institutions that approximated international society include:
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  • amphyctionic Council
  • Arbitration
  • proxenia
  • all of the above

Question 14

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The term signifying natural and eternal laws is:
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  • dharma
  • just war
  • karma
  • the correct order of society

Question 15

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The ancient society to promulgate the idea of ius gentium (law of nations) is:
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  • China
  • India
  • Rome
  • Greece

Question 16

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Which movement, led by Martin Luther, helped to bring about a secular concept of the state?
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  • The respublica Christiana
  • The Counter Reformation
  • The Renaissance
  • The Protestant Reformation

Question 17

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What is the core value of international society?
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  • Political independence
  • Self-determination
  • Sovereign equality
  • Freedom

Question 18

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The statement "the king is emperor in his own kingdom' came from:
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  • Italy
  • England
  • France
  • Germany

Question 19

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What term best describes the dominance of a particular state in relation to all other states in the international system?
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  • Empire
  • Hegemon
  • Sovereign
  • Suzereign State

Question 20

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The theorist credited with examining the rights of indigenous peoples but also criticized for implicitly enabling sovereignty-based imperialism was:
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  • Machiavelli
  • Francisco de Vitoria
  • Vattel
  • Grotius

Question 21

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In which region did the cold war have its origins
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  • USSR
  • China
  • Europe
  • USA

Question 22

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What war began the era of modern total war?
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  • British colonial wars in Africa
  • The cold war
  • The First World War
  • The Second World War

Question 23

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What is the term used to describe the retreat from empire throughout most of Asia and Africa after 1945?
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  • Decolonization
  • 'Wind of change'
  • Retro-imperialism
  • Dénte

Question 24

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What key policy was associated with the Truman Doctrine?
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  • Rapprochement
  • Apartheid
  • Containment
  • Decolonization

Question 25

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What year was the NATO treaty signed?
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  • 1945
  • 1949
  • 1960
  • 1952

Question 26

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Khrushchev's policy towards the West was a mixture of seeking coexistence and sometimes pursuing:
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  • nuclear arms superiority
  • economic reforms
  • hegemony
  • confrontation

Question 27

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What was the term used to describe the re-establishment of more friendly relations between China and the US?
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  • Containment
  • Rapprochement
  • Dénte
  • 'Wind of change'

Question 28

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In what year did Cuban missile crisis take place?
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  • 1960
  • 1961
  • 1962
  • 1968

Question 29

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The First World War:
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  • was characterized by trench warfare and attrition.
  • began to end in November 1918 with allied advances.
  • mobilised whole European societies
  • All of the above

Question 30

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Which treaty in 1968 sought to limit the spread of nuclear weapons?
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  • SALT 1
  • Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
  • ABM Treaty
  • START 1

Question 31

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Which author of the choices below is known for describing the paradox of American Power?
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  • President George H. W: Bush
  • Kenneth Waltz
  • Samual Huntington
  • Cristopher Layne

Question 32

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What term best describes the balance of power in the post-cold war era?
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  • Unipolar
  • Bipolar
  • Multipolar
  • Semi-polar

Question 33

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The election of Barack Obama in 2008 occurred during:
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  • a time of heightened prosperity for the USA
  • a technological revolution.
  • a time of peace in the Middle East.
  • the worst financial crisis faced by the USA since the 1930s.

Question 34

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The European Security and Defence Policy began in which year?
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  • 1998
  • 1965
  • 1992
  • 1999

Question 35

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The United States chose to go to war in Iraq because:
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  • of the key role played by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
  • Iraq posed a genuine threat to the security of the USA post 9/11
  • the USA was determined to secure control of the regions oil fields.
  • all of the above options are competing explanations behind the USA’s decision to go to war in Iraq.

Question 36

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Who was Yeltsin’s successor in post-communist Russia?
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  • Gorbachev
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Dmitri Trenin
  • All of the above

Question 37

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Who termed the US a 'hyperpower'?
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  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Hubert Vedrine
  • Josef Joffe
  • Jacques Chirac

Question 38

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September 11th was foreshadowed by:
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  • the attempted destruction of the World Trade Center (1993).
  • the bombing of US embassies in Africa (1998
  • the bombing of the USS Cole (2000).
  • all of the above

Question 39

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What word is contentiously used to describe the post-9/11 brand of US foreign policy?
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  • Turbo-charged capitalism
  • Multilateralism
  • Neo-liberalism
  • Empire

Question 40

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What regional organization emerged in East Asia in 1967?
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  • ASEAN
  • NATO
  • The UN
  • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

Question 41

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Is the European Union itself a member of UN Security Council or the G20?
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  • Yes, both
  • Only in the UN Security Council
  • Only in the G20
  • No, in neither

Question 42

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We often hear of the Third World (although it is a contested term). But what is the Second World?
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  • The Western hemisphere, with particular reference to the United States (i.e., the term is interchangeable with the “new” world).
  • The Soviet Union and its allies
  • Eastern Asia (particularly Japan and China)
  • All of the above depending on context

Question 43

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What is “institutional power”?
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  • The relative power of organisations or groups of countries (ASEAN, the EU, BRICs etc.)
  • The ability to control the agenda, to decide what gets decided, and to exclude those issues which threaten the interests of the most powerful.
  • Bureaucratic “heft”, that can hinder or help political leaders realise policy ambitions.
  • Indirect use of international organisations and pressure groups to further a desired agenda

Question 44

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The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 has been presented as an example of the changing institutional context. How?
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  • The financial crisis weakened Europe’s bargaining position
  • The BASIC countries acted in concert to push a common agenda.
  • China successfully used soft power to push its agenda.
  • Anti-globalisation organisations were made formal partners in the negotiation structure.

Question 45

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Which of the following is an example of institutions that were created at the end of WW2 (and based on the power situation of that era)?
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  • The IMF
  • ASEAN
  • The World Social Forum
  • The G5
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