Chapter 11

Question 1

01) Post-structuralism takes which view of identity and foreign policy?
a. Performative
b. Performative and constitutive
c. Rationalist
d. Constitutive

Answer 1

b. Performative and constitutive

Question 2

02) What are the central concepts in post-structuralist philosophy?
a. Discourse, deconstruction, genealogy, intertextuality
b. Rational economics.
c. Institutions and co-operation.
d. Discourse, deconstruction, intertextuality

Answer 2

a. Discourse, deconstruction, genealogy, intertextuality

Question 3

03) Language is central to post-structuralist theory of international relations because:
a. Post-structuralism focuses on local dialects.
b. Language decides, and communicates, what individuals say while also being the
medium through which all political actors must legitimate the foreign policies they adopt.
c. Language solely defines individuals.
d. Language is the same as discourse.

Answer 3

b. Language decides, and communicates, what individuals say while also being the
medium through which all political actors must legitimate the foreign policies they adopt.

Question 4

04) Post-structuralism views language as
a. Entirely value-neutral.
b. A system of unstable dichotomies where certain terms are superior to others.
c. Irrelevant to politics
d. A system of stable dichotomies

Answer 4

b. A system of unstable dichotomies where certain terms are superior to others.

Question 5

05) According to post-structuralist theory, what is t ?
a. A historical concept
b. A value-neutral concept with an immortal essence.
c. A political principle and a particular way of organising identity and authority.
d. The most important political actor in an anarchic world system.

Answer 5

c. A political principle and a particular way of organising identity and authority.

Question 6

06) With regard to -structuralist theory:
a. Naturalises the state.
b. Adopts exactly the same view of the state as Realism
c. Is wholly unconcerned with the state as a concept
d. Does not naturalise the state but instead seeks to analyse how practices produce the state which is a political, historically contextualised concept.

Answer 6

d. Does not naturalise the state but instead seeks to analyse how practices produce the state which is a political, historically contextualised concept.

Question 7

07) According to post-structuralism, foreign policies:
a. Create and recreate identity of them selfs and others
b. Should be based solely on self-interest
c. Are unimportant to international politics
d. Will revolve around the importance of human rights.

Answer 7

a. Create and recreate identity of them selfs and others

Question 8

08) According to the post-structuralist scholar Judith Butler, identity:
a. Is irrelevant
b. Is central to showing how foreign policy will be formed.
c. Is performative and can only be constituted through repeated practices.
d. Is static and independent of practices and surroundings.

Answer 8

c. Is performative and can only be constituted through repeated practices.

Question 9

09) The global according to post -structuralism, is:
a. A political category which can be used to replace the state
b. Of no concern to international politics.
c. The most important political category in international politics.
d. Not a political category and cannot therefore be used to replace the state

Answer 9

d. Not a political category and cannot therefore be used to replace the state

Question 10

10) The events of 9/11 and the subsequent so-called war on terror
a.Made the post-structuralist concept of territoriality redundant.
b. Challenged the post-structuralist concept of territoriality but not made them entirely
redundant.
c. In some ways shown the concept of territoriality to be redundant but in other ways illustrated the return of the concept of territoriality
d. Made the concept of territoriality more flexible and in some ways precipitated a return of the concept but has also challenged the post-structuralist conception of the
term.

Answer 10

d. Made the concept of territoriality more flexible and in some ways precipitated a return of the concept but has also challenged the post-structuralist conception of the
term.

Question 11

11) Post-structuralism entered the field of international politics in the 1980s.
a. True
b. False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

2) Post-structuralism makes a distinction between Foreign Policy and foreign policy.
a. True
b. False

Answer 12

True

Question 13

) Judith Butler is a realist scholar.

a. True
b. False

Answer 13

False

Question 14

14) State sovereignty, power and security are three central concepts of poststructuralism
a. True
b. False

Answer 14

False

Question 15

15) Post-structuralism as a theory of international politics is based upon the four
concepts of post-structuralist philosophy.
a. True
b. False

Answer 15

True