Global Politics

Question 1

Who: State

Compulsory political organization

Answer 1

Weber

Question 2

Who: State

Independent political communities

Answer 2

Bull

Question 3

Who: Nation

“An imagined political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”

Answer 3

Anderson (1991)

Question 4

Who: Nation-States

“Membership associations with a collective identity and a
democratic pretension to rule”

Answer 4

Joppke (1998)

Question 5

Golden Straightjacket and Electronic Herd are both coined by?

Answer 5

Thomas Friedman

Question 6

Describes how states are now forced into policies that
suit the preferences of investment houses and corporate executives

Answer 6

Golden Straightjacket

Question 7

• Grown exponentially due to the democratization of finance, technology and information
• Moves money swiftly

Answer 7

Electronic Herd

Question 8

• Created the conditions for deregulation, privatization, free trade to spread around the world
• Prompted the world’s poorer states to orient their production and attract world’s wealthiest banks, corporations and investors

Answer 8

Laissez-faire economics

Question 9

According to Rafael Barajas Duran

The main impact of globalization is ___

Answer 9

Exploitation

Question 10

• Has 27 member states (in July 2013, Croatia became a member as 28th state)
• Have a single monetary currency among 17
  member states

Answer 10

European Union (EU)

Question 11

• A common citizenship
• Affords citizens of the member states the rights to live, work, vote, and even run for office in European parliamentary elections outside their native member state

Answer 11

Maastricht Treaty (1992)

Question 12

• The top dispute resolution body for the EU and its predecessors
• Has set provisions such as ‘direct effect’ and ‘supremacy’

Answer 12

European Court of Justice (ECJ) - 1952

Question 13

• It resolves two sets of laws that came into conflict that must follow the EU law
• Had been forced by a lot of states to follow their own laws to fit supranational norms

Answer 13

European Court of Justice (ECJ) - 1952

Question 14

• Part of a larger organization which is Council of Europe
• Issued landmark decisions in areas such as freedom of religion, protection from discrimination, and the right to a fair trial

Answer 14

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

Question 15

• Upholds the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)
• Has 47 member states, 28 of which are members of the EU

Answer 15

Council of Europe

Question 16

• Served as the first female Prime Minister of UK from 1979 to 1990
• Britain’s Conservative Party forced her out of office as PM after an internal row over Europe

Answer 16

MARGARET THATCHER (The Iron Lady)

Question 17

• Has shown early stages of European integration
• Provided the member states with a crucial vehicle to rehabilitate themselves and liquidation of their empires abroad during post-World War II

Answer 17

ALAN MILWARD (Historian)

Question 18

• Peace settlement or treaty where a number of countries were confirmed in their sovereignty (power or authority) over territories
• After World War II, there was a turn away from the model of state sovereignty

Answer 18

Peace of Westphalia (1648)

Question 19

• Failure of the League of Nations strengthened collective will to start a new international organization
• Set up in the summer and autumn of 1945 in the San Francisco Conference

Answer 19

United Nations (1945)

Question 20

• ad hoc tribunals (court of justice)
• To prosecute individuals accused of genocide (massacre) and other crimes against humanity

Answer 20

International Criminal Court (2002)

Question 21

• Resulted from a consensus made by the Security Council
• A global political commitment to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity

Answer 21

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine

Question 22

A horizontal linkage among national governments where they share information, agree to common standards and work side by side in different areas

Answer 22

Transgovernmental Networks (TGNs)