Quiz 1 (09/15/2023)

Question 1

‘Globalists’ believe that globalization is a primary source of disruptive change in world politics

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Realists sceptics of globalization believe that globalization (or more accurate, internationalization) is a product of hegemonic power and does not alter the basic structures of world politics, nor the centrality of states and state power to national security and survival

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to the textbook, globalization…

Answer 3

All options are correct.

Question 4

Fill in the blank with the correct option.
Contemporary globalization is associated intimately with the revolutions in…

Answer 4

Transport and communication technologies

Question 5

Which of the following factors is NOT considered an ‘engine’ of globalization is associated intimately with the revolutions in…

Answer 5

Environment

Question 6

Globally, the dominant form of populism today is that of the left

Answer 6

True

Question 7

How did industrialization contribute to the ‘great divergence’?

Answer 7

All of the options are correct.

Question 8

Rational state refers to…

Answer 8

the ways in which states become organized less through interpersonal relations and family ties, and more by abstract bureaucracies such as civil service and a nationally organized military.

Question 9

What was the ‘great divergence’?

Answer 9

The global power disparity between the West and East during the 19th century.

Question 10

What caused China’s decline during the 19th century?

Answer 10

All of the options given are correct.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT among the some of they key features of the modern international order?

Answer 11

The emergence of Multipolar world.

Question 12

Newly independent countries that had formerly been colonized were unaffected by the Cold War, which mainly involved the global superpowers.

Answer 12

False.

Question 13

According to this chapter, British withdrawal from empire was more peaceful than that of other colonial powers, with the major and significant exceptions of India and conflicts in Kenya and Malaya

Answer 13

True.

Question 14

What war began the era of modern total war?

Answer 14

The First World War.

Question 15

What key policy was associated with the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 15

Containment.

Question 16

The United States entered the First World War in Europe because of…

Answer 16

The popular solidarity the American people felt towards the people of Western Europe.

Question 17

Various factors influenced decolonization except…

Answer 17

Population size of the colonized country.

Question 18

The use of ‘cold’ in the term ‘Cold War’ refers to the lack of war in Asia from 1945 to 1989

Answer 18

False.

Question 19

All of the following are reasons why some oppose the use of the the term “the new Cold War” to describe contemporary relations between Russia and the West, except…

Answer 19

All the options given are correct.

Question 20

What term best describes the balance of power in the immediate post-Cold War era?

Answer 20

Unipolar.

Question 21

Since 2008, Russia has intervened militarily in which of the following countries?

Answer 21

Georgia.

Question 22

Which of the following challenged optimistic views about whether China’s economic rise will remain ‘peaceful’?

Answer 22

All of the options given are correct.

Question 23

The financial crisis that hit the advanced capitalist core in 2007 supported predictions about the future importance of the BRICS because the crisis

Answer 23

Reinforced the view that international economic institutions had to be reformed to reflect shifting economic power.

Question 24

In the 1990’s global order was widely understood through the lens of neorealism

Answer 24

False.

Question 25

In the 1990’s, proponents of which approach to International Relations believed that as large developing states joined international institutions they would gradually became socialized into a Western-led global order?

Answer 25

Liberalism.

Question 26

Which of the following is an example of the institutions that were created at the end of the Second World War (and based on the power situation of that era)?

Answer 26

The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Question 27

Those who stress the importance of the BRICS as a diplomatic grouping point to all of the following developments as evidence, except…

Answer 27

ASEAN

Question 28

Immanuel Kant was an early claimant that liberal states are pacific in their international relations with other liberal states.

Answer 28

True.

Question 29

The UN’s response to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 2 August 1990 has been used as an example of collective security

Answer 29

True.

Question 30

___________ was a social reformer domestically and an imperialist internationally.

Answer 30

J.S. Mill

Question 31

According to Kant, which of the following is not required to achieve perpetual peace?

Answer 31

Extensive economic ties.

Question 32

What was the primary organ of the idealist inter-war order?

Answer 32

The League of Nations

Question 33

Which concept supposes that liberal states will not go to war with one another?

Answer 33

Democratic Peace Theory.

Question 34

In “The End of History?” (1989),…famously celebrated the triumph of liberalism over all other ideologies, but his argument now appears deeply flawed

Answer 34

Francis Fukuyama.

Question 35

U.S. President _______ advocated for the creation of a League of Nations regulate international anarchy through collective security

Answer 35

Woodrow Wilson.

Question 36

Which of the following is NOT currently offered as evidence of the demise of liberal internationalism

Answer 36

The increasing power of the EU relative to the United States.

Question 37

A key element of Marxist thought is the non-material conception of history

Answer 37

False.

Question 38

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels famously argued that ‘the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of…

Answer 38

Class Struggle.

Question 39

The main body of critical theory emerged from which school of thought?

Answer 39

The Frankfurt School