Quiz 1 Flashcards
True or False ‘Globalists’ believe that globalization is a primary source of disruptive change in world politics.
True
True or False Realist sceptics of globalization believe that globalization (or more accurately, 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.
True
According to the textbook, globalization…….
A) is not experienced uniformly across the world.
B) is indicative of an unfolding structural change in the scale of human social and economic organization
C) is associated with the process of deterritorialization: as social, political, or economic activities are organized at the global or transnational levels, they are effectively detached from their place or locale.
D) All of the options given are correct.
D
Fill in the blank with the correct option.
Contemporary globalization is associated intimately with the revolutions in …….
A) Transport B) Communications technologies
C) transport and communication technologies. D) Labour
C
Which of the following factors is not considered an ‘engine’ of globalization?
A) Environment B) Politics C)Technics D) Economics
A
True or False Globally, the dominant form of populism today is that of the left.
False
How did industrialization contribute to the ‘great divergence’?
A) It helped to produce a dramatic expansion of the world market, which brought new opportunities for accumulating power
B) Industrialization in the West was accompanied by deindustrialization elsewhere.
C) It encouraged the British to adopt tariffs and other protectionist trade policies that promoted British goods while discriminating against those produced in India
D) All of the options given are correct
D
Rational state’ refers to…
A) the ways in which states become organized less through interpersonal relations and family ties, and more by abstract bureaucracies such as a civil service and a nationally organized military.
B) the assumption that states are self-interested actors.
C) the adoption of a democratic form of governance.
D) All of the options given are correct.
A
What was the ‘great divergence’?
A) The split between parts of the world that promoted regional order and parts of the world that sought more truly international order
B) The global power disparity that emerged between East and West during the nineteenth century
C) The stark difference in the speed of communications between the pre-industrial and industrial eras
D) None of the options given are correct.
B
What caused China’s decline during the nineteenth century?
A) Its economic crippling under British imperialism
B) Domestic political instability
C) A series of unequal treaties following its losses in wars with Western powers
D) All of the options given are correct.
D
Which of the following is not among the some of the key features of the modern international order?
A) The rise of the nation-state
B) The emergence of Multipolar world
C) The development of international law
D) Growing interconnectedness of the world.
B
True or False Newly independent countries that had formerly been colonized were unaffected by the cold war, which mainly involved the global superpowers.
A) True B) False
B) False
) What war began the era of modern total war?
A) British colonial wars in Africa
B) The cold war
C) The First World War
D) The Second World War
C
What key policy was associated with the Truman Doctrine?
A) Rapprochement
B) Apartheid
C) Containment
D) Decolonization
C
The United States entered the First World War in Europe because of….
A) its commitments to collective security as a member of the League of Nations.
B) the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
C) the popular solidarity felt by the American people towards the people of Western Europe.
D) All of the given options are correct.
D
Various factors influenced decolonization except…
A) The attitude of the colonial power
B) The ideology and strategy of anti-imperialist forces
C) The role of external powers
D) Population size of the colonized country.
D
