Quiz 2 (10/20/2023)

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT part of this chapter’s definition of war?

Answer 1

War is seen by political and military leaders as an end goal.

Question 2

Contemporary civil wars are fought within the territory of a sovereign state, and do not involve international actors such as the UN, humanitarian organizations, or foreign states.

Answer 2

FALSE

Question 3

In the realist view, what is the primary actor in international relations?

Answer 3

The states

Question 4

Which branch of international relations theory allows for more cooperation between states when it comes to security?

Answer 4

Liberal Institutionalism

Question 5

Clausewitz is known for each of the following concepts except…

Answer 5

International v. Imperial war

Question 6

Which two approaches operate largely within the same framework with regards to national security?

Answer 6

Constructivism and Liberal Institutionalism

Question 7

…in his 1959 book, Man, the State, and War, classified theories of the causes of war into three categories, or levels of analysis. Waltz refers to these levels of analysis as “images”

Answer 7

Kenneth Waltz

Question 8

____ consists of a disagreement or a conflict of interest, between states that causes one or both relevant parties to consider the use of force

Answer 8

Immediate causes of war

Question 9

The Bretton Woods system was originally designed to prevent another Great Depression and advance the economic interests of the United States.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

The explosive growth in levels of global inequality has been driven primarily by a dramatic acceleration of wealth accumulation rather than a worsening of poverty.

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

The ‘realist’ tradition of IPE focuses on the ability of institutions to foster trade on the open global market.

Answer 11

FALSE

Question 12

Followers of Antonio Gramsci advance the core Marxist concern with the power structures that underpin capitalism, but also place more emphasis on the ‘ideology’ or sets of ideas that themselves form a part of the structure of the global political economy.

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

What international institution was NOT part of the Bretton Woods system at its inception?

Answer 13

The United Nations

Question 14

According to this chapter, child labor…

Answer 14

has many root causes, including inadequate government legislation and multidimensional poverty.

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the globalization of production?

Answer 15

Women workers have been pushed out of the labor force, as it has become strongly
‘masculinized’

Question 16

What are the three main explanations for why civil wars occur?

Answer 16

Greed-Based, Grievance-Based, and Opportunity-Based

Question 17

According to the lecture, what does the Greed-Based explanation for civil wars suggest?

Answer 17

Individuals and groups start conflicts to make money or gain economic advantages.

Question 18

According to the Grievance-Based explanation for civil wars, what is a significant factor contributing to these conflicts?

Answer 18

Socio-economic or political injustices like inequality and discrimination.

Question 19

According to the Opportunity-Based explanation, which of the following options makes civil wars more likely to occur?

Answer 19

Existence of a weak government

Question 20

If a civil war is primarily driven by socio-economic or political injustices, which explanation does it align with?

Answer 20

Grievance-based

Question 21

The broadly adopted neoliberal approach that advocates the roll-back of the state, he deregulation of the economy, and the maintenance of fiscal discipline, came to be known as…

Answer 21

The Washington Consensus

Question 22

IPE’s rich thematic interests are generally considered to center on the trio of…

Answer 22

Trade, production, finance

Question 23

According to this chapter, the future of globalization might include any of the following except…

Answer 23

A reaffirmation of a US-dominated global economic order by countries like China and India

Question 24

Underdevelopment theory argued that it was not possible for all less developed countries to ‘catch up’ to the advanced West because of the lasting effects of colonialism and because in a capitalist system, development depends on underdevelopment.

Answer 24

TRUE

Question 25

All scholars of gender are feminists.

Answer 25

FALSE

Question 26

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, a policy rescinded by the US military in 2011, is an example of a restriction on the participation of individuals with LGBTQI identities in the military.

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

Sex refers to the social codes that express masculinity and femininity, while gender refers to the biological characteristics (primarily genital and reproductive.)

Answer 27

FALSE

Question 28

Comparative research suggests that Britain’s former colonies are more likely to criminalize homosexuality today than the ex-colonies of other powers, indicating that the analysis of which ‘cultures’ are homophobic is inseparable from an understanding of international patterns of dominance and resistance in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

Gendered assumptions about which civilians were most likely to be killed resulted in the evacuation by humanitarian agencies of women and children from Srebrenica during the 1992-5 Bosnian War, leaving behind men and teenage boys, some 8,000 of whom were slaughtered.

Answer 29

TRUE

Question 30

The term that describes how particular groups of women experience simultaneous and cross-cutting oppressions that exceed gender is…

Answer 30

Intersectionality

Question 31

Masculinity and femininity are ___ concepts.

Answer 31

Relational

Question 32

Globalization and trade liberalization have….

Answer 32

Both empowered women who have entered the formal economy and made women more
vulnerable due to the mobility of global investment flows

Question 33

In what sense are the mechanisms of border passage gendered?

Answer 33

Travelers must display a passport, and most states require individuals to state that they are
either male or female on official forms; this presents challenges for non-binary and trans
individuals.

Question 34

The ‘reproductive economy’ is best defined as…

Answer 34

largely non-monetary economy that coexists with the productive economy, and which
includes a range of domestic and care work in addition to childbirth and parenting.

Question 35

In the early years of the formation of the field of International Relations, race was discussed as a mainstream and not marginal issue.

Answer 35

TRUE

Question 36

Which of the following is not true of ‘racialization’?

Answer 36

‘Racialization’ refers to biological or natural underpinnings of racial distinctions

Question 37

The biological calculus of race came out of a theological debate over the humanity of non-Catholic peoples.

Answer 37

FALSE

Question 38

Which phrase is used by theorists of race to refer to structural conditions that uphold white normativity?

Answer 38

White supremacy

Question 39

Francis Galton, the originator of eugenics, argued that

Answer 39

Reproduction should be scientifically controlled because ‘defects’ such as a lack of
intelligence are inherited

Question 40

Who controversially argued that Islamic politics could only pursue ‘a perpetual state of war until the entire world either embraced Islam or submitted to the rule of the Muslim state’?

Answer 40

Bernard Lewis

Question 41

International institutions can exist without an organizational dimension, but international organizations cannot exist without an institutional framework.

Answer 41

TRUE

Question 42

Which term refers to the laws governing the conduct of war once launched?

Answer 42

Jus in bello

Question 43

The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is a good example of a/an ____ institution.

Answer 43

Issue-specific

Question 44

Institutions such as the principle of sovereignty, which compromise the primary rules and norms of international society without which the world of independent states could not exist, are described as ___ institutions.

Answer 44

Constitutional

Question 45

The kings and queens who ruled European states before the 19th century saw humanity in general, including monarchs, as being subject to ______

Answer 45

Gods law and to natural law