MCQs of International Relations - The Globalization of International Relations – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 32

1. Question

Which of these core principles provides incentives for mutual cooperation?

reciprocity
dominance
identity
polity

Question 2 of 32

2. Question

Which level of analysis considers the interactions of states themselves without regard to their internal makeup or the particular leaders who lead them?

interstate
individual
global
national

Question 3 of 32

3. Question

The Cold War began:

immediately before World War I
immediately after the Korean War
immediately after World War I
immediately after World War II
immediately before World War II

Question 4 of 32

4. Question

In international relations, the principle of _______ underlies the great power system

identity
co-operation
dominance
reciprocity

Question 5 of 32

5. Question

In 1962, the United States and the USSR almost went to war over the issue of Soviet nuclear weapons in

North Korea
Poland
East Germany
Cuba

Question 6 of 32

6. Question

The “Sino-Soviet split” involved relationship between the Soviet Union and:

United States
Japan
China
Great Britain

Question 7 of 32

7. Question

Which country occupied Germany after World War II?

France
Soviet Union
United States
All these countries occupied Germany after World War II: the United States, the Soviet Union, & France

Question 8 of 32

8. Question

Which of the following is NOT an example of an Intergovernmental Organization (IGO)?

Amnesty International
NATO
the World Trade Organization
OPEC

Question 9 of 32

9. Question

The foreign policy adopted by the United States in the early years of the Cold War to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union was known as:

the Marshall Plan
containment
mutual assured destruction
peaceful coexistence

Question 10 of 32

10. Question

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall:

were crises during the post-Cold War
were crises that ted to World War II
were crises that followed the Vietnam War
were crises during the Cold

Question 11 of 32

11. Question

The term “banana republic” refers to the relationship between poorer states and

MNCs
NGOs.
IGOs
substate actors

Question 12 of 32

12. Question

Which of these is NOT associated with the “collective goods problem” in IR?

tragedy of the commons
collective action
free riding
hegemony

Question 13 of 32

13. Question

NATO’s first-ever military engagement occurred in 1995 in:

Bosnia
Croatia
Serbia
Czechoslovakia

Question 14 of 32

14. Question

Which of these core principles might involve demonizing an out-group?

dominance
reciprocity
identity
favoritism

Question 15 of 32

15. Question

In __________ in 1994, the genocide of more than half a million civilians in a matter of weeks was virtually ignored by the international community

Macedonia
Bosnia
Iraq
Rwanda

Question 16 of 32

16. Question

Which of these regions is NOT part of the larger global region known as the global North?

North America
Western Europe
the Middle East
Japan

Question 17 of 32

17. Question

Which of these counties experienced a “Cultural Revolution” during the Cold War?

China
Japan
Great Britain
the United States
the Soviet Union

Question 18 of 32

18. Question

How did the Korean War affect the overall Cold War?

It cemented communist military control over Southeast Asia
It sparked a thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and china
It hardened overall American attitudes toward communism
It sparked a thaw in relations between China and the United States

Question 19 of 32

19. Question

The Unites States backed the Ethiopian government in its conflict with Somalia in the 1970s as part of:

an attempt to secure its natural reaources
an attempt to support the new Soviet policy of glasnost
an attempt to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining a seaport in the Horn of Africa
a proxy war with the Soviet Union

Question 20 of 32

20. Question

The Soviet policy of perestroika pursued:

containment of American military power
economic reform
support of developing world communist revolutions
detente with China

Question 21 of 32

21. Question

what development wrecked France’s dream of leading a unified European foreign policy?

Eastern Europe's stated desire to remain politically close to Russia
The division between Eastern and Western Europe over expanding membership in NATO
Eastern Europe's support of the U.S decision to invade Iraq in 2003
Western Europe's rejection of high agricultural subsidies in international world trade negutiations

Question 22 of 32

22. Question

The Berlin Wall separated:

Poland from East Germany
the Soviet Union from East Germany
West Germany from the Soviet Union
West Berlin from East Berlin

Question 23 of 32

23. Question

Globalization involves:

a stretching of social, political, and economic activities across political frontiers.
a growing magnitude of interconnections in almost every sphere of social existence
an accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global
all of the above

Question 24 of 32

24. Question

In the first wave, the age of discovery (1450-1850), globalization was:

a benign form of cosmopolitan democracy.
equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest
saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Question 25 of 32

25. Question

Asymmetrical globalization is:

the way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social gruops
the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups
the degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes
a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries.

Question 26 of 32

26. Question

The second wave (1850-1945):

defined a new age in world history so today the microchip and the satellite are icons of a globalized world order
evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires
saw the expansion of transnational and international law from trade to human rights
saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Question 27 of 32

27. Question

The disaggregated state:

is the complex which bring together the representatives of governments, international organizations, NGOs, and the corporate sector for the formulation and implementation of global public policy
is the formal and informal mechanism which link government officials in one agency with their foreign counterparts for purposes of policy coordination, harmonization, dialog and enforcement
is he tendency for stats to become increasingly fragmented actors in global politics as every part of the government machine becomes entangled with its foreign counterparts and others in dealing proliferating transgovernmental and global policy networks
is the rightful entitlement to exclusive, unqualified and supreme rule within a delimited territory

Question 28 of 32

28. Question

Sceptical accounts of globalization dismiss its significance because they argue:

by comparison with the period 1870 to 1914 the world is much less globalized economically, politically and culturally
the vast bulk of international economic and political activity is concentrated within the group of OECD states
globalization is at best a self-serving myth or ideology which reinforces western and particularly US hegemony in world politics.
all of the above

Question 29 of 32

29. Question

State autonomy is challenged in the post-Westphalian’ order because:

countries appear as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere from the world outside
by comparison with the heyday of European global empires the majority of the world's population and countries in the South are now much less integrated into the global system
in a more interdependent world, simply to achieve domestic objectives national government are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation
stare power, nationalism and territorial boundaries are of growing not less importance in world politics.

Question 30 of 32

30. Question

Time-space compression is:

capitalism's insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity.
a shared ecology involving shared en environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance.
central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy not be possible.
the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking.

Question 31 of 32

31. Question

The international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour.

was a result of countries appearing as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere form the world outside.
represents a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries.
involves a complex mix of homogenization and increased heterogeneity given the global diffusion of popular culture, global media corporations, and communications networks.
was the product of a complex politics involving public and private actors form trade unions, industrial associations, humanitarian groups, governments, and legal experts.

Question 32 of 32

32. Question

The ‘Post-Westphalian Order’ is characterized by:

the sovereign power and authority of national government - the entitlement of states to rule within their own territorial space - being transformed but not necessarily eroded.
a real dilemma: in return for more effective public policy and meeting their citizens demands, whether in relation to the drugs trade or employment, their capacity for self-governance - that is sate autonomy - is compromised.
a new geography of political organization and political power is emerging, which transcends territories and borders.
all of the above

MCQs of International Relations – The Globalization of International Relations

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