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Theory of international relations

Frage 1 von 45

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The 2008 financial crisis can be used to highight:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The decreasing interconnectedness of internaional politics.

  • The irrelevance of the idea of globalization.

  • The idea that with globalization power increasingly is organised and exercised at a distance from those it affects.

  • the irrelevance of financial institutions in international politics.

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Frage 2 von 45

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Which of the following factors is not considered an 'engine' of globalization?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Economics

  • Environment

  • Technics (technology)

  • Politics

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Frage 3 von 45

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Which key concept of global politics describes '… the rightful entitlement to exclusive, unqualified, and supreme rule within a delimited territory?'

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Sovereignty

  • The disaggregated strate

  • Independence

  • 'Might is right'

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Frage 4 von 45

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Which term best describes “the collective structures and processes by which ‘interests are articulated and aggregated, decisions are made, values allocated and policies conducted through international or transnational political processes”?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cosmopolitan

  • Global politics

  • Raison d'etat

  • Global polity

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Frage 5 von 45

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The Threaty of Westphalia was signed in:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1870

  • 1648

  • 1945

  • 1989

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Frage 6 von 45

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The central argument of the chapter is that globalization:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Is uneven.

  • Veries in its intensity and extensity between different spheres of activity.

  • Reconstructs the world as a shared social space.

  • All of the above.

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Frage 7 von 45

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Globalization can be seen within the military sphere by:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  • the growth of transnational terrorism.

  • the growing significance of transnational military corporations.

  • all of the above.

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Frage 8 von 45

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The three pillars of the Westphalian Constitution of world politics are:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  • territoriality, sovereignty, autonomy.

  • independence, autonomy, sovereignty.

  • sovereignty, territoriality, independence.

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Frage 9 von 45

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Political globalization involves webs of:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • non-state actors and corporations.

  • alliance politics.

  • civil society

  • multilateral institutions, policy networks, and transgovernmental cooperation.

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Frage 10 von 45

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What two terms best describe the transition to a post-Westphalian order of global politics?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • International relations to global politics

  • (State centric) geopolitics to (geocentric) global politics

  • Internationalization to globalization

  • Cold war to post-cold war

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Frage 11 von 45

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From which writer is the following line taken: "A society of states…exists when a group of states…form a society in the sense that they conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations with one another, and share in the working of common institutions."?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Grotius

  • Hedly Bull

  • Machiavelli

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Frage 12 von 45

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Ancient Rome was formally divided into Eastern and Western parts in which year?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 360 AD

  • 395 AD

  • 300 AD

  • 400 AD

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Frage 13 von 45

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Ancient Greek institutions that approximated international society include:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • amphyctionic Council

  • Arbitration

  • proxenia

  • all of the above

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Frage 14 von 45

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The term signifying natural and eternal laws is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • dharma

  • just war

  • karma

  • the correct order of society

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The ancient society to promulgate the idea of ius gentium (law of nations) is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • China

  • India

  • Rome

  • Greece

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Frage 16 von 45

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Which movement, led by Martin Luther, helped to bring about a secular concept of the state?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The respublica Christiana

  • The Counter Reformation

  • The Renaissance

  • The Protestant Reformation

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Frage 17 von 45

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What is the core value of international society?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Political independence

  • Self-determination

  • Sovereign equality

  • Freedom

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Frage 18 von 45

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The statement "the king is emperor in his own kingdom' came from:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Italy

  • England

  • France

  • Germany

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Frage 19 von 45

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What term best describes the dominance of a particular state in relation to all other states in the international system?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Empire

  • Hegemon

  • Sovereign

  • Suzereign State

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Frage 20 von 45

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The theorist credited with examining the rights of indigenous peoples but also criticized for implicitly enabling sovereignty-based imperialism was:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Machiavelli

  • Francisco de Vitoria

  • Vattel

  • Grotius

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Frage 21 von 45

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In which region did the cold war have its origins

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • USSR

  • China

  • Europe

  • USA

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Frage 22 von 45

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What war began the era of modern total war?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • British colonial wars in Africa

  • The cold war

  • The First World War

  • The Second World War

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Frage 23 von 45

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What is the term used to describe the retreat from empire throughout most of Asia and Africa after 1945?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Decolonization

  • 'Wind of change'

  • Retro-imperialism

  • Dénte

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Frage 24 von 45

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What key policy was associated with the Truman Doctrine?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Rapprochement

  • Apartheid

  • Containment

  • Decolonization

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Frage 25 von 45

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What year was the NATO treaty signed?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1945

  • 1949

  • 1960

  • 1952

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Frage 26 von 45

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Khrushchev's policy towards the West was a mixture of seeking coexistence and sometimes pursuing:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • nuclear arms superiority

  • economic reforms

  • hegemony

  • confrontation

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Frage 27 von 45

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What was the term used to describe the re-establishment of more friendly relations between China and the US?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Containment

  • Rapprochement

  • Dénte

  • 'Wind of change'

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Frage 28 von 45

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In what year did Cuban missile crisis take place?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1960

  • 1961

  • 1962

  • 1968

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Frage 29 von 45

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The First World War:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • was characterized by trench warfare and attrition.

  • began to end in November 1918 with allied advances.

  • mobilised whole European societies

  • All of the above

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Frage 30 von 45

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Which treaty in 1968 sought to limit the spread of nuclear weapons?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • SALT 1

  • Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

  • ABM Treaty

  • START 1

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Frage 31 von 45

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Which author of the choices below is known for describing the paradox of American Power?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • President George H. W: Bush

  • Kenneth Waltz

  • Samual Huntington

  • Cristopher Layne

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Frage 32 von 45

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What term best describes the balance of power in the post-cold war era?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Unipolar

  • Bipolar

  • Multipolar

  • Semi-polar

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Frage 33 von 45

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The election of Barack Obama in 2008 occurred during:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a time of heightened prosperity for the USA

  • a technological revolution.

  • a time of peace in the Middle East.

  • the worst financial crisis faced by the USA since the 1930s.

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Frage 34 von 45

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The European Security and Defence Policy began in which year?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1998

  • 1965

  • 1992

  • 1999

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Frage 35 von 45

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The United States chose to go to war in Iraq because:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • of the key role played by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

  • Iraq posed a genuine threat to the security of the USA post 9/11

  • the USA was determined to secure control of the regions oil fields.

  • all of the above options are competing explanations behind the USA’s decision to go to war in Iraq.

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Frage 36 von 45

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Who was Yeltsin’s successor in post-communist Russia?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Gorbachev

  • Vladimir Putin

  • Dmitri Trenin

  • All of the above

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Who termed the US a 'hyperpower'?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Boris Yeltsin

  • Hubert Vedrine

  • Josef Joffe

  • Jacques Chirac

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Frage 38 von 45

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September 11th was foreshadowed by:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the attempted destruction of the World Trade Center (1993).

  • the bombing of US embassies in Africa (1998

  • the bombing of the USS Cole (2000).

  • all of the above

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Frage 39 von 45

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What word is contentiously used to describe the post-9/11 brand of US foreign policy?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Turbo-charged capitalism

  • Multilateralism

  • Neo-liberalism

  • Empire

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Frage 40 von 45

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What regional organization emerged in East Asia in 1967?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • ASEAN

  • NATO

  • The UN

  • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

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Frage 41 von 45

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Is the European Union itself a member of UN Security Council or the G20?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Yes, both

  • Only in the UN Security Council

  • Only in the G20

  • No, in neither

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Frage 42 von 45

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We often hear of the Third World (although it is a contested term). But what is the Second World?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The Western hemisphere, with particular reference to the United States (i.e., the term is interchangeable with the “new” world).

  • The Soviet Union and its allies

  • Eastern Asia (particularly Japan and China)

  • All of the above depending on context

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What is “institutional power”?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The relative power of organisations or groups of countries (ASEAN, the EU, BRICs etc.)

  • The ability to control the agenda, to decide what gets decided, and to exclude those issues which threaten the interests of the most powerful.

  • Bureaucratic “heft”, that can hinder or help political leaders realise policy ambitions.

  • Indirect use of international organisations and pressure groups to further a desired agenda

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The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 has been presented as an example of the changing institutional context. How?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The financial crisis weakened Europe’s bargaining position

  • The BASIC countries acted in concert to push a common agenda.

  • China successfully used soft power to push its agenda.

  • Anti-globalisation organisations were made formal partners in the negotiation structure.

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Which of the following is an example of institutions that were created at the end of WW2 (and based on the power situation of that era)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • The IMF

  • ASEAN

  • The World Social Forum

  • The G5

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