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Theory of international relations

Questão 1 de 45

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The 2008 financial crisis can be used to highight:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 2 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Economics

  • Environment

  • Technics (technology)

  • Politics

Explicação

Questão 3 de 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?'

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Sovereignty

  • The disaggregated strate

  • Independence

  • 'Might is right'

Explicação

Questão 4 de 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”?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Cosmopolitan

  • Global politics

  • Raison d'etat

  • Global polity

Explicação

Questão 5 de 45

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The Threaty of Westphalia was signed in:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 1870

  • 1648

  • 1945

  • 1989

Explicação

Questão 6 de 45

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The central argument of the chapter is that globalization:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 7 de 45

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Globalization can be seen within the military sphere by:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  • the growth of transnational terrorism.

  • the growing significance of transnational military corporations.

  • all of the above.

Explicação

Questão 8 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  • territoriality, sovereignty, autonomy.

  • independence, autonomy, sovereignty.

  • sovereignty, territoriality, independence.

Explicação

Questão 9 de 45

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Political globalization involves webs of:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • non-state actors and corporations.

  • alliance politics.

  • civil society

  • multilateral institutions, policy networks, and transgovernmental cooperation.

Explicação

Questão 10 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • International relations to global politics

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

  • Internationalization to globalization

  • Cold war to post-cold war

Explicação

Questão 11 de 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."?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Grotius

  • Hedly Bull

  • Machiavelli

Explicação

Questão 12 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 360 AD

  • 395 AD

  • 300 AD

  • 400 AD

Explicação

Questão 13 de 45

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Ancient Greek institutions that approximated international society include:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • amphyctionic Council

  • Arbitration

  • proxenia

  • all of the above

Explicação

Questão 14 de 45

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The term signifying natural and eternal laws is:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • dharma

  • just war

  • karma

  • the correct order of society

Explicação

Questão 15 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • China

  • India

  • Rome

  • Greece

Explicação

Questão 16 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The respublica Christiana

  • The Counter Reformation

  • The Renaissance

  • The Protestant Reformation

Explicação

Questão 17 de 45

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What is the core value of international society?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Political independence

  • Self-determination

  • Sovereign equality

  • Freedom

Explicação

Questão 18 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Italy

  • England

  • France

  • Germany

Explicação

Questão 19 de 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?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Empire

  • Hegemon

  • Sovereign

  • Suzereign State

Explicação

Questão 20 de 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:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Machiavelli

  • Francisco de Vitoria

  • Vattel

  • Grotius

Explicação

Questão 21 de 45

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In which region did the cold war have its origins

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • USSR

  • China

  • Europe

  • USA

Explicação

Questão 22 de 45

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What war began the era of modern total war?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • British colonial wars in Africa

  • The cold war

  • The First World War

  • The Second World War

Explicação

Questão 23 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Decolonization

  • 'Wind of change'

  • Retro-imperialism

  • Dénte

Explicação

Questão 24 de 45

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What key policy was associated with the Truman Doctrine?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Rapprochement

  • Apartheid

  • Containment

  • Decolonization

Explicação

Questão 25 de 45

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What year was the NATO treaty signed?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 1945

  • 1949

  • 1960

  • 1952

Explicação

Questão 26 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • nuclear arms superiority

  • economic reforms

  • hegemony

  • confrontation

Explicação

Questão 27 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Containment

  • Rapprochement

  • Dénte

  • 'Wind of change'

Explicação

Questão 28 de 45

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In what year did Cuban missile crisis take place?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 1960

  • 1961

  • 1962

  • 1968

Explicação

Questão 29 de 45

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The First World War:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • was characterized by trench warfare and attrition.

  • began to end in November 1918 with allied advances.

  • mobilised whole European societies

  • All of the above

Explicação

Questão 30 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • SALT 1

  • Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

  • ABM Treaty

  • START 1

Explicação

Questão 31 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • President George H. W: Bush

  • Kenneth Waltz

  • Samual Huntington

  • Cristopher Layne

Explicação

Questão 32 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Unipolar

  • Bipolar

  • Multipolar

  • Semi-polar

Explicação

Questão 33 de 45

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The election of Barack Obama in 2008 occurred during:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 34 de 45

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The European Security and Defence Policy began in which year?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 1998

  • 1965

  • 1992

  • 1999

Explicação

Questão 35 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 36 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Gorbachev

  • Vladimir Putin

  • Dmitri Trenin

  • All of the above

Explicação

Questão 37 de 45

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Who termed the US a 'hyperpower'?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Boris Yeltsin

  • Hubert Vedrine

  • Josef Joffe

  • Jacques Chirac

Explicação

Questão 38 de 45

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September 11th was foreshadowed by:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 39 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Turbo-charged capitalism

  • Multilateralism

  • Neo-liberalism

  • Empire

Explicação

Questão 40 de 45

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What regional organization emerged in East Asia in 1967?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • ASEAN

  • NATO

  • The UN

  • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

Explicação

Questão 41 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Yes, both

  • Only in the UN Security Council

  • Only in the G20

  • No, in neither

Explicação

Questão 42 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 43 de 45

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What is “institutional power”?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 44 de 45

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 45 de 45

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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)?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The IMF

  • ASEAN

  • The World Social Forum

  • The G5

Explicação