🤝International Relations MCQs
International Relations MCQs
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The ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is the result of
Anineteenth Century European imperialism
Btwentieth Century decolonization
Cevolving international understandings of statehood and nationalism
DAll of these
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When West Bank came under Israeli control?
AAfter 1967 Arab-Israel War
BAfter 1968 Arab-Israel War
CAfter 1969 Arab-Israel War
DAfter 1979 Arab-Israel War
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Franz Fanon’s works include which of the following titles?
ABlack Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
BPower, Power, power (1951) and How Colonisation Happened (1960)
CThe Way to Prosperity (1955) and The Colonised (1975)
DColonies (1980) and Post-Colonial Theory (1990)
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Graeme Turner argues that novels are of specific value to post-colonial studies. What is the rationale he offers for this argument?
AThat there have been too many political science theories based purely on the works of academics
BThat because stories and novels are generated by culture they therefore produce meanings and significances that are indicative of that culture
CNovels and stories are more enjoyable to read than works of theory so post-colonial studies will garner more followers using this method
DTurner didn’t have access to academic works when he was writing
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World-traveling is a post-colonial methodology associated with which group?
AAfrican, mate scholars who were educated in the United States
BIndian scholars who had spent years abroad studying the cultures of those in other countries
CFeminist scholars with Latin American backgrounds
DAcademics who had been to more than twenty countries
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Why does post-colonial scholar Homi Bhaba argue that colonial discourse was ambivalent about the colonised?
APortrayal of the colonised errs towards either a passive and conquerable subject or an irrational, untamed barbarian. This means that the colonial subject becomes consistently stereotyped
BScholars did not travel to colonies and therefore could not establish an accurate picture of colonised peoples
CPost-colonial scholars were too focused on the colonising power rather than the colonised peoples
DThe colonised did not make enough effort to have their voices heard
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The social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai writes about five types of cultural flows of imagination. What are they?
AEthnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financscapes and ideoscapes
BEthnoscapes, econoscapes, culturescapes, financscapes and ideoscapes
CGeographical flows, cultural flows, ideas-flows, technological flows, ethnicity flows
DLiberal flows, realist flows, post colonial flows and post structuralist flows
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The fact that there is no world government to enforce rules is referred to as:
Ahegemonic stability
Banarchy
Cthe Prisoner’s Dilemma
Dchaos
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A coalition of states that coordinate their actions to accomplish some goal is a(n):
Aalliance
Bsecurity community
Csocial contract
Dunion
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The fifth-century BCE political realist who said that “the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept” was:
AThucydides
BHobbes
CIbn Kahaldum
DMachiavelli