🤝International Relations MCQs

International Relations MCQs

483 MCQs

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

Acountries appear as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere from the world outside

Bby 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

Cin a more interdependent world, simply to achieve domestic objectives national government are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation

Dstare power, nationalism and territorial boundaries are of growing not less importance in world politics

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

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Aa benign form of cosmopolitan democracy

Bequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Cdecisively shaped by European expansion and conquest

Dsaw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

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Asymmetrical globalization is:

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Athe way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Bthe way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Cthe degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes

Da process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

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The ‘Post-Westphalian Order’ is characterized by:

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Athe sovereign power and authority of national government – the entitlement of states to rule within their own territorial space – being transformed but not necessarily eroded

Ba 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

Ca new geography of political organization and political power is emerging, which transcends territories and borders

Dall of the above

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Time-space compression is:

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Acapitalism’s insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity

Ba 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

Ccentral 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

Dthe technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking

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The international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour.

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Awas 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

Brepresents a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

Cinvolves a complex mix of homogenization and increased heterogeneity given the global diffusion of popular culture, global media corporations, and communications networks

Dwas the product of a complex politics involving public and private actors form trade unions, industrial associations, humanitarian groups, governments, and legal experts

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