Deck 13: The State Challenged by New Actors

Question 1

Most NGOs have grass-roots origins growing out of micro-level endeavors rather than macro-level endeavors.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Roughly how many countries are there in the contemporary world scene?

A) 51
B) 77
C) 127
D) 194
E) 275

Answer 2

194

Question 3

The doctrine of just wars in the Christian tradition has included all of these elements EXCEPT:

A) proportionality
B) option of last resort
C) amnesty
D) discrimination between civilians and combatants

Answer 3

amnesty

Question 4

Nearly 100 wars have been fought during the last 1,000 years of human history.

Question 5

Robert Kennedy was among the "doves" in the Cuban missile crisis.

Question 6

The number of MNCs currently is approximately:

A) 100
B) 1,000
C) 10,000
D) 100,000
E) one million

Question 7

After centuries of bloodshed, the Christian forces ultimately defeated the Muslims decisively in the Crusades.

Question 8

The Thirty Years War was fought largely to resolve the conflict between:

A) religious and secular authority
B) Catholics and Muslims
C) Realists and Idealists
D) heterogeneous and homogeneous authority

Question 9

Non-interference into the affairs of another nation-state is enshrined most importantly in the doctrine of sovereignty.

Question 10

An economic embargo was attempted in an effort to place pressure on Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait in 1990 prior to a military solution being implemented.

Question 11

While President George H.W. Bush presented the 1991 Persian Gulf War as a just war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, most scholars have concluded that the allied intervention was motivated more by oil than ethics.

Question 12

Pacifism has never enjoyed prominence in the doctrines of either Judaism or Christianity.

Question 13

The success of the European Union represents a vindication of which theory?

A) protectionism
B) autarchy
C) absolute advantage
D) comparative advantage
E) international functionalism

Question 14

Arms control and international law are two:

A) realist approaches to peace and security
B) idealist approaches to peace and security
C) underpinnings of just war doctrine
D) underpinnings of collective security action

Question 15

Which of these feature films was dripping with sardonic irony and sarcasm in its examination of the question of nuclear war?

A) Five 1951)
B) On the Beach 1959)
C) Fail Safe 1964)
D) Dr. Strangelove 1964)

Question 16

With which country did Greenpeace have a long-running feud?

A) France
B) United Kingdom
C) Brazil
D) United States
E) Russia

Question 17

John F. Kennedy's choices in the Cuban missile crisis boiled down to only two realistic ones:

A) invasion or air strike
B) air strike or blockade
C) blockade or invasion
D) blockade or atomic war

Question 18

Which of these types of actors on the world stage has the profit motive as its unambiguous mission?

A) NGOs
B) IFIs
C) MNCs
D) IGOs
E) poor states

Question 19

One megaton in nuclear weapons parlance equates to one thousand tons of TNT equivalency.

Question 20

International law is meaningless as an influence on the day-to-day operation of states.

Question 21

By the mid-1990s the GNP of the European Union had grown to where it exceeded that of the United States.

Question 22

All IGOs operate at the global level and deal with economic development agendas.

Question 23

Mel Gibson's popular film, Braveheart 1995), shows how seamlessly nation and state can fit together in the creation of homogeneous nation-states.

Question 24

Hollywood churned out numerous bold films in the 1950s which addressed the issue of nuclear war directly and graphically.

Question 25

The fact that John Kennedy ran partly on a "missile gap" platform in the 1960 presidential election made it difficult for him to reveal during the Cuban crisis the extent of U.S. nuclear superiority over the Soviets.

Question 26

President Kennedy and his advisers in the Cuban missile crisis accurately perceived the motivations behind the bold moves undertaken by the Soviet Union.