Deck 30: Nationalism, National Self-Determination and International Relations

Question 1

Nationalism and global politics have mutually shaped each other from at least the mid-eighteenth century.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Nationalism will no longer be relevant in a new political order in which the sovereign nation-state is less central.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The traditional principle of sovereignty was brought increasingly into question by IR theorists at the end of the cold war.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In ethnic nationalism, state membership determines nationality.

Question 5

The First World War gave nationalism a statist and militarist character on which fascists built.

Question 6

Which term refers to a 'whole society' occupying a specific territory?

A) Nation.
B) Country.
C) Polity.
D) None of the options given are correct.

Question 7

Creation of a new state, through uniting smaller ones or separating from a larger one (or both), is a result of:

A) state-creating nationalism.
B) state-supporting nationalism.
C) civic nationalism.
D) state-opposing nationalism.

Question 8

Nationalism can be considered:

A) An ideology.
B) A sentiment shaping people's identity.
C) A political movement.
D) All of the options given are correct.

Question 9

Which of these is not a form of nationalism?

A) Civic
B) Human
C) Ethnic
D) None of the options given are correct.

Question 10

Following the First World War, national self-determination was applied only to…

A) The defeated empires, using ethnic criteria.
B) The victors of the war.
C) Latin America.
D) None of the options given are correct.

Question 11

__________ refers to the transmission of national identities over generations as a complex of myths, and the view that these long-enduring identities form the basis for nationalism.

A) Ethno-symbolism
B) Ethnie
C) Primordialism
D) Modernism

Question 12

Nationalism initially imitated the civic forms projected by which country or countries?

A) The United States
B) Italy and Britain
C) Germany and France
D) France and Britain

Question 13

What has been one reaction against the resurgence of ethno-nationalism after the cold war?

A) The emergence of new states
B) Increased international intervention
C) Civil conflict in Africa
D) Globalization

Question 14

Who said that the nation is 'an imagined political community-imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign'?

A) Miroslav Hroch
B) John Breuilly
C) Eric Hobsbawm
D) Benedict Anderson

Question 15

Approximately how many nation-states existed in 2018?

A) 109
B) 153
C) 193
D) 206.