Deck 5: Rising Powers and the Emerging Global Order

Question 1

The financial crisis that hit the advanced capitalist core in 2007 supported predictions about the future importance of the BRICS because the crisis…

A) Seriously damaged the economies of the core Western countries.
B) Undermined the technical and moral authority at the centre of the global capitalist system.
C) Reinforced the view that international economic institutions had to be reformed to reflect shifting economic power.
D) All of the given answers are correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The idea of a gradual diffusion of liberal values can be said to be of a Kantian origin.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

A) The Western hemisphere, with particular reference to the United States (i.e., the term is interchangeable with the 'new' world).
B) The Soviet Union and its allies.
C) Eastern Asia (particularly Japan and China).
D) All of the above depending on context.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The World Social Forum is broadly speaking critical of neoliberalism.

Question 5

What is 'institutional power'?

A) The relative power of organisations or groups of countries (ASEAN, the EU, BRICS etc.).
B) The ability to control the agenda, to determine what gets decided, and to exclude those issues which threaten the interests of the most powerful.
C) Bureaucratic 'heft', that can hinder or help political leaders realise policy ambitions.
D) The capability to set the material and discursive conditions for action.

Question 6

Beginning in the 2000s, analysts predicted that China and India would be dominant suppliers of raw materials, while Russia and Brazil would rise as principal suppliers of manufactured goods and services.

Question 7

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

A) The financial crisis weakened Europe's bargaining position
B) The BASIC countries acted in concert to push a common agenda.
C) China successfully used soft power to push its agenda.
D) Anti-globalisation organizations were made formal partners in the negotiation structure.

Question 8

Marxist and critical political economists argue that we should look at the underlying structural changes in global capitalism rather than the world of nation-states.

Question 9

The notion of Brazil as a rising power gained ground under President Lula, but Brazil now faces deep structural economic problems, high levels of social violence, and stark political polarization.

Question 10

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)?

A) The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B) ASEAN.
C) The World Social Forum
D) The G20.

Question 11

Those who stress the continued importance of rising powers point to all of the following developments as evidence, except…

A) The announcement of China's 'One Belt, One Road'/'Belt and Road Initiative' strategy.
B) India receiving a seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
C) China's creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
D) The creation of the BRICS Development Bank (now the New Development Bank).

Question 12

For both liberals and constructivists, what is power not always connected with?

A) Actors' values.
B) Actors' identities.
C) Actors' resources.
D) Actors' purposes.

Question 13

Contrary to expectations at the beginning of the twenty-first century, rising powers (with the exception of China) have returned to their role as secondary or supporting actors in global politics.

Question 14

Who stated that the existence of a 'hierarchy of prestige' is central to the ordering of international relations?

A) Robert Gilpin.
B) Jim O'Neill.
C) Paul Kennedy.
D) Shogo Suzuki.