Deck 3: The Evolution of the Interstate System and Alternative Political Systems

Question 1

Which group of theorists are most likely to see the state as an obstacle to peace?

A) Liberals.
B) Realists.
C) Constructivists.
D) Postmodernists.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What does Stephen Krasner mean when he refers to sovereignty as "organized hypocrisy"?

A) State sovereignty violates the rights of individuals.
B) State sovereignty is an immoral doctrine.
C) State sovereignty does not really exist.
D) State sovereignty has frequently been ignored.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is meant by the "external face" of sovereignty?

A) The sovereign's authority over subjects and citizens.
B) The state's boundaries.
C) The legal equality of sovereigns.
D) A state's capacity to project force.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Prior to the territorial state, what political entity dominated northern Europe?

A) The city-state of Florence.
B) The Holy Roman Empire.
C) The Hanseatic League.
D) The monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Question 5

What do we call the legal, political, and social system of medieval Europe?

A) Capitalism.
B) Feudalism.
C) Socialism.
D) Tribalism.

Question 6

What was the basis of the common identity of Europeans prior to the emergence of the territorial state?

A) Aristocratic origins.
B) Roman heritage.
C) Christianity.
D) Class consciousness.

Question 7

What is needed for a state to come into existence?

A) A capital city.
B) Recognition by other states.
C) A national army.
D) Dispatch of ambassadors overseas.

Question 8

To where did economic activity in Europe shift between 1050 and 1500?

A) Italy and Flanders.
B) Russia and Poland.
C) England and France.
D) Spain and Portugal.

Question 9

During the Renaissance, what types of political units existed in Italy?

A) Territorial states.
B) Empires.
C) Trading leagues.
D) City-states.

Question 10

Who was the great Florentine political realist of the Italian Renaissance?

A) Thomas Hobbes.
B) Francesco Guicciardini.
C) Niccolò Machiavelli.
D) Francesco da Rimini.

Question 11

What treaty is recognized as the most important step in achieving state autonomy and sovereignty in Europe?

A) Treaty of Utrecht.
B) Treaty of Paris.
C) Treaty of Westphalia.
D) Treaty of Ghent.

Question 12

What treaty granted princes new powers under the principle of cuius regio, eius religio ("he who governs the territory decides its religion")?

A) Treaty of Westphalia.
B) Treaty of Augsburg.
C) Treaty of Paris.
D) Treaty of Utrecht.

Question 13

What sixteenth-century French political thinker contributed to the development of the concept of sovereignty?

A) Jean Bodin.
B) Thomas Hobbes.
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
D) Jacques Derrida.

Question 14

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a state as defined by the 1933 Montevideo Convention?

A) Permanent population.
B) A defined territory.
C) A government.
D) An army.

Question 15

What is meant by the "internal face of sovereignty"?

A) The sovereign's authority over subjects and citizens.
B) The state's boundaries.
C) The legal equality of sovereigns.
D) Prohibition of states intervening in one another's internal affairs.

Question 16

What was "dynastic sovereignty"?

A) Rule by the people.
B) Rule by the Church.
C) Rule by kings.
D) Rules by guilds and banks.

Question 17

What was the model European state during the era of dynastic sovereignty?

A) France.
B) England.
C) Austria.
D) Spain.

Question 18

Which of the following was characteristic of eighteenth-century wars?

A) The religious fervor of leaders.
B) Mass armies that lived off the land.
C) Limited aims of combatants.
D) Passionate nationalism of soldiers.

Question 19

What were the great powers of the eighteenth century?

A) England, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
B) England, France, Russia, the United States, and Austria.
C) England, France, Russia, Prussia, and Poland.
D) England, France, Spain, Prussia, and Austria.

Question 20

What country thought of itself as the "balancer" in eighteenth-century Europe's balance of power?

A) France.
B) Sweden.
C) Prussia.
D) England.

Question 21

Why did British Foreign Secretary George Canning support the Monroe Doctrine?

A) To prevent a French invasion of Canada.
B) To balance France by preventing France's Spanish ally from regaining its American colonies.
C) To assist the United States to expand into the Caribbean.
D) To prevent US involvement in European affairs.

Question 22

Which of the following is not a reason why balance of power is less relevant to the modern world?

A) There is no longer a relatively equal distribution of power among a sufficient number of major actors to permit any of them to be stopped.
B) It is difficult to measure precisely the distribution of military power.
C) Flexible alliances are prevented by deep ideological differences.
D) None of the above.

Question 23

What was the most important single event in the onset of "popular sovereignty"?

A) The Glorious Revolution.
B) The French Revolution.
C) The American Revolution.
D) The Russian Revolution.

Question 24

What was the most important impact of the French Revolution on global politics?

A) The spread of nationalism.
B) The growth of conservatism.
C) Inspiring the American Revolution.
D) The birth of communism.

Question 25

What was the levee en masse?

A) A new French artillery piece.
B) Universal conscription in France.
C) The new French national anthem.
D) The mobilization of French industry for war.

Question 26

Who conquered all of Europe except Great Britain and Russia in the early nineteenth century?

A) Louis XIV.
B) Napoleon Bonaparte.
C) Gustavus Adolphus.
D) The Duke of Wellington.

Question 27

What political thinker inspired both the American and French Revolutions?

A) Edmund Burke.
B) Alexander Hamilton.
C) John Locke.
D) Thomas Paine.

Question 28

Where was Napoleon's army destroyed?

A) Russia.
B) Spain.
C) Austria.
D) Prussia.

Question 29

What international meeting in 1814-1815 redrew the map of Europe?

A) The Versailles Conference.
B) The Concert of Europe.
C) The Congress of Vienna.
D) The Council of Trent.

Question 30

What European leader stirred up and then became captive of French nationalism and was instrumental in securing the unification of Italy?

A) Napoléon III.
B) Louis XVI.
C) Maurice de Talleyrand.
D) Cardinal Richelieu.

Question 31

From which of the following countries did Italy gain independence?

A) Austria.
B) Prussia.
C) France.
D) Ottoman Turkey.

Question 32

Who accomplished the unification of Germany?

A) Wilhelm II.
B) Otto von Bismarck.
C) Klemens von Metternich.
D) Frederick the Great.

Question 33

Who was China's greatest philosopher and political thinker?

A) Sun Tzu.
B) Confucius.
C) Mencius.
D) Laozi.

Question 34

For much of its history, what type of political system existed in China?

A) Imperial.
B) Democratic.
C) Theocratic.
D) Tribal.

Question 35

What was Great Britain's most important export to China in the 1830s and 1840s?

A) Textiles.
B) Tea.
C) Armaments.
D) Opium.

Question 36

What do we call the anti-foreigner violence that erupted in China in 1900?

A) The Boxer Rebellion.
B) Taiping Rebellion.
C) Yellow Turban Rebellion.
D) The An Shi Rebellion.

Question 37

Who was the Republic of China's first president?

A) Yuan Shikai.
B) Mao Zedong.
C) Chiang Kai-shek.
D) Sun Yat-sen.

Question 38

What was the central quality of rulership in imperial China?

A) Coercive power.
B) Moral behavior.
C) Religious sanction.
D) Bureaucratic skills.

Question 39

What was the Caliphate?

A) The global Islamic community.
B) A council of Muslim imams.
C) Islamic jurists with authority to issue fatwas.
D) The Muslim empire after the Prophet's death.

Question 40

Historically, what were the key rivals to Sunni Islam?

A) Shias.
B) Druse.
C) Kurds.
D) Fatimids.

Question 41

Who were known as the "rightly guided" in Islam?

A) Loyal followers of the Prophet.
B) The four first caliphs.
C) Muslim jurists who interpreted the Koran.
D) The Prophet's direct descendants.

Question 42

Which battle brought a halt to the Muslim advance into Europe in the eighth century?

A) Trafalgar.
B) Lepanto.
C) Waterloo.
D) Poitiers.

Question 43

What does the ulema refer to?

A) A body of Islamic religious scholars.
B) Schools for teaching Muslim theology.
C) The collection of Islamic laws.
D) The Islamic practice of prayer.

Question 44

Who was Saladin?

A) The founder of the Ottoman Empire.
B) The leader of the Seljuk Turks.
C) An Islamic leader who recaptured Jerusalem from its Christian occupiers during the Crusades.
D) The Ottoman sultan who brought Turkey into World War One.

Question 45

Where was the center of the Ottoman Empire?

A) Syria.
B) Turkey.
C) Iraq.
D) Iran.

Question 46

What European city was twice unsuccessfully besieged by the Ottomans?

A) Paris.
B) Warsaw.
C) Rome.
D) Vienna.

Question 47

What country was the Ottoman's major foe in much of the nineteenth century?

A) Russia.
B) Great Britain.
C) Spain.
D) France.

Question 48

When did the Ottoman Empire come to an end?

A) After the Crimean War.
B) After World War One.
C) After World War Two.
D) After the French Revolution.