PSCI 1102 Midterm 2 Review Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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PSCI 1102 Midterm 2 Review Exam
Questions With Correct Answers.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engles famously argued that "the history of all hitherto
existing societies is the history of... - answer... class struggle"
(T/F) Marxism argues that capitalism is an irrelevant way of thinking...
PSCI 1102 Midterm 2 Review Exam
Questions With Correct Answers.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engles famously argued that "the history of all hitherto
existing societies is the history of... - answer✔✔... class struggle"
(T/F) Marxism argues that capitalism is an irrelevant way of thinking about the world -
answer✔✔False
Which traditional approach to IPE shares the central presumptions of realism? - answer✔✔The
Nationalist Tradition
What international institution was not part of the Bretton Woods system at its inception? -
answer✔✔The United Nations
What did the GATT become in 1955? - answer✔✔the World Trade Organization (WTO)
The broadly adopted neo-liberal approach that advocates the roll-back of the state, leaving
decisions about allocation, production, and distribution to the market, came to be known as __. -
answer✔✔the Washington Consensus
(T/F) In 1971, the United States terminated on-demand dollar-gold convertibility (the gold
standard) - answer✔✔True (went off the gold standard)
(T/F) The 1970s was an economically troubled decade for the advanced industrialized countries
of the Western world - answer✔✔True (oil crisis, stagflation)
When treated as a purely economic phenomenon, the most frequently cited indicator of __ is the
eye-catching intensity of huge increases in world trade witnessed over the last forty years: -
answer✔✔globalization
(T/F) The problems of poverty and hunger disproportionately impacts women and children in
developing countries - answer✔✔True
(T/F) The mainstream approach to hunger states that there is enough good, but that the problem
is distribution and entitlement - answer✔✔False
(T/F) A critical alternative view of poverty places emphasis on lack of access to community-
regulated common resources, community ties, and spiritual values - answer✔✔True
What term refers to an international economic order based on the pursuit of free trade, but
allowing an appropriate role for state intervention in the market in support of national security
and national and global stability? - answer✔✔Embedded liberalism
What is the term for the use of force by regular, uniformed, national military units to achieve
military or political objectives? - answer✔✔Conventional warfare
On what is the Clausewitz philosophy of war not based? - answer✔✔A conceptualization of was
as an end in itself (other answers: his concept of trinity (passion, chance, reason), his concept of
trinity (people, military, political leadership), and a conceptualization of war as a means to
achieve political ends)
Who are the five "official" nuclear-weapons states (NWS) as first identified in the Non-
Proliferation Treaty of 1968? - answer✔✔US, USSR/Russia, China, Britain, and France
Which states are not currently signatories to the NPT? - answer✔✔India, Pakistan, and Israel
(T/F) Terrorism is the use of illegitimate violence by sub-state groups to inspire fear -
answer✔✔True
(T/F) Scholars estimate that the defense of culture or identity is the primary motivation for
globalized terrorist violence - answer✔✔True
What factor does this chapter say has improved terrorist capabilities? - answer✔✔Technologies
associated with globalization
Which culture is not considered by Huntington to qualify as a "civilization"? - answer✔✔African
Which nation is not a member of the permanent five who hold a veto on the Security Council? -
answer✔✔Germany
Which body is not a principle organ of the United Nations system? - answer✔✔World Bank
(other answers: ECOSOC, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice)
(T/F) NGO is an umbrella term applied to a broad range of organizations that differ in size,
scope, motives, and functions - answer✔✔True
Amnesty International is an example of what kind of transnational actor? - answer✔✔An
international non-governmental organization (INGO)
(T/F) The term "social corporate responsibility" is understood as corporate regard for the global
climate, human rights or the well-being of the communities in which they work - answer✔✔True
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