International Relations MCQs

Option A: electronics equipment

Option B: computer hardware

Option C: textiles

Option D: trademarks

Correct Answer: electronics equipment ✔

Option A: the United States

Option B: the Czech Republic

Option C: Colombia

Option D: India

Correct Answer: the United States ✔

Option A: computer hardware

Option B: insurance

Option C: weapons

Option D: textiles

Correct Answer: insurance ✔

Option A: World Trade Organization

Option B: North American Free Trade Agreement

Option C: Multilateral Trade Agreement

Option D: General Agreement on Trade and Development

Correct Answer: World Trade Organization ✔

Option A: Neorealism

Option B: Liberalism

Option C: Keynesian economics

Option D: Mercantilism

Correct Answer: Mercantilism ✔

Option A: business leaders set production quotas and report them to government, which holds them accountable

Option B: government officials set prices

Option C: supply and demand are key indicators of prices and production levels

Option D: all of these are the case: government officials set prices; business leaders set production quotes and report them to government; and supply and demand are key indicators of prices and production levels

Correct Answer: government officials set prices ✔

Option A: taxation

Option B: sanctions

Option C: corruption

Option D: all of these: corruption, taxation, and sanctions

Correct Answer: taxation ✔

Option A: plutocracy

Option B: autarky

Option C: monopoly

Option D: oligopoly

Correct Answer: oligopoly ✔

Option A: International Trade Commission

Option B: Commerce Department

Option C: Fair Trade Council

Option D: House Commerce Committee

Correct Answer: International Trade Commission ✔

Option A: start-up firm

Option B: service industry

Option C: venture capital firm

Option D: infant industry

Correct Answer: infant industry ✔

Option A: gold or silver bullion

Option B: petrodollars

Option C: money with a fixed exchange rate

Option D: money that can be readily converted to leading world currencies

Correct Answer: money that can be readily converted to leading world currencies ✔

Option A: consumer economics

Option B: Freedman economics

Option C: Keynesian economics

Option D: comparative advantage

Correct Answer: comparative advantage ✔

Option A: German mark

Option B: British pound

Option C: Russian ruble

Option D: the EU’s euro

Correct Answer: D. the EU’s euro ✔

Option A: gold prices

Option B: the euro

Option C: silver prices

Option D: each other

Correct Answer: gold prices ✔

Option A: buying stocks and bonds

Option B: lowering tariff barriers

Option C: paying subsidies

Option D: building a factory

Correct Answer: buying stocks and bonds ✔

Option A: source state

Option B: host state

Option C: incorporated country

Option D: home country

Correct Answer: home country ✔

Option A: workers in industrialized countries

Option B: human rights NGOs

Option C: environmental groups

Option D: None of the answers is correct

Correct Answer: workers in industrialized countries ✔

Option A: government transactions

Option B: the capital account

Option C: capital flows

Option D: the current account

Correct Answer: capital flows ✔

Option A: Latin America

Option B: G-8 states

Option C: Japan

Option D: Africa

Correct Answer: G-8 states ✔

Option A: regulatory commission

Option B: central bank

Option C: fiscal policy

Option D: currency policy

Correct Answer: central bank ✔

Option A: Bank of America

Option B: Ameri bank

Option C: First National Bank of America

Option D: Federal Reserve

Correct Answer: Federal Reserve ✔

Option A: There is no financial inventive to abide by the sanctions

Option B: Broad multilateral support for international sanctions usually inspires the target of the sanctions to act against them

Option C: If one state tries to use economic means of leverage to influence another, other states are damaged economically

Option D: Refusing to participate in mutually profitable economic trade often harms oneself more than the target of one’s actions, unless all other states follows suit

Correct Answer: D. Refusing to participate in mutually profitable economic trade often harms oneself more than the target of one’s actions, unless all other states follows suit ✔

Option A: International Monetary Fund

Option B: All these answers are correct

Option C: World Bank

Option D: World Exchange Organization

Correct Answer: International Monetary Fund ✔

Option A: Portfolio investment

Option B: Fiduciary investment

Option C: Foreign direct investment

Option D: Currency investment

Correct Answer: Foreign direct investment ✔

Option A: interdependence

Option B: state-sponsored sanctions

Option C: self-reliance

Option D: import reliant

Correct Answer: self-reliance ✔

Option A: revaluation

Option B: reduction

Option C: restructuring

Option D: devaluation

Correct Answer: devaluation ✔

Option A: hard currency reserves

Option B: homes

Option C: factories

Option D: None of these answers is correct

Correct Answer: hard currency reserves ✔

Option A: a tariff

Option B: a surcharge

Option C: a subsidy

Option D: a severance tax

Correct Answer: a tariff ✔

Option A: China

Option B: the United States

Option C: Singapore

Option D: France

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: global trade agreements

Option B: reciprocity

Option C: regional trade agreements

Option D: interdependence

Correct Answer: regional trade agreements ✔

Option A: increases the total portfolio value of foreigners who hold that currency

Option B: causes a drop in demand for that currency

Option C: increases confidence in a state’s ability to meet its debts

Option D: is rarely a quick fix for financial problems in the short term

Correct Answer: causes a drop in demand for that currency ✔

Option A: the WTO will likely be replaced by the International Monetary Fund

Option B: the more necessary the WTO will be

Option C: a world-wide common market will soon be achieved

Option D: the WTO may be weakened

Correct Answer: the WTO may be weakened ✔

Option A: stimulus spending to increase inflation

Option B: deficit reduction to increase economic growth

Option C: deficit spending to stimulate the economy

Option D: fiscal restraint to bring down inflation

Correct Answer: deficit spending to stimulate the economy ✔

Option A: It is linked in value to a basket of several key international currencies

Option B: It can be owned by states or companies, but not by individuals

Option C: It is the closest thing to a world currency that exists

Option D: It is created in limited amounts by the IMF

Correct Answer: It can be owned by states or companies, but not by individuals ✔

Option A: They can’t use state funds to buy or sell currencies

Option B: All of their movements are tightly regulated by the IMF

Option C: Developing countries oppose the manipulation of markets by developed countries

Option D: The control only a small fraction of the money moving on such markets

Correct Answer: The control only a small fraction of the money moving on such markets ✔

Option A: “exported” currency to other countries

Option B: greatly increased tariffs on imports from Asia

Option C: increased export of goods and services by offering subsidies to those industries

Option D: invested heavily in the euro and the yen

Correct Answer: A. “exported” currency to other countries ✔

Option A: Movement across borders of countries of goods, people, money, investments etc.

Option B: Globalization

Option C: International trade

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Movement across borders of countries of goods, people, money, investments etc. ✔

Option A: Transactions that occur through the web

Option B: Transactions that occur across open borders

Option C: Transaction that occur globally across widely dispersed locations

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: A stock or share

Option B: A bond denominated in a currency that is alien to a substantial proportion of the underwrites through whom it is distributed and sold

Option C: A share issued simultaneously in different stock markets

Option D: A financial contract that derives its value from an underlying asset

Correct Answer: A share issued simultaneously in different stock markets ✔

Option A: Through capital controls

Option B: Through import tariffs

Option C: Through immigration controls

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Transactions where anything goes

Option B: Transactions where global trade and finance replace global trade and finance

Option C: Transactions where international trade and finance replace global trade and finance

Option D: Protectionist transactions

Correct Answer: Transactions where global trade and finance replace global trade and finance ✔

Option A: G8

Option B: IOSCO

Option C: WHO

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: a and b ✔

Option A: Companies export material throughout the global

Option B: Companies find materials, components and services from anywhere in the world

Option C: Companies pool resources to find new sources

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Companies find materials, components and services from anywhere in the world ✔

Option A: A bond denominated in a currency alien to underwrites

Option B: A loan provided in special Euromarkets.

Option C: The supraterritorial denomination issued throughout the IMF (used as its unit of account)

Option D: Site for financial business offering tax reductions and subsidies

Correct Answer: The supraterritorial denomination issued throughout the IMF (used as its unit of account) ✔

Option A: By devaluing their currency

Option B: By relaxing labour and environmental standards

Option C: By reducing restrictions on repatriation of profits

Option D: a and c

Correct Answer: a and c ✔

Option A: i, ii, iii

Option B: ii, iii, i

Option C: iii, i, ii

Option D: iii, ii, i

Correct Answer: iii, i, ii ✔

Option A: the sovereign power and authority of national government – the entitlement of states to rule within their own territorial space – being transformed but not necessarily eroded

Option B: a real dilemma: in return for more effective public policy and meeting their citizens demands, whether in relation to the drugs trade or employment, their capacity for self-governance – that is sate autonomy – is compromised

Option C: a new geography of political organization and political power is emerging, which transcends territories and borders

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: capitalism’s insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity

Option B: a shared ecology involving shared en environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance

Option C: central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy not be possible

Option D: the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking

Correct Answer: the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking ✔

Option A: was a result of countries appearing as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere form the world outside

Option B: represents a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

Option C: involves a complex mix of homogenization and increased heterogeneity given the global diffusion of popular culture, global media corporations, and communications networks

Option D: was the product of a complex politics involving public and private actors form trade unions, industrial associations, humanitarian groups, governments, and legal experts

Correct Answer: was the product of a complex politics involving public and private actors form trade unions, industrial associations, humanitarian groups, governments, and legal experts ✔

Option A: is the complex which bring together the representatives of governments, international organizations, NGOs, and the corporate sector for the formulation and implementation of global public policy

Option B: is the formal and informal mechanism which link government officials in one agency with their foreign counterparts for purposes of policy coordination, harmonization, dialog and enforcement

Option C: is he tendency for stats to become increasingly fragmented actors in global politics as every part of the government machine becomes entangled with its foreign counterparts and others in dealing proliferating transgovernmental and global policy networks

Option D: is the rightful entitlement to exclusive, unqualified and supreme rule within a delimited territory

Correct Answer: is he tendency for stats to become increasingly fragmented actors in global politics as every part of the government machine becomes entangled with its foreign counterparts and others in dealing proliferating transgovernmental and global policy networks ✔

Option A: by comparison with the period 1870 to 1914 the world is much less globalized economically, politically and culturally

Option B: the vast bulk of international economic and political activity is concentrated within the group of OECD states

Option C: globalization is at best a self-serving myth or ideology which reinforces western and particularly US hegemony in world politics

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: countries appear as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere from the world outside

Option B: by comparison with the heyday of European global empires the majority of the world’s population and countries in the South are now much less integrated into the global system

Option C: in a more interdependent world, simply to achieve domestic objectives national government are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation

Option D: stare power, nationalism and territorial boundaries are of growing not less importance in world politics

Correct Answer: in a more interdependent world, simply to achieve domestic objectives national government are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation ✔

Option A: a benign form of cosmopolitan democracy

Option B: equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Option C: decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest

Option D: saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Correct Answer: decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest ✔

Option A: the way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Option B: the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups

Option C: the degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes

Option D: a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries

Correct Answer: the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups ✔

Option A: defined a new age in world history so today the microchip and the satellite are icons of a globalized world order

Option B: evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires

Option C: saw the expansion of transnational and international law from trade to human rights

Option D: saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour

Correct Answer: evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires ✔

Option A: Poland from East Germany

Option B: the Soviet Union from East Germany

Option C: West Germany from the Soviet Union

Option D: West Berlin from East Berlin

Correct Answer: West Berlin from East Berlin ✔

Option A: a stretching of social, political, and economic activities across political frontiers.

Option B: a growing magnitude of interconnections in almost every sphere of social existence

Option C: an accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: an attempt to secure its natural resources

Option B: an attempt to support the new Soviet policy of glasnost

Option C: an attempt to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining a seaport in the Horn of Africa

Option D: a proxy war with the Soviet Union

Correct Answer: a proxy war with the Soviet Union ✔

Option A: containment of American military power

Option B: economic reform

Option C: support of developing world communist revolutions

Option D: detente with China

Correct Answer: economic reform ✔

Option A: Eastern Europe’s stated desire to remain politically close to Russia

Option B: The division between Eastern and Western Europe over expanding membership in NATO

Option C: Eastern Europe’s support of the U.S decision to invade Iraq in 2003

Option D: Western Europe’s rejection of high agricultural subsidies in international world trade negotiations

Correct Answer: C. Eastern Europe’s support of the U.S decision to invade Iraq in 2003 ✔

Option A: It cemented communist military control over Southeast Asia

Option B: It sparked a thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and China

Option C: It hardened overall American attitudes toward communism

Option D: It sparked a thaw in relations between China and the United States

Correct Answer: It hardened overall American attitudes toward communism ✔

Option A: North America

Option B: Western Europe

Option C: the Middle East

Option D: Japan

Correct Answer: the Middle East ✔

Option A: China

Option B: Japan

Option C: Great Britain

Option D: the United States

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: Bosnia

Option B: Croatia

Option C: Serbia

Option D: Czechoslovakia

Correct Answer: Bosnia ✔

Option A: dominance

Option B: reciprocity

Option C: identity

Option D: favoritism

Correct Answer: identity ✔

Option A: Macedonia

Option B: Bosnia

Option C: Iraq

Option D: Rwanda

Correct Answer: Rwanda ✔

Option A: were crises during the post-Cold War

Option B: were crises that ted to World War II

Option C: were crises that followed the Vietnam War

Option D: were crises during the Cold

Correct Answer: were crises during the Cold ✔

Option A: MNCs

Option B: NGOs

Option C: IGOs

Option D: substate actors

Correct Answer: MNCs ✔

Option A: tragedy of the commons

Option B: collective action

Option C: free riding

Option D: hegemony

Correct Answer: hegemony ✔

Option A: France

Option B: Soviet Union

Option C: United States

Option D: All these countries occupied Germany after World War II: the United States, the Soviet Union, & France

Correct Answer: France ✔

Option A: identity

Option B: co-operation

Option C: dominance

Option D: reciprocity

Correct Answer: identity ✔

Option A: Amnesty International

Option B: NATO

Option C: the World Trade Organization

Option D: OPEC

Correct Answer: Amnesty International ✔

Option A: the Marshall Plan

Option B: containment

Option C: mutual assured destruction

Option D: peaceful coexistence

Correct Answer: containment ✔

Option A: United States

Option B: Japan

Option C: China

Option D: Great Britain

Correct Answer: United States ✔

Option A: North Korea

Option B: Poland

Option C: East Germany

Option D: Cuba

Correct Answer: Cuba ✔

Option A: reciprocity

Option B: dominance

Option C: identity

Option D: polity

Correct Answer: reciprocity ✔

Option A: interstate

Option B: individual

Option C: global

Option D: national

Correct Answer: interstate ✔

Option A: immediately before World War I

Option B: immediately after the Korean War

Option C: immediately after World War I

Option D: immediately after World War II

Correct Answer: immediately after World War I ✔

Option A: South of Rann of Kutch

Option B: North of Rann or Kutch

Option C: West of Rann of Kutch

Option D: East of Rann of Kutch

Correct Answer: South of Rann of Kutch ✔

Option A: 40 Km

Option B: 45 Km

Option C: 31 Km

Option D: 38 Km

Correct Answer: 38 Km ✔

Option A: British Government

Option B: Sindh Government

Option C: Partly by Sindh government and partly by Maharaja of Rann of Kutch

Option D: Maharaja of Rann of Kutch

Correct Answer: Partly by Sindh government and partly by Maharaja of Rann of Kutch ✔

Option A: the eastern edge of the creek

Option B: the western edge of the creek

Option C: Through the middle of the creek

Option D: through 3rd half of the creek

Correct Answer: Through the middle of the creek ✔

Option A: Thalweg Doctrine

Option B: Mari Doctrine

Option C: B.P (Border Post) Doctrine

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: Thalweg Doctrine ✔

Option A: 1947

Option B: 1958

Option C: 1960

Option D: 1965

Correct Answer: 1965 ✔

Option A: it should run on northern bank of creek

Option B: it should run on eastern bank of creek

Option C: it should run on southern bank of creek

Option D: it should run on western ban k of creek

Correct Answer: it should run on eastern bank of creek ✔

Option A: this is India’s deviation from historical Indus Water Treaty

Option B: this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable

Option C: Creek is not regularly navigable

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable ✔

Option A: maps of 1913-14 approved by surveyor General of India

Option B: map of 1937 approved by surveyor General of India

Option C: both of these

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: both of these ✔

Option A: India

Option B: Pakistan

Option C: UNO

Option D: USA

Correct Answer: India ✔

Option A: both countries should go for another arbitration

Option B: both countries should go for international arbitration

Option C: both countries should share creek equally

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: both countries should go for international arbitration ✔

Option A: 1966

Option B: 1967

Option C: 1968

Option D: 1969

Correct Answer: 1968 ✔

Option A: 1914 map

Option B: 1925 map

Option C: both of them

Option D: None of them

Correct Answer: both of them ✔

Option A: 35 miles

Option B: 45 miles

Option C: 55 miles

Option D: 60 miles

Correct Answer: 60 miles ✔

Option A: prospect of finding petroleum deposits

Option B: presence of schools of fish in the continental shelf

Option C: both of these

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: both of these ✔

Option A: US convention on the Law of Seas

Option B: UN convention on the Law of Seas

Option C: India-Pakistan convention of the Law of Seas

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: UN convention on the Law of Seas ✔

Option A: January 2004

Option B: January 2005

Option C: January 2003

Option D: January 2006

Correct Answer: January 2006 ✔

Option A: Resolution of 1914 signed between government of Sindh and Maharga of Kutch

Option B: Resolution of 1925 signed between Sindh government and Maharga of Kutch

Option C: Both of them

Option D: None of them

Correct Answer: Resolution of 1914 signed between government of Sindh and Maharga of Kutch ✔

Option A: Western Flank of the creek

Option B: Eastern Flank of the Creek

Option C: Southern Flank of the Creek

Option D: Northern Flank of the Creek

Correct Answer: Eastern Flank of the Creek ✔

Option A: Blue line

Option B: Green line

Option C: Red line

Option D: Yellow line

Correct Answer: Green line ✔

Option A: The delta concentration

Option B: The bond or river

Option C: The mid channel

Option D: All of them

Correct Answer: The mid channel ✔

Option A: Navigable

Option B: Not Navigable

Option C: Partially Navigable

Option D: Mostly Navigable

Correct Answer: Navigable ✔