International Relations MCQs

Option A: 1948

Option B: 1950

Option C: 1945

Option D: 1946

Correct Answer: 1950 ✔

Option A: 1952

Option B: 1955

Option C: 1950

Option D: 1948

Correct Answer: 1952 ✔

Option A: China

Option B: USA

Option C: India

Option D: Sri Lanka

Correct Answer: USA ✔

Option A: Baghdad Pact

Option B: Common Pact

Option C: West Pact

Option D: Islamabad Pact

Correct Answer: Baghdad Pact ✔

Option A: Middle East Treaty Organization or METO

Option B: Atlantic Organization

Option C: Asia-West Pact

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: Middle East Treaty Organization or METO ✔

Option A: Central and Eastern European communist states

Option B: Western states

Option C: South Asian states

Option D: Central Asian states

Correct Answer: Central and Eastern European communist states ✔

Option A: Marshall Plan’

Option B: Bretton Wood Agreement

Option C: Treaty of Rome

Option D: Treaty of London

Correct Answer: Treaty of Rome ✔

Option A: 1958

Option B: 1948

Option C: 1957

Option D: 1955

Correct Answer: 1957 ✔

Option A: 1960

Option B: 1980

Option C: 1958

Option D: 1950

Correct Answer: 1958 ✔

Option A: 1958

Option B: 1947

Option C: 1955

Option D: 1940

Correct Answer: 1958 ✔

Option A: 1960

Option B: 1961

Option C: 1962

Option D: 1963

Correct Answer: 1961 ✔

Option A: Washington

Option B: Karachi

Option C: Moscow

Option D: Dehli

Correct Answer: Karachi ✔

Option A: 800 million dollars

Option B: 900 million dollars

Option C: 700 million dollars

Option D: 950 million dollars

Correct Answer: 900 million dollars ✔

Option A: Sutlug, Beas & Indus

Option B: Sultug, Beas & Ravi

Option C: Chenab, Beas & Ravi

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: Sultug, Beas & Ravi ✔

Option A: 1965

Option B: 1967

Option C: 1963

Option D: 1962

Correct Answer: 1963 ✔

Option A: 2000 square kilometers

Option B: 942 square kilometers

Option C: 1,542 square kilometers

Option D: 1,942 square kilometers

Correct Answer: 942 square kilometers ✔

Option A: Z A Bhutto

Option B: Agha Shahi

Option C: Ayub Khan

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: Z A Bhutto ✔

Option A: 1965

Option B: 1967

Option C: 1964

Option D: 1962

Correct Answer: 1964 ✔

Option A: underground

Option B: on moon

Option C: Antarctica

Option D: under sea

Correct Answer: underground ✔

Option A: founding document of the SAARC

Option B: founding document of the ASEAN

Option C: founding document of the NAFTA

Option D: founding document of the SCO

Correct Answer: founding document of the ASEAN ✔

Option A: WIPO Treaty

Option B: WIPO Conference

Option C: WIPO Convention

Option D: Vienna Convention

Correct Answer: WIPO Convention ✔

Option A: 1967

Option B: 1965

Option C: 1965

Option D: 1966

Correct Answer: 1967 ✔

Option A: limits the spread of nuclear weapons through non-proliferation

Option B: limits the spread of nuclear weapons disarmament

Option C: gives the right to utilize nuclear technology for peaceful purposes

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: 1971

Option B: 1970

Option C: 1969

Option D: 1972

Correct Answer: 1972 ✔

Option A: 1965

Option B: 1967

Option C: 1968

Option D: 1969

Correct Answer: 1968 ✔

Option A: Permanent border

Option B: Red zone

Option C: Line of Control

Option D: Lion of Actual Control

Correct Answer: Line of Control ✔

Option A: 100 kilotons

Option B: 200 kilotons

Option C: 150 kilotons

Option D: 250 kilotons

Correct Answer: 150 kilotons ✔

Option A: Egypt and Israel

Option B: Egypt and PLO

Option C: PLO and Israel

Option D: Jordan and Israel

Correct Answer: Egypt and Israel ✔

Option A: France

Option B: Luxembourg

Option C: UK

Option D: Italy

Correct Answer: Luxembourg ✔

Option A: 1989

Option B: 1990

Option C: 1988

Option D: 1991

Correct Answer: 1988 ✔

Option A: USA & China

Option B: China & USSR

Option C: USA & USSR

Option D: USA & Japan

Correct Answer: USA & USSR ✔

Option A: Pakistan & Afghanistan

Option B: Pakistan & USSR

Option C: USA & USSR

Option D: USSR & Afghanistan

Correct Answer: Pakistan & Afghanistan ✔

Option A: 1990

Option B: 1989

Option C: 1988

Option D: 1980

Correct Answer: 1989 ✔

Option A: SAARC

Option B: ASEAN

Option C: European Union

Option D: IAEA

Correct Answer: European Union ✔

Option A: Italy

Option B: Netherlands

Option C: Switzerland

Option D: France

Correct Answer: Netherlands ✔

Option A: 1993

Option B: 1990

Option C: 1992

Option D: 1980

Correct Answer: 1992 ✔

Option A: 1990

Option B: 1993

Option C: 1991

Option D: 1992

Correct Answer: 1992 ✔

Option A: 1991

Option B: 1993

Option C: 1990

Option D: 1992

Correct Answer: 1992 ✔

Option A: Egypt

Option B: Palestine Liberation Organization

Option C: Jordan

Option D: HAMAS

Correct Answer: Palestine Liberation Organization ✔

Option A: 1995

Option B: 1993

Option C: 1994

Option D: 1990

Correct Answer: 1994 ✔

Option A: 1994

Option B: 1993

Option C: 1995

Option D: 1992

Correct Answer: 1994 ✔

Option A: Canada, USA & Brazil

Option B: Argentine, USA & Mexico

Option C: Canada, Brazil & Mexico

Option D: Canada, USA & Mexico

Correct Answer: Canada, USA & Mexico ✔

Option A: 1994

Option B: 1990

Option C: 1995

Option D: 1992

Correct Answer: 1994 ✔

Option A: Bosnian War

Option B: Cyprus War

Option C: Chechnya War

Option D: Afghan War

Correct Answer: Bosnian War ✔

Option A: 1990

Option B: 1996

Option C: 1992

Option D: 1993

Correct Answer: 1996 ✔

Option A: 1 January 2007

Option B: 1 January 2008

Option C: 1 January 2006

Option D: 1 January 2009

Correct Answer: 1 January 2006 ✔

Option A: 2006

Option B: 2007

Option C: 2005

Option D: 2004

Correct Answer: 2005 ✔

Option A: 1998

Option B: 1995

Option C: 1990

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1998 ✔

Option A: Treaty of Lisbon

Option B: Treaty of Rome

Option C: Treaty of Manchester

Option D: Treaty of Paris

Correct Answer: Treaty of Lisbon ✔

Option A: A human association in which members share common symbols and wish to cooperate to realize common objectives

Option B: A community that wishes to govern itself and be free from alien rule

Option C: A community in which the state claims legitimacy on grounds that it represents them

Option D: A community that feels loyalty to a nation-state

Correct Answer: A community that wishes to govern itself and be free from alien rule ✔

Option A: A condition in which warfare is a recurrent feature of the relations between states not the least because they regard it as inevitable

Option B: A condition in which political power is dispersed between local national, and supranational institutions, none of which command supreme loyalty

Option C: A condition in which international organizations, transnational corporations and so forth are accountable to the peoples of the world

Option D: A condition in which human labour and its products are sold and bought in the market place

Correct Answer: A condition in which political power is dispersed between local national, and supranational institutions, none of which command supreme loyalty ✔

Option A: Power that can be projected deep into society

Option B: Power based on controlling the instruments of violence

Option C: Power that can be projected across whole territories

Option D: Power that a state holds by virtue of its population

Correct Answer: Power that can be projected deep into society ✔

Option A: A state that has collapsed and cannot provide for its citizens

Option B: A product of globalization whereby international institutions and global markets are accountable to people of a state

Option C: A state which has negative sovereignty but lacks positive sovereignty

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: A state which has negative sovereignty but lacks positive sovereignty ✔

Option A: It argues that Western liberal democracy had solved the social conflicts which earlier dominated industrial societies

Option B: It assumes that non-Western societies will follow the Western path of economic and political development

Option C: It argues that Western liberal democracies today are faced with conflict different form, those that dominated industrial societies

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: a and b ✔

Option A: Rights belonging to groups such as minority nations rather than to individuals

Option B: Rights unfairly belonging to a privileged group

Option C: Rights belonging to a political community

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Rights belonging to groups such as minority nations rather than to individuals ✔

Option A: the history of ethnic cleansing by liberal democratic states

Option B: the cosmopolitan understanding of the role of war in human affairs

Option C: the condition in which warfare is a recurrent feature of the relations between states not least because they regard it as inevitable

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: the condition in which warfare is a recurrent feature of the relations between states not least because they regard it as inevitable ✔

Option A: They argue that most people value their membership of a political community; they are unlikely to shift their loyalty to the human race

Option B: All forms of political community contain the danger of generating the domination or exclusion of significant sections of society

Option C: They see globalization weakening community ties

Option D: b and c

Correct Answer: They argue that most people value their membership of a political community; they are unlikely to shift their loyalty to the human race ✔

Option A: Fragmentation

Option B: Globalization

Option C: Nationalism

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: a and b ✔

Option A: all forms of knowledge are potentially dangerous as they can lay foundations for power and domination

Option B: political perspectives which claim to have uncovered universal truths contain the danger of domination and exclusion

Option C: universal human rights culture and doctrine of humanitarian intervention may simply extend Western power over the reset of the world

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: A cross-over of a theory from domestic to international settings

Option B: High levels of interaction and interdependence, most commonly with regard to the world economy

Option C: The spread of European languages internationally

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: High levels of interaction and interdependence, most commonly with regard to the world economy ✔

Option A: The order in which states have acquired power throughout history

Option B: The international convention on order and security

Option C: Using individual human beings as units (not states), it assesses the degree of order on the basis of the delivery of certain kinds of goods for humanity as a whole

Option D: The same as international order

Correct Answer: Using individual human beings as units (not states), it assesses the degree of order on the basis of the delivery of certain kinds of goods for humanity as a whole ✔

Option A: The tendency for functional aspects of international relations to be organized around large numbers of states

Option B: The transition of a conflict from being between two states to being between several states

Option C: The practice of diplomacy by embassies to different countries

Option D: Both b and c

Correct Answer: The tendency for functional aspects of international relations to be organized around large numbers of states ✔

Option A: Any regular or discernible pattern of relationships that are stable over time, or may additionally refer to a condition that allows certain goals to be achieved

Option B: A view of international order that is concerned with peace and stability, rather than with the attainment of other values, such as justice

Option C: A distribution of power among a number (at least three) of major powers or ‘poles’

Option D: The regular patterns of interaction between states, but without implying any shared values between them. This is distinguished from the view of a ‘society’ of states

Correct Answer: A view of international order that is concerned with peace and stability, rather than with the attainment of other values, such as justice ✔

Option A: Globalization

Option B: Order

Option C: The UN

Option D: IGOs

Correct Answer: Order ✔

Option A: A system that works as a world government, with a constitution, legal system, and law enforcement

Option B: A system regulated by a dominant leader

Option C: A loose framework of global, both institution and normative that constrains conduct

Option D: Institutional pattern in the relationship between states

Correct Answer: A loose framework of global, both institution and normative that constrains conduct ✔

Option A: True

Option B: False

Option C: It depends on the theoretical approach that is used in the analysis

Option D: It depends on the historical background of the identity

Correct Answer: False ✔

Option A: Matters of human rights have a much higher profile than in earlier historical periods

Option B: Matters of human rights have never had a high profile

Option C: Matters of human rights have a lower profile than in the times of their emergence

Option D: Matters of human rights have never had a profile in International relations

Correct Answer: Matters of human rights have a much higher profile than in earlier historical periods ✔

Option A: It lacks order and is anarchical

Option B: It is a product of historical transitions of power

Option C: It is a product of new technologies that are not regulated

Option D: It appears to have negative qualities in abundance, but without any seeming coherence

Correct Answer: It appears to have negative qualities in abundance, but without any seeming coherence ✔

Option A: That authority is shifted to few political leaders in the world

Option B: That state authority is shifted to MNCs and IGOs, which are not democratically elected

Option C: That states are becoming more oppressive and losing their legitimacy with their citizens

Option D: None

Correct Answer: That state authority is shifted to MNCs and IGOs, which are not democratically elected ✔

Option A: Has to do with women’s role in the global anti-slavery movement

Option B: Is committed to the status quo

Option C: Pursues knowledge that will lead to changes in favour of a normative ideal, such as gender equality

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: Pursues knowledge that will lead to changes in favour of a normative ideal, such as gender equality ✔

Option A: Characterizes men as protectors and women as protected

Option B: Is used to justify and shape national security policies

Option C: Has been challenged by changing gender roles in contemporary warfare

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: All of the options given are correct ✔

Option A: Is based on gender-structured conceptions of appropriate work

Option B: Has led to an increase in women’s compensation worldwide

Option C: Negates the “double burden”

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: Is based on gender-structured conceptions of appropriate work ✔

Option A: Ticker

Option B: Enloe

Option C: Peterson and Runyan

Option D: None of the options given is correct

Correct Answer: Peterson and Runyan ✔

Option A: Prostitution and human trafficking

Option B: Civil wars and refugee flows

Option C: Trade and development

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: All of the options given are correct ✔

Option A: Empowers women through microcredit loans to facilitate small-scale economic development

Option B: Is gender-blind in its policies

Option C: Focuses its investment lending on women

Option D: a and c

Correct Answer: a and c ✔

Option A: The establishment of the UN Gender Development Index

Option B: The election of US Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Option C: The incorporation of “gender mainstreaming” into policy discourse

Option D: All of the options given are correct, but it depends on which feminist theory you pick

Correct Answer: All of the options given are correct, but it depends on which feminist theory you pick ✔

Option A: Created new areas of women’s advancement

Option B: Led to new challenges and dangers for women

Option C: Not changed the fundamental inequality of gender relationship in the world enough

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: All of the options given are correct ✔

Option A: Liberal

Option B: Post-modern

Option C: Environmental

Option D: Constructivist

Correct Answer: Environmental ✔

Option A: Refers to the disproportionate share of housework done by women

Option B: Dates to the 17th century

Option C: Is rooted in gendered conceptions of the distinction between public and private life

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: All of the options given are correct ✔

Option A: Male or female

Option B: Biological difference

Option C: A social construction

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: a and b ✔

Option A: Male or female

Option B: A social construction of what it means to be male or female

Option C: Biological difference

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: A social construction of what it means to be male or female ✔

Option A: Heterosexuality

Option B: Homosexuality

Option C: Multiple and/or shifting sexualities

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Recognizing the increase in global demand for women as cheap labour and care

Option B: Paid and unpaid reproductive labour and care

Option C: Lowering standards for labour worldwide

Option D: a and b

Correct Answer: a and b ✔

Option A: Liberal feminists seek to put an end to women’s exclusion/under representation in position of power and employment, radical feminists see women as different from men

Option B: Liberal feminists seek to put an end to women’s exclusion/under representation in position of power and employment, radical feminists see women’s subordination as universal taking different forms at different times

Option C: Liberal feminists see women as different from men and do not reject ‘women’s values’, radical feminists see women as different from men

Option D: Liberal feminists see women as different from men and do not reject ‘women’s values’, radical feminists see women’s subordination as universal taking different forms at different times

Correct Answer: B. Liberal feminists seek to put an end to women’s exclusion/under representation in position of power and employment, radical feminists see women’s subordination as universal taking different forms at different times ✔

Option A: The growing global demand for women’s domestic and sexual services

Option B: The growing global demand for nannies

Option C: The global economy of unpaid work

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: A. The growing global demand for women’s domestic and sexual services ✔

Option A: Feminization of labour

Option B: That women’s work includes primary responsibility of childcare and housework

Option C: Mail order brides

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: B. That women’s work includes primary responsibility of childcare and housework ✔

Option A: Women/girls come from rural areas into towns or cities to provide gendered services

Option B: An increased global flow of women

Option C: Prostitution and mail order brides

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: i

Option B: ii, iii

Option C: i, ii, iii

Option D: i, ii

Correct Answer: i ✔

Option A: a group of Israeli women demonstrating for Palestinian women.

Option B: a group of Israeli women demonstrating against Palestinian Women

Option C: a group of Palestinian demonstrating against Israeli women

Option D: None

Correct Answer: a group of Israeli women demonstrating for Palestinian women. ✔

Option A: Made no contribution to just war theory

Option B: Is a form of subnational authority

Option C: Helped constitute the normative basis of international society

Option D: Both made no contribution to just war theory and helped to constitute the normative basis of international society

Correct Answer: Helped constitute the normative basis of international society ✔

Option A: The Crusades

Option B: Exploration and colonization of the New World

Option C: The Protestant Reformation

Option D: Both exploration and colonization of the New World and The Protestant Reformation

Correct Answer: The Protestant Reformation ✔

Option A: Deny that international cooperation is possible

Option B: Believe it to be a rhetorical cover for self-serving powerful states

Option C: Argue that it is unable to cope with globalization

Option D: Believe both that it is a rhetorical cover for self-serving powerful state and argue that it is unable to cope with globalization

Correct Answer: Believe both that it is a rhetorical cover for self-serving powerful state and argue that it is unable to cope with globalization ✔

Option A: Interstate war

Option B: Global warming

Option C: American power

Option D: Dissolution of the bonds of political community

Correct Answer: Interstate war ✔

Option A: A term coined by political scientist Stephen Krasner to refer to sovereignty

Option B: The legal fiction masking power relations between states.

Option C: A caution against idealistic conceptions of international society

Option D: A term coined by political scientist Stephen Krasner to refer to sovereignty which is a caution against idealistic conceptions of international society meaning the legal fiction masking power relations between states

Correct Answer: A term coined by political scientist Stephen Krasner to refer to sovereignty ✔

Option A: Created new challenges to international society by raising the issue of nationalism

Option B: Occurred in the 19th century

Option C: Led to the creation of the Concert of Europe

Option D: Created new challenges to international society by raising the issue of nationalism while also leading to the creation of the Concert of Europe

Correct Answer: Created new challenges to international society by raising the issue of nationalism ✔

Option A: Hierarchical

Option B: Hegemonic

Option C: Imperial

Option D: Hierarchical, Hegemonic, and Imperial

Correct Answer: Hierarchical ✔

Option A: Wrote Germany’s Aims in the First World WAR

Option B: Argued that Hitler was no different from other German political leaders

Option C: Located the caused of the Second World War in Hitler’s personality

Option D: All of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: Argued that Hitler was no different from other German political leaders ✔

Option A: Nationalism

Option B: Economic crisis

Option C: The rise of a united Germany

Option D: None of the options given are correct

Correct Answer: The rise of a united Germany ✔

Option A: Britain

Option B: Russia

Option C: Portugal

Option D: France

Correct Answer: Russia ✔

Option A: Was partially determined by local or trial factors

Option B: Was constant across regions and imperial powers

Option C: Was sometimes replaces by superpower involvement

Option D: Was partially determined by local or tribal factors and was sometimes replaced by superpower involvement

Correct Answer: Was partially determined by local or tribal factors and was sometimes replaced by superpower involvement ✔