INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Mid Term

__1. The complaint about ______________________ seems to suggest that there should be international or global control
or government over economies and politics.
A. Zero sum game
B. International anarchy
C. Globalization
D. Globalism
__2. The argument counter to market forces that if there is a winner there must be a loser is known as
A. Zero sum game
B. International anarchy
C. Globalization
D. Globalism
__3. ____________ is the case that economies increasingly transcend national borders.
A. Zero sum game
B. International anarchy
C. Globalization
D. Globalism
__4. _____________ offers the suggestion that there should be international entities to control international economic and political forces.
A. Zero sum game
B. International anarchy
C. Globalization
D. Globalism
__5. ________________ ‘s argument that there was a ‘clash of civilizations’ seems to overlook the reality that many in the Muslim world
want the same things those other people strive for and might better be termed a ‘clash for civilization.’
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. John Locke
C. Edmund Burke
D. Samuel Huntington
E. Alfred Mahan
__6. His argument centered on the notion that government must be big and powerful to control the evil propensities of human beings.
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. John Locke
C. Edmund Burke
D. Samuel Huntington
E. Alfred Mahan
__7. Argued that government is created by man in a contract with powers that should be limited to doing
only those things that protect the natural rights of man.
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. John Locke
C. Edmund Burke
D. Samuel Huntington
E. Alfred Mahan
__8. Contended that expansion of government would reduce personal responsibility and civic virtue.
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. John Locke
C. Edmund Burke
D. Samuel Huntington
E. Alfred Mahan
__9. His study showing that all great historical trading powers have had great navies led to the U.S. building the world’s strongest Navy.
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. John Locke
C. Edmund Burke
D. Samuel Huntington
E. Alfred Mahan
__10. The idea that there is no absolute and that one practice should be considered as good as others is known as _______________________.
A. Moral relativism
B. Cultural relativism
C. Cultural appropriation
D. Cultural imperialism
__11. _____________________ supposedly means one people using practices of another.
A. Moral relativism
B. Cultural relativism
C. Cultural appropriation
D. Cultural imperialism
__12. Taco Bell or Little Caesars might be defined as
A. Moral relativism
B. Cultural relativism
C. Cultural appropriation
D. Cultural imperialism
__13. Control of another society’s norms and mores and practices is known as _______________________.
A. Moral relativism
B. Cultural relativism
C. Cultural appropriation
D. Cultural imperialism
__14. ____________________ would suggest that inferior treatment of women in some societies is defensible.
A. Moral relativism
B. Cultural relativism
C. Cultural appropriation
D. Cultural imperialism
__15. Primarily Shia terrorist organization that controls much of southern Lebanon.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__16. Primarily Sunni terrorist group in control of Gaza.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__17. Begun with US efforts to combat Russian war to control Afghanistan.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__18. The radical Islamic group that US and allied forces in Afghanistan have been fighting against for more than a quarter century.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__19. Osama bin Laden’s group that worked with us against Russia and then turned on those who opposed their extremist ideas and was responsible for 911.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__20. Recent radical Sunni group that wants to create a caliphate and grew out of al Qaeda in Iraq when we precipitously pulled out a few years ago.
A. Taliban
B. Mujahideen
C. Al Qaeda
D. ISIS
E. Hamas
F. Hezbollah
__21. Once considered part of what was called the Third World, countries that have made strides at industrial development are now termed _________________________.
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__22. Once considered part of what was called the Third World, countries which are still not developing are usually termed ______________________________.
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__23. The investment of capital from persons in one nation into other countries is called
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__24. The US is the world’s largest investor of this in other nations.
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__25. The US is the world’s largest recipient of this from other countries.
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__26. A poorly defined and usually misidentified term for armaments that can be very destructive.
A. NICs
B. LDCs
C. WMDs
D. FDI
__27. This centuries old empire was allied as a Central Power in WWI but was broken up by Woodrow Wilson after the war
into countries including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, and others.
A. Persia
B. Ottoman
C. Austro-Hungary
D. Shah
__28. The ruler of Iran from the US backed coup against Mossadegh’s socialist regime in 1954
until Carter backed radical Islamic regime led by Khomeini replaced him in 1979.
A. Persia
B. Ottoman
C. Austro-Hungary
D. Shah
__29. The foundation of most US foreign policy from 1945 until 1989 to stop the spread of communism and socialism is known as the ______________________.
A. MAD
B. Truman Doctrine
C. Containment
D. Cold War
__30. Another term for these policies to stop the spread of communism is _____________________.
A. MAD
B. Truman Doctrine
C. Containment
D. Cold War
__31. The long struggle between communism and the west is referred to as this because it did not become an all out general war.
A. MAD
B. Truman Doctrine
C. Containment
D. Cold War
__32. The existence of nuclear weapons often called this may be the major reason it did not become a general war.
A. MAD
B. Truman Doctrine
C. Containment
D. Cold War
__33. The uprising of so-called Palestinians mostly in Gaza in late 1987 is known as ____________________.
A. Yom Kippur War
B. Intifada
C. Opium Wars
D. Currency war
__34. The Quantitative Easing massive expansion of US currency by the Federal Reserve under Obama lead to devaluation and disorder in countries
around the Mediterranean including Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and others and this has been referred to as a _________________.
A. Yom Kippur War
B. Intifada
C. Opium Wars
D. Currency war
__35. Repeated efforts by the British Empire to subvert resistance to their take over of China with drug trade are called the _____________________.
A. Yom Kippur War
B. Intifada
C. Opium Wars
D. Currency war
__36. The 1973 surprise attack by Arab nations beaten back by Israel is called the ________________________.
A. Yom Kippur War
B. Intifada
C. Opium Wars
D. Currency war
__37. The Great Depression did not reach double digit unemployment under the US instigated a trade war with this in 1930,
and it did not go below double digit until WWII.
A. Crony capitalism
B. Corporatism
C. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D. Capital flight
__38. Anti-investment policies of governments such as over-regulation and exorbitant taxation result in
A. Crony capitalism
B. Corporatism
C. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D. Capital flight
__39. Government determination of economic winners and losers leads to a symbiotic relationship that become almost incestuous which is called _______________________.
A. Crony capitalism
B. Corporatism
C. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D. Capital flight
__40. The form of collectivist statism where government combines with to control the private sector is called ____________________.
A. Crony capitalism
B. Corporatism
C. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D. Capital flight
__41. A prevailing way of analysis that dominates a field or discipline is known as a ____________________.
A. Tribalism
B. Secularism
C. Protectionism
D. Socialism
E. Paradigm
__42. Economic policies said to block foreign goods and forces by shielding a country’s domestic economy from foreign competition
by taxing/tariffs or regulating imports is known as ______________.
A. Tribalism
B. Secularism
C. Protectionism
D. Socialism
E. Paradigm
__43. The decline of sovereign state power can result is stratification of a society or economy into small groups that are not
economically viable and is sometimes referred to as ____________________.
A. Tribalism
B. Secularism
C. Protectionism
D. Socialism
E. Paradigm
__44. Various forms of collective control of the factors or means of production which results in declining development are referred to as ______________________.
A. Tribalism
B. Secularism
C. Protectionism
D. Socialism
E. Paradigm
__45. Formal separation of state and societal control from religious institutions and practices is called ___________________________.
A. Tribalism
B. Secularism
C. Protectionism
D. Socialism
E. Paradigm
46. The theory in international relations which purports to emphasize power relationships and national interests is known as ___________________________.
A. Utopianism
B. Realism
C. Constructivism
D. Collective interest
__47. Argues that subjective understandings rather than objective reality are what determine policy,
that mental constructs formed by social interaction and convention, govern thinking.
A. Utopianism
B. Realism
C. Constructivism
D. Collective interest
__48. Variations of thought committed to supposed perfectibility of man and society largely by government policy are known as _________________________.
A. Utopianism
B. Realism
C. Constructivism
D. Collective interest
__49. An idea that some sort of 'groupthink' of what a set of people think can be determined.
A. Utopianism
B. Realism
C. Constructivism
D. Collective interest
__50. Sometimes disparagingly called Idealism, and suggests that interrelationships among nations can lead them to act peacefully.
A. Interdependence
B. Tyranny of the majority
C. Liberalism
D. Classical liberalism
__51. Based on such as Adam Smith, contends that economies correct themselves without government intervention and supervision,
and that, in fact, government action aggravates economic problems.
A. Interdependence
B. Tyranny of the majority
C. Liberalism
D. Classical liberalism
__52. The concept in classical liberal thought that markets force countries to live more peacefully as they rely on one another more.
A. Interdependence
B. Tyranny of the majority
C. Liberalism
D. Classical liberalism
__53. The concept in political theory that limited government must include protections against simple democratic control
which can lead to the violation of individual rights to prevent this.
A. Interdependence
B. Tyranny of the majority
C. Liberalism
D. Classical liberalism
__54. Contemporary idea that economic interdependence requires international organizations, but they may not be democratic and are hardly then ‘liberal.’
A. Limited constitutional republic
B. Neo-liberalism
C. Planned economy
D. Isolationism
__55. The idea behind US constitution to prevent a despotic majority from violating individual rights by limiting the power of government.
A. Limited constitutional republic
B. Neo-liberalism
C. Planned economy
D. Isolationism
__56. Idea that government can manipulate the economy and growth for the common good.
A. Limited constitutional republic
B. Neo-liberalism
C. Planned economy
D. Isolationism
__57. Concept that a country can cut itself off from foreign political and economic forces.
A. Limited constitutional republic
B. Neo-liberalism
C. Planned economy
D. Isolationism
__58. A reduction of potential conflict between or among countries.
A. Détente
B. War Powers Act
C. Neo-cons
D. Corporatism
E. Legislative veto
__59. Collectivist economic system of fascism.
A. Détente
B. War Powers Act
C. Neo-cons
D. Corporatism
E. legislative veto
__60. Term meant to disparage those who argue for military force against aggressors on the unintended consequences of their ‘idealistic’ thinking.
A. Détente
B. War Powers Act
C. Neo-cons
D. Corporatism
E. Legislative veto
__61. 1975 law passed by Democrat Congress to require that any time a President commits troops,
he must notify Congress and they have the power to order them removed.
A. Détente
B. War Powers Act
C. Neo-cons
D. Corporatism
E. Legislative Veto
__62. The courts have ruled that if Congress authorizes expenditures, it cannot rescind that authorization but would have to not authorize it again
in an upcoming budget year, thus making it unconstitutional for Congress to authorize
military actions and then attempt to undo that in the same year. A. Détente
B. War Powers Act
C. Neo-cons
D. Corporatism
E. Legislative Veto


56- 62 A
48- 55 B
40- 47 C
39-39 D





FINAL

__1. A concession to satisfy hostile aggressive country is known as
A. Munich Accord
B. Open Door Policy
C. Meiji Restoration
D. Appeasement
__2. The intercession by US President William McKinley that blocked efforts by the British and other European powers
to carve up China into Spheres of Influence much as they had partitioned Africa is known as
A. Munich Accord
B. Open Door Policy
C. Meiji Restoration
D. Appeasement
__3. The agreement made by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin with Hitler to let him have the land
he had taken on his promise not to take more is known as
A. Munich Accord
B. Open Door Policy
C. Meiji Restoration
D. Appeasement
__4. When a new emperor ended the Tokagawa Era of feudalism and set Japan on a course of free markets,
industrialization, and constitutional democracy is known as
A. Munich Accord
B. Open Door Policy
C. Meiji Restoration
D. Appeasement
__5. Reagan’s program to build laser and particle beam defense against missile attacks is called
A. Disarmament
B. Deterrence
C. SDI
D. EU
__6. Attempts to reduce military forces which have generally occurred before wars such as WWI are termed
A. Disarmament
B. Deterrence
C. SDI
D. EU
__7. The attempt to unify Europe under a common government and economy after the Treaty of Maastricht is called the
A. Disarmament
B. Deterrence
C. SDI
D. EU
__8. Military force sufficient to prevent attack from other countries is termed
A. Disarmament
B. Deterrence
C. SDI
D. EU
__9. A supposedly stable trusted money of a major country or other entity used as a basis for currency exchange and trade
A. Bretton Woods Agreement
B. IMF
C. Fixed exchange rate system
D. Reserve currency
__10. The fixed exchange rate system to stabilize currencies after WWII is known as
A. Bretton Woods Agreement
B. IMF
C. Fixed exchange rate system
D. Reserve currency
__11. An agreement to set currency values tied to reserve currency is known as a
A. Bretton Woods Agreement
B. IMF
C. Fixed exchange rate system
D. Reserve currency
__12. This was created as an international entity to oversee currency exchange after WWII
A. Bretton Woods Agreement
B. IMF
C. Fixed exchange rate system
D. Reserve currency
__13. The concept in economics that suggests one place is better able to produce certain goods
A. Comparative advantage
B. Outsourcing
C. Keynesian
D. Deflation
E. Inflation
__14. A general decline in the value of a currency
A. Comparative advantage
B. Outsourcing
C. Keynesian
D. Deflation
E. Inflation
__15. A general decrease in money supply
A. Comparative advantage
B. Outsourcing
C. Keynesian
D. Deflation
E. Inflation
__16. Economic theory based on the idea that growing government will expand the economy and ignore the reality of where government gets its revenue
A. Comparative advantage
B. Outsourcing
C. Keynesian
D. Deflation
E. Inflation
__17. Economic phenomena in which businesses relocate their operations to places where they will be more profitable
A. Comparative advantage
B. Outsourcing
C. Keynesian
D. Deflation
E. Inflation
__18. The idea that governments can institute policies that isolate their countries from unfair or more economical competition
A. NAFTA
B. Protectionism
C. Trade deficit
D. Debtor nation
E. totalitarianism
__19. This was created as a free trade effort but actually put the economies of the US, Mexico, and Canada under unelected bureaucracies to control them
A. NAFTA
B. Protectionism
C. Trade deficit
D. Debtor nation
E. totalitarianism
__20. A political system or theory that seeks to exercise complete control over the people or economy of a nation
A. NAFTA
B. Protectionism
C. Trade deficit
D. Debtor nation
E. totalitarianism
__21. A nation which has more investment from foreign sources into it than it makes in other nations
A. NAFTA
B. Protectionism
C. Trade deficit
D. Debtor nation
E. totalitarianism
__22. Excess of value of goods and services traded into a country over what is exports
A. NAFTA
B. Protectionism
C. Trade deficit
D. Debtor nation
E. totalitarianism
__23. An agreement that was supposed to reduce barriers to trade among nations
A. WTO
B. GATT
C. TPP
D. NAFTA
__24. UN agency that supposedly tried to promote trade by lowering protectionism
A. WTO
B. GATT
C. TPP
D. NAFTA
__25. Agreement that established international control over trade among Pacific nations under the guise of free trade
A. WTO
B. GATT
C. TPP
D. NAFTA
__26. SEC regulation by which government attempted to set valuation of assets, and which helped precipitate the economic crisis in 2008
A. Mark to market
B. Mark to maturity
C. Buycks Robeson vs Citibank
D. Community Redevelopment Act
E. FAS 157
__27. Lawsuit filed by Obama and others when he worked for SEIU and ACORN seeking to force financial institutions to give mortgages
to poor people which they often could not repay and which helped create the housing bubble that burst in 2008
A. Mark to market
B. Mark to maturity
C. Buycks Robeson vs Citibank
D. Community Redevelopment Act
E. FAS 157
__28. Setting value of assets to their current value
A. Mark to market
B. Mark to maturity
C. Buycks Robeson vs Citibank
D. Community Redevelopment Act
E. FAS 157
__29. Setting the value of assets to some expected value by such accounting techniques as future value because of inflation, productivity, growth, etc.
A. Mark to market
B. Mark to maturity
C. Buycks Robeson vs Citibank
D. Community Redevelopment Act
E. FAS 157
__30. Law passed during Carter Administration to increase powers of government/SEC to supposedly stop redlining
but led to government attempts to regulate asset valuation and mortgages among other things
A. Mark to market
B. Mark to maturity
C. Buycks Robeson vs Citibank
D. Community Redevelopment Act
E. FAS 157
__31. The ‘democratic socialist’ president of Chile allied to Castro who was overthrown by the military with CIA help in 1973.
A. Pinochet
B. Salvadore Allende
C. Antonio Guterres
D. Haile Salassie
__32. The emperor of Ethiopia descended from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba overthrown by communists in 1974.
A. Pinochet
B. Salvadore Allende
C. Antonio Guterres
D. Haile Salassie
__33. Former socialist leader of Portugal who is current Secretary General of the United Nations
A. Pinochet
B. Salvadore Allende
C. Antonio Guterres
D. Haile Salassie
__34. General who overthrew Allende
A. Pinochet
B. Salvadore Allende
C. Antonio Guterres
D. Haile Salassie
__35. Set up among leaders of nations and increasing used to replace treaties because they are easier to set up but more easily overturned
A. Executive agreements
B. Functionalism
C. Net neutrality
D. Third way
__36. Misleading name for policy that gives government control over the web on pretense that it should force anyone online
to offer information about competing ideas or other alternatives
A. Executive agreements
B. Functionalism
C. Net neutrality
D. Third way
__37. A supposed alternative between socialism and free markets promoted by such as Tony Blaine, the Clintons, Obama, etc.
which amounts to steady compromise to accept more government
A. Executive agreements
B. Functionalism
C. Net neutrality
D. Third way
__38. Gaining countries cooperation in specialized matters that spills over into general cooperation controlled by unelected bureaucrats
A. Executive agreements
B. Functionalism
C. Net neutrality
D. Third way
__39. Part of UN in which all member nations have one vote
A. Security Council
B. General Assembly
C. Secretary General
D. Secretariat
__40. Consists of 15 members, five permanent and 10 which rotate. The US, UK, France, Russia, and China as permanent members have veto power
A. Security Council
B. General Assembly
C. Secretary General
D. Secretariat
__41. The chief administrative officer of the UN
A. Security Council
B. General Assembly
C. Secretary General
D. Secretariat
__42. The myriad of international agencies operating under the umbrella of UN auspices
A. Security Council
B. General Assembly
C. Secretary General
D. Secretariat
__43. Term applied to international regulatory agencies
A. IPCC
B. NGOs
C. WHO
D. Velvet Revolution
__44. UN agency that has propagated the climate change scare
A. IPCC
B. NGOs
C. WHO
D. Velvet Revolution
__45. The quiet nearly bloodless collapse of communism in eastern Europe
A. IPCC
B. NGOs
C. WHO
D. Velvet Revolution
__46. UN agency that operated health and medical programs
A. IPCC
B. NGOs
C. WHO
D. Velvet Revolution
__47. Term applied to the scientific advance in hybrid food production that has increased food supplies around the world
but it is also sometimes a term used to describe radical Islamic regimes.
A. Sahel
B. Green Revolution
C. Precautionary Principle
D. Cap and trade
E. Third world
__48. Area of west Africa that is semi-arid but has very rich soil which with irrigation could become a bread basket
A. Sahel
B. Green Revolution
C. Precautionary Principle
D. Cap and trade
E. Third world
__49. Idea that policies need to address perceived crises before it is too late without consideration of the impact of those policies
A. Sahel
B. Green Revolution
C. Precautionary Principle
D. Cap and trade
E. Third world
__50. The developing world
A. Sahel
B. Green Revolution
C. Precautionary Principle
D. Cap and trade
E. Third world
__51. Government policies taxing carbon output
A. Sahel
B. Green Revolution
C. Precautionary Principle
D. Cap and trade
E. Third world
__52. Hit and run warfare derived from the Spanish word for war
A. fracking
B. SDRs
C. G7
D. G20
E. guerilla
__53. Injection of liquid like water to help free oil and gas from subterranean locations
A. fracking
B. SDRs
C. G7
D. G20
E. guerilla
__54. The seven largest economies that long controlled the IMF
A. fracking
B. SDRs
C. G7
D. G20
E. guerilla
__55. As nations have developed giving them more votes and power in the IMF comparatively to what they once had when it was dominated
by a few western nations, this has increasingly become meeting where more countries
debate world finance and development
A. fracking
B. SDRs
C. G7
D. G20
E. guerilla
__56. Muslim renaissance around 1000 AD, that sparked learning, science, universities, medicine in Persia, Iraq, etc. and led the European renaissance.
A. Katanga
B. Joseph Sese Seku Mobutu
C. Maduro
D. Timurid
¬¬__57. Resource rich province in southern Congo whose attempted secession led to a civil war there
A. Katanga
B. Joseph Sese Seku Mobutu
C. Maduro
D. Timurid
__58. Socialist dictator of Venezuela
A. Katanga
B. Joseph Sese Seku Mobutu
C. Maduro
D. Timurid
__59. After the communist premier of Congo was assassinated, he ruled Congo/Zaire ruthlessly for decades
A. Katanga
B. Joseph Sese Seku Mobutu
C. Maduro
D. Timurid
__60. General term for requirements imposed for loans on member states by IMF
A. Appropriate technology
B. Agrarian reform
C. Conditionalities
D. Deep state
E. Population control
__61. One of the most egregious requirements for IMF loans involved limited countries to technology that fit
their level of development and thereby blocked them from real development
A. Appropriate technology
B. Agrarian reform
C. Conditionalities
D. Deep state
E. Population control
__62. IMF enforced redistribution of wealth and land that led to countries producing less and often causing famine
A. Appropriate technology
B. Agrarian reform
C. Conditionalities
D. Deep state
E. Population control
__63. In order to receive their loans and loans from others, IMF sat up clinics in countries that required birth control,
abortion, sterilization (tubes tied, vasectomies) of people.
A. Appropriate technology
B. Agrarian reform
C. Conditionalities
D. Deep state
E. Population control
__64. Bureaucracies to regulate business and life set up by progressives and socialists made of supposed ‘experts’
who are unelected and resist efforts of elected officials with whom they disagree
A. Appropriate technology
B. Agrarian reform
C. Conditionalities
D. Deep state
E. Population control


58-64 A
51-57 B
44-60 C
53-59 D