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Question 1:

Which terminology is used to identify the established patterns or foundational principles ‘by which societies are organized into polities’?
a) Global processes
b) Global ruptures
c) World orders
d) Historical orders
e) Social order

Question 2:

Which of the following is/are true of ‘world orders’?
a) They are created through human agency.
b) They are historical in nature.
c) They are political in nature.
d) Both a and b.
e) All of the above.

Question 3:

Which of the following scholars developed a heuristic model for understanding global change more so than any other contemporary thinker?
a) Antonio Gramsci
b) Karl Marx
c) Robert Cox
d) Michel Foucault
e) Samuel Huntington

Question 4:

Changes in the global system which result in no change to the overall pattern of global order are also known as '________'.
a) epiphenomena
b) minor changes
c) epic changes
d) no change
e) status quo

Question 5:

According to Cox, which of the following indicates that the Cold War never actually ended?
a) The continuation of certain structures, such as intelligence services
b) Abundant supplies of small arms shipped from the US, Russia, and other major powers to countries in the developing world
c) A biosphere that remains under constant threat
d) All of the above.
e) None of the above.

Question 6:

Which of the following is considered by some to be the continuation of a pre-1945 set of events?
a) The Balkans War in the 1990s
b) The first Gulf War
c) The Cold War
d) The Iraq–Iran War
e) The War on Terror

Question 7:

Why is the Cold War era considered by many to be a disjuncture in world politics, an aberration?
a) Because of the perceived continuity of the pre-1945 inter-state relations
b) Because of increasing instability
c) Because of super-power rivalry
d) Because of the chaos and turbulence that marked the era
e) All of the above.

Question 8:

According to Anne-Marie Slaughter, which of the following would form the building blocks of a new post-Cold War world order?
a) Trans-governmental activities
b) The balance of power
c) Stateless societies
d) Unilateralism
e) None of the above.

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Global Politics: Chapter Four