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Chapter 17 Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 01
01) ‘Securitization theory’ holds that an issue become securitized when ________.
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a. Those in power declare that it (the issue) poses a threat in one way or another.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 02
02) Who said that life in the state of nature was ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’?
a. John Locke.
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b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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c. John Rawls.
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d. Thomas Hobbes.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 03
03) In which part of the world did Freedom House recently observe a growing trend towards authoritarianism?
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a. South America.
b. Africa.
c. The Middle East.
d. Eastern Europe.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 04
04) In what way did national security play a part in determining the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential campaign?
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a. The Trump campaign claimed that Clinton had jeopardized national security by classified information via an insecure email system during her time as Secretary of State during the Obama Administration. In turn, Trump’s relationship with Putin and lack of experience in handling international affairs was portrayed as a potential security risk—a prediction that appears to have been somewhat vindicated by recent speculation over Russia’s possible collusion in the election victory.
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 05
05) The ‘outsourcing’ or privatization of security accords with conservatism.
a. True
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 06
06) The informal alliance between a nation’s military and the arms industry that supplies it (thus creating a vested interest that attempts to influence public policy) is known as ___________.
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a. The Military-industrial complex.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 07
07) Virtually all realist approaches to IR regard what as the major object of security?
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a. The sovereignty of the citizens of the state.
b. The sovereign state itself.
c. The sovereignty of the state’s government.
d. The collective sovereignty of nations.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 08
08) The UN Security Council embodies which principle stated below?
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a. Collective security.
b. Collective insecurity.
c. Creative security.
d. Interdependent security.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 09
09) The P5 of the UN Security Council is widely regarded as a reflection of a realist concern for the accommodation of power politics.
a. True
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 10
10) What does the acronym MAD stand for?
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a. Mutually assured destruction.
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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 11
11) ‘Positive peace’ is a concept which rejects the idea that peace consists merely in the absence of violent conflict, adopting a broader understanding which looks at the amelioration of conflict through cooperative social mechanisms.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 12
12) The post-Cold War period has seen greater attention paid to non-traditional issues, including which of the following?
Please select all that apply.
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a. The security implications of Third World poverty and the ‘North-South gap’.
b. The militarization of the Third World women.
c. The re-conceptualization of environmental problems as security issues.
d. The re-conceptualization of ‘energy security’ as an essentially military concern.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 13
13) The shift in emphasis from ‘state security’ to ‘human security’ in the post-Cold War period reflects …
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a. The continuing ascendancy of realist approaches to security.
b. A narrowing of the security agenda to accord with postmodern approaches.
c. A concern with the security of individual humans at the expense of wider social and economic issues.
d. None of the above.
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 14
14) The rise of Islamic radicalism and militancy is a fairly recent phenomenon, starting in the last two decades.
a. True
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b. False
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Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 17 - Question 15
15) Many commentators argue that the ‘War on Terror’ demonstrates that conventional military tactics are most effective against terrorists and insurgents in all phases of war operations.
a. True
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b. False
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