Chapter 11 Poststructuralismlene Hansen Test Bank Docx

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 01

01) Poststructuralism takes which view of identity and foreign policy?

a. Performative.

b. Performative and mutually constitutive.

c. Rationalist.

d. Mutually constitutive.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 02

02) What are the central concepts in poststructuralist philosophy?

a. Discourse, deconstruction, genealogy, and intertextuality.

b. Rational economics.

c. Institutions and cooperation.

d. Discourse, deconstruction, intertextuality.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 03

03) Why is language central to poststructuralist theory of international relations?

a. Because poststructuralism focuses on local dialects.

b. Because language decides, and communicates reality while also being the medium through which all political actors must legitimate the foreign policies they adopt.

c. Because language solely defines individuals.

d. Because language is the same as discourse.

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 04

04) Poststructuralism views language as…

a. Entirely value-neutral.

b. A system of unstable dichotomies where certain terms are superior to others.

c. Irrelevant to politics.

d. A system of stable dichotomies.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 05

05) According to poststructuralist theory, ‘state sovereignty’ is…?

a. A historical concept.

b. A value-neutral concept with an immortal essence.

c. A practice that constitutes identity and authority in a particular manner.

d. The most important political actor in an anarchic world system.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 06

06) ‘Biopower’ works at two levels: at the individual level we are told to discipline and control our bodies, and at the collective level we find that governments and other institutions seek to manage whole populations.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 07

07) According to poststructuralism, foreign policies…

a. Constitute the identity of the Self through the construction of its Other(s).

b. Should be based solely on self-interest.

c. Are unimportant to international politics.

d. Will revolve around the importance of human rights.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 08

08) According to the poststructuralist scholar Judith Butler, identity…

a. Is irrelevant.

b. Is central to showing how foreign policy will be formed.

c. Is performative and can only be constituted through repeated practices.

d. Is static and independent of practices and surroundings.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 09

09) According to poststructuralism, ‘the global’…

a. Is a political category, which can be used to replace ‘the state’.

b. Is of no concern to international politics.

c. Is the most important political category in international politics.

d. Must be engaged in a way that makes possible to rethink all the complex dichotomies around which it revolves.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 10

10) The events of 9/11 and the subsequent so-called ‘war on terror’ have:

a. Made the poststructuralist concept of territoriality redundant.

b. Challenged the poststructuralist concept of territoriality but not made them entirely redundant.

c. In some ways shown the concept of territoriality to be redundant but in other ways illustrated a ‘return’ of the concept of territoriality.

d. Made the concept of territoriality more flexible and in some ways precipitated a ‘return’ of the concept but has also challenged the poststructuralist conception of the term.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 11

11) Poststructuralism entered the field of international politics in the 1980s.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 12

12) Poststructuralism makes a distinction between Foreign Policy and foreign policy.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 13

13) The inside–outside dichotomy is stabilized by which of the following dichotomies?

a. Peace and war.

b. Reason and power.

c. Order and anarchy.

d. All of the given answers are correct.

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 14

14) Compared to constructivists, who adopt a concept of causality as structural pressure, poststructuralists hold that causality conceptualized as such is inappropriate because these structures are constituted through human action.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 15

15) Poststructuralism as a theory of international relations is based upon the four concepts of poststructuralist philosophy.

a. True

b. False