Test Bank Docx The Historical Context Chapter 2

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 01

01) This chapter defines 'international order' as the merging of distinct political communities into one.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 02

02) The emergence of intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations is a main consequence of the global transformation.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 03

03) The contemporary international order features a number of key actors, including nation-states, transnational corporations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 04

04) The racial categorizations of the ‘standard of civilization’ formed the basis for the Western rules of war, which distinguished between ‘privileged belligerents’ and ‘unprivileged belligerents’.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 05

05) Interdependence refers to a global intensification in the circulation of people, ideas, and resources.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 06

06) What caused China’s decline during the nineteenth century?

a. Its economic crippling under British imperialism.

b. Domestic political instability.

c. A series of unequal treaties following its losses in wars with Western powers.

d. All of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 07

07) What is ‘sovereign territoriality’?

a. The control by kings or queens of their castles and surrounding land.

b. A claim to political authority over a particular geographical space.

c. A claim to political authority that can only be exercised in a monarchy.

d. None of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 08

08) Which of the following is a form of ‘regularized practices of exchange’?

a. Economic interactions.

b. Systems of transport.

c. Systems of communication.

d. All of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 09

09) Which two infrastructural gains underpinned the division of labour between an industrial ‘core’ and a commodity-producing ‘periphery’ that first emerged in the nineteenth century?

a. Railways and steamships.

b. Railways and the telegraph.

c. Steamships and the telegraph.

d. Steamships and the construction of national road systems.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 10

10) All of the following are critiques of the dominant Westphalian narrative, except…

a. It was a local affair, not a European-wide agreement.

b. The gains of Westphalia were actually relatively slight.

c. Westphalia allowed polities to choose their own religion at any point in the future.

d. Westphalia actually set limits to the principle of sovereignty established at the 1555 Peace of Augsburg.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 11

11) How did industrialization contribute to the ‘great divergence’?

a. It helped to produce a dramatic expansion of the world market, which brought new opportunities for accumulating power.

b. Industrialization in the West was accompanied by deindustrialization elsewhere.

c. It encouraged the British to adopt tariffs and other protectionist trade policies that promoted British goods while discriminating against those produced in India.

d. All of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 12

12) Which term refers to the belief that it is possible and desirable to establish a political hierarchy based on biological markers?

a. ‘Cultural’ racism.

b. Settler colonialism.

c. ‘Social’ racism.

d. ‘Scientific’ racism.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 13

13) ‘Rational state’ refers to…

a. The ways in which states become organized less through interpersonal relations and family ties, and more by abstract bureaucracies such as a civil service and a nationally organized military.

b. The assumption that states are self-interested actors.

c. The adoption of a democratic form of governance.

d. All of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 – Question 14

14) What was the ‘great divergence’?

a. The split between parts of the world that promoted regional order and parts of the world that sought more truly international order.

b. The global power disparity that emerged between East and West during the nineteenth century.

c. The stark difference in the speed of communications between the pre-industrial and industrial eras.

d. None of the options given are correct.

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 15

15) When did international order originate?

a. 13,000–14,000 years ago, in Sumer.

b. In 1648, with the Peace of Westphalia.

c. Over the last two centuries, when various regional systems were forged into a deeply interdependent, global international order.

d. All of the options given are correct; scholars have argued for each of these positions.