Which of the following best describes issue-advocacy NGOs?
a. They often have celebrities to represent their causes and gain political attention.
b. They are relatively weak on issues that involve military security.
c. They have more success persuading governments to inaction than they do making major policy changes.
d. All of these are true.
Regarding MNCs and human rights conditions in their host country
a. MNCs are only concerned with profit; they are not concerned with human rights.
b. the governments of the home country of the MNCs are responsible for making sure MNCs do not violatehuman rights in their hiring and labor practices.
c. MNCs are increasingly sensitive to human rights conditions because a greater respect for human rightstranslates into reduced political risk and a more productive workforce.
d. the primary purpose of many MNCs is to improve human rights around the globe.
The term irredentism refers to
a. the attempt by an ethnic group to reclaim territory by force so that the group is no longer separated by stateboundaries.
b. the departure of religious minorities from their countries of origin to escape persecution.
c. minority communities who live abroad but retain political ties to their homelands.
d. majority rule over ethnic minorities.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of radical religious moments?
a. They are universalist.
b. They are exclusionist.
c. They are militant.
d. They focus more on spiritual, rather than secular, concerns such as social welfare.
Which of the following is true about a theocracy?
a. The country's government is organized around a religious dogma.
b. Religion and state are separate and distinguishable.
c. In order for the state to thrive, it subordinates itself to the religion.
d. None has ever existed.
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