What technological advances have provided positive benefits to the global community?
a. Agro-ecological innovations that enhance food production
b. Medical advances that cure and prevent diseases that were once prevalent
c. Alternative energy sources
d. All of these have provided positive benefits to the global community.
Which of the following is NOT a consequence of globalization?
a. Elimination of conflict
b. Constraints on foreign policy behavior for those who are plugged into the network of global transactions
c. Global interdependence
d. Difficulty maintaining political will to support global initiatives
Globalization and the emergence of a common cosmopolitan culture has reduced feelings of _____.
a. independence
b. identity
c. autonomy
d. All of these are true.
Unlike many of the hard sciences (such as physics or chemistry) the study of world politics
a. is not recognized as scientific.
b. focuses on specification, never generalization.
c. has no set of uniform, deterministic laws to precisely predict actions.
d. can never be useful in predicting future actions.
Which of the following best describes the general agreement of the scholarly community about the study of international politics?
a. History speaks with sufficient continuity to make the scientific study of international politics possible andmeaningful.
b. All scholars are in agreement about the superiority of liberalism to Marxism or communism.
c. There are few causal mechanisms at work in world politics.
d. All of these are true.