One of the following characteristics is not typical of IGOs. Which one is it?
a. Most IGOs have permanent headquarters in a major city.
b. Most IGOs have professional staffs, frequently called secretariats.
c. Most IGOs have military establishments to carry out peacekeeping operations.
d. Most IGOs provide services for the member-states that create them.
The number of international governmental organizations
a. is determined by laws passed by the United Nations.
b. depends on how many the world's states want to create, since IGOs are established by their memberstates
themselves.
c. has decreased since World War II because they played a major role in starting that war.
d. is determined by the International Court of Justice.
In a world imperial system,
a. states are empowered to set their own policies, and there is no higher authority above them.
b. two major powers share nearly coequal control over the known world.
c. human loyalties and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundaries.
d. there is a balance of power among states that serves as the primary guarantor of security.
e. one government has authority over most of the world with which it has contact.
Which of the following is an accurate description of the feudal system of world politics?
a. Human loyalties and political obligations are fixed primarily via personal relationships rather than territorial boundaries.
b. One government has authority over most of the world with which it has contact.
c. It is composed of states that are relatively cohesive but with no higher government above them.
d. It is composed of states that are relatively cohesive and are led by a single higher government.
e. There is a balance of power among states that serves as the primary guarantor of security.
What is economic interdependence?
a. the belief that states should become as strong as they can be economically on their
own
b. the reality that fewer and fewer states are economically self-sufficient, and
more and more must purchase necessities beyond their own borders
c. the ideology that advanced capitalist countries, because of their economic
structures, will exploit and take advantage of underdeveloped states
d. the awareness that resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and economic
competition for those resources is increasing
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