Deck 4: Nations and States: Past, Present, and Future

Question 1

____________ is the world's newest state.

A) Palau
B) South Sudan
C) East Timor
D) Eritrea

Answer 1

South Sudan

Question 2

Which of the following is not a characteristic of nations?

A) demographic and cultural traits
B) level of income
C) a feeling of community
D) control their political fate

Answer 2

level of income

Question 3

___________ refers to the process of transforming the shared collective identity that we associate with the nation into a political ideology.

A) Political culture
B) Political agency
C) Nationalism
D) Statehood

Answer 3

Nationalism

Question 4

Former U.S. President _________________ once said, "I am an American, a Texan, and a Democrat-in that order."

A) Barack Obama
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 5

A _____________ is the ideal realization of self-determination in the overlap of the nation and state.

A) national unity
B) nation building
C) associated statehood
D) nation-state

Question 6

Which of the following is not a state that failed to achieve the ideal of the nation-state?

A) South Sudan
B) Moldova
C) Afghanistan
D) Saint Lucia

Question 7

The king of the Franks ________________ (742-814 CE) gained control over most of western and central Europe.

A) 2 Merovech
B) Charlemagne
C) Clovis II
D) Theudebald

Question 8

The Eighty Years' Wars was from ________________.

A) 1568-1648
B) 1645- 1725
C) 1618-1698
D) 1521-1601

Question 9

Which of these was a result of the Great Schism of 1054?

A) The 30-years war.
B) The formation of the universalistic Roman Empire.
C) The formation of the Roman Catholic and Constantinople Orthodox churches.
D) The creation of what we know today as the nation-state.

Question 10

The concept of the nation was not fully realized until the _____________________.

A) Age of Discovery
B) Renaissance
C) Great Schism
D) Enlightenment

Question 11

The Thirty Years' Wars was from ________________.

A) 1590-1620
B) 1645- 1675
C) 1618-1648
D) 1521-1551

Question 12

Until the late 1700s, popular sovereignty was confined to the following countries except for _______________.

A) Switzerland
B) England
C) Spain
D) Belgium

Question 13

The phrase used by early revolutionaries that refers to new governments deriving their "just powers from the consent of the governed" is reflected in the__________________.

A) French Revolution
B) Spanish Revolution
C) The American Revolution
D) German Revolution

Question 14

The ideas and application of popular sovereignty gain global traction because of the ______________ and the _______________.

A) Spanish Revolution; German Revolution
B) English Revolution; American Revolution
C) American Revolution; French Revolution
D) Russian Revolution and Austrian Revolution

Question 15

_______________ could be described as a strong sense of cultural and political identity among a people with the formation of the nation preceding that of the state.

A) Self-determination
B) National legitimacy
C) Unification nationalism
D) National unity

Question 16

The last of the huge multiethnic empires to collapse was the _________________.

A) Han Dynasty
B) British Empire
C) Soviet Union
D) Holy Roman Empire

Question 17

The doctrine of popular sovereignty is a by-product of _____________.

A) political liberalism
B) political integration
C) political realism
D) political liberation

Question 18

The idea of the social contract was developed by all the following, except __________.

A) Thomas Hobbes
B) David Hume
C) John Locke
D) Immanuel Kant

Question 19

Once the ethnic group's prevailing opinion is distinct politically as well as culturally, it becomes _______________.

A) an ethnonational group
B) a nations-state
C) a political unit
D) a community

Question 20

Nationalism helped end the political division of the Japanese islands among the daimyo (feudal nobles) during the ________________.

A) Sh?wa era
B) Meiji era
C) Tokugawa Shogunate
D) Taish? period

Question 21

The second wave of democratization as denoted by political scientist Samuel Huntington occurred in the __________________ and ________________.

A) 1970s; 1980s
B) 1980s;1990s
C) 1940s; 1950s
D) 1950s; 1960s.

Question 22

_________________ is when our nationalist sense of difference and separateness can limit our sense of responsibility or concern for the "other".

A) Nativism
B) Exceptionalism
C) Xenophobia
D) Parochialism

Question 23

In The Rights of Man, liberal philosopher ______________ depicted the nation and democracy as inherently linked in the popularly governed nation-state.

A) Thomas Paine
B) John Stuart Mill
C) Friedrich Hayek
D) Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 24

________________ is the belief that it is acceptable to conquer or otherwise incorporate other nations out of a place of perceived superiority and insecurity.

A) Colonialism
B) Imperialism
C) Nationalism
D) Nativism

Question 25

Self-determination contributed to the decline and fall of the Spanish empire in the ___________.

A) 1700s
B) 1800s
C) 1600s
D) 1900s

Question 26

In the 1990s the international community was involved with post-conflict reconstruction and state-building efforts in all these countries except for __________________.

A) Somalia
B) Bosnia-Herzegovina
C) Rwanda
D) South Sudan

Question 27

The Rwandan genocide was in __________.

A) 1994
B) 1996
C) 1990
D) 1992

Question 28

The idea of being American and the creation of an American state began in the _________________.

A) 1600s
B) 1900s
C) 1700s.
D) 1990s

Question 29

The belief that your nation is better than others is called ____________________________________.

A) national pride
B) exceptionalism
C) nativism
D) xenophobia

Question 30

Which one of these ethnic groups is not South Sudanese?

A) Dinka
B) Nuer
C) Tswana
D) Bari

Question 31

All of these are arguments for nationalism except______________.

A) it can promote economic growth
B) it can discourage imperialism
C) it can promote democracy
D) it can promote parochialism

Question 32

During an address to the Fiftieth UN General Assembly in 1995 ________________ acknowledged the two faces of nationalism.

A) President Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
B) Pope John Paul II
C) Jigme Singye Wangchuck, former King of Bhutan
D) Bill Clinton, former President of the U.S.

Question 33

In 2018 Freedom House noted that since World War II, the proportion of the world's countries that are considered free has increased from ________ in 1950 to ________ in 2018.

A) 25%; 50%
B) 30%; 55%
C) 28%; 45%
D) 20%;40%

Question 34

The Rwandan genocide was in the 1990s was due to attacks on the ______________ by the ___________.

A) Tutsis; Hutus
B) Banyarwanda; Wahinda
C) Kiga people; Barundi
D) Nyiginya; Bafumbira

Question 35

___________ of the world's countries have populations smaller than that of Los Angeles, CA.

A) One-half
B) One-quarter
C) One-third
D) One-fifth

Question 36

During the Euromaidan revolution in __________ corrupt President ___________ was removed.

A) Tunisia; Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
B) Yemen; Ali Muhammad Mujawar
C) Ukraine; Viktor Yanukovych
D) Egypt; Hosni Mubarak

Question 37

West Germany and East Germany reunited in _______________.

A) 1993
B) 1989
C) 1992
D) 1990

Question 38

The USSR dissolved in December of _____________.

A) 1993
B) 1991
C) 1992
D) 1990

Question 39

_____________ is rooted in a rejection of globalization, resistance to immigrants and refugees, and distrust and suspicion of institutions.

A) Cultural Discrimination and Oppression
B) Imperialism
C) Authoritarian populism
D) Nativism

Question 40

The Hanseatic League consisted of which of the following ___________?

A) the mercantilist city-states
B) the league of nations
C) allied nations of World War II
D) sovereign states and IGOs post-World II

Question 41

The estimated deaths in the current civil war (from mid-2013) in South Sudan is over ______________.

A) 300, 000
B) 500, 000
C) 200, 000
D) 400, 000

Question 42

______________ has come to reflect the so-called "resource curse" (Ross, 2015) in South Sudan.

A) Timber
B) Silver
C) Gold
D) Oil

Question 43

The economies of scale associated with the state were a boon to the emerging system of capitalism in the ___________ and ____________ centuries.

A) 14^th; 15^th
B) 17^th; 18^th
C) 15^th; 16^th
D) 16^th; 17^th

Question 44

According to socialist ______________, "The policy of Russia is changeless."

A) V. Lenin
B) Karl Marx
C) Frederich Engels
D) Joseph Stalin

Question 45

__________________ claims that people once lived individually, followed by living in family groups as a state of nature. However, to improve their lives, they join together in society.

A) Behavioral theory
B) Social contract theory
C) Liberal theory
D) Existential theory

Question 46

According to____________ a prominent feature of the modern state and most of its power authority is based on having a monopoly on the use of coercion.

A) Max Weber
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Adam Smith
D) Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 47

In order to create governments to conduct society's affairs, people must give up much of their____________.

A) safety
B) freedom
C) financial resources
D) sovereignty

Question 48

____________ is a state's exclusive legal right to govern the territory and people within their borders and do not recognize the legal legitimacy of any outside authority.

A) Political control
B) State sovereignty
C) Governance
D) Power

Question 49

_____________ is the world oldest Republic.

A) The Netherlands
B) Switzerland
C) San Marino
D) England

Question 50

The Pashtuns are the largest ethnonational group in______________________.

A) Iran
B) Afghanistan
C) Pakistan
D) India

Question 51

According to the chapter, ___________, the father of modern realism, said it was fear that caused people to create strong governments to provide protection.

A) Honoré de Balzac
B) Thomas Hobbes
C) Henry James
D) John Locke

Question 52

_______________ is an independence movement aimed at liberating Western Sahara from Morocco.

A) Gerakan Riau Merdeka
B) Karen National Union
C) Arakan Independence Alliance
D) Polisario Front

Question 53

All these are prerequisite for statehood except ________________.

A) regime type and governance structure
B) diplomatic recognition
C) populations
D) territory

Question 54

More than _______________ countries recognize dual citizenship, being a citizen of two countries.

A) 100
B) 90
C) 80
D) 120

Question 55

Shari'ah rule is rooted in _________.

A) the Rise of the Khwarezm-Shâh Dynasty
B) the response to western ideology
C) Islamic moral code and religious law
D) the War on Terror

Question 56

Somalia has not had a functioning government since ______________.

A) 1990
B) 1993
C) 2000
D) 1990.

Question 57

The State of Palestine can do all the following in the UN general assembly except ____________.

A) vote within the UN bodies
B) hold a seat in the UN General Assembly
C) fully partake in UN business
D) be bound to UN treaties

Question 58

Why does the State of Palestine only have nonmember observer status at the UN?

A) The state of Palestine does not have the territorial size to be recognized as a full member.
B) Most member countries oppose Palestine as a full member.
C) Palestine lacks the financial resources to be a state.
D) Because of opposition led by Israel and the United States.

Question 59

The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of China until ________________.

A) 1965
B) 1977
C) 1979
D) 1968

Question 60

The Iraqi government faces domestic issues from all of these ethnonational groups except for the __________.

A) Shiites
B) Sunnis
C) Kurds
D) Hazaras

Question 61

Classic liberals such as __________ lobbied widely for the aspiration of self-determination to be in concurrence with democracy after World War I.

A) Simon Blackburn
B) Karl Korsch
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Hans Morgenthau

Question 62

The term league of nations was dubbed by _________________________.

A) Thomas Hobbes
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 63

According the Fragile States Index (2018), ______________ is the most stable country.

A) Bhutan
B) Canada
C) The U.S.
D) Finland

Question 64

The average life expectancy at birth for an American is ______________.

A) 83
B) 79
C) 70
D) 75

Question 65

Reflect on the concept of the nation.

Question 66

What is nationalism?

Question 67

Reflect on the emergence of nationalism.

Question 68

Describe and give examples of how religion and nationalism shaped the emergence of nations.

Question 69

Reflect on popular sovereignty in the context of state formation.

Question 70

Describe colonialism and its role in shaping global politics.

Question 71

Explain the notion of a failed state.

Question 72

Reflect on colonial legacies in the formation of non-western states.

Question 73

Describe alternative ways that nation and state-building evolve.

Question 74

Reflect on the requisites of statehood.

Question 75

Reflect on the positive and negative aspects of nationalism.

Question 76

Explain the principle of self-determination and its implications.

Question 77

Describe states, state formation, and critical characteristics of states.

Question 78

Reflect on the term nativism.

Question 79

How has the legacy of colonialism impacted the relationship between the Global South and the Global North?

Question 80

Evaluate the role of the U.S. and UN in nation-building in Post-Conflict areas.