Deck 3: Political Economy

Question 1

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon writes that the world currently faces which of the following crises?

A) a global economic slowdown
B) a global food crisis
C) global warming
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following world economic organizations was established in 1995?

A) the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B) the World Trade Organization (WTO)
C) the World Bank
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following United Nations bodies can take direct military action to enforce its decisions?

A) the General Assembly
B) the International Court of Justice
C) the Security Council
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Teleology is

A) the application of religious principles to politics.
B) the attempt to explain natural phenomena as being directed toward some final cause or purpose.
C) the opposite of a state of hegemony.
D) another term for Take-off theory.
E) the application of political principles to religion.

Question 5

The idea that it is the natural right of the strong to take more than their equal share of what the world has to offer and that might makes right is known as the Doctrine of

A) Plato.
B) Thrasymachus.
C) Aristotle.
D) Homer.
E) Socrates.

Question 6

Which of the following ideologies holds that substantial inequality in society is natural, necessary, and just?

A) conservatism
B) liberalism
C) radicalism
D) a and b above.
E) b and c above.

Question 7

According to dependency theory,

A) development will occur much more quickly in the Other World than it did in the industrialized countries.
B) development is unnecessary in the Other World.
C) development in the Other World is unlikely to occur at all.
D) the drug problem will only be solved when farmers growing drug crops in Other World countries change to other crops.
E) development is a direct result of the activities of multinational corporations.

Question 8

Which of the following countries did not join the others to establish centralized command economies modeled on the ideals of Marx, Lenin, and Mao?

A) Cuba
B) Vietnam
C) Algeria
D) Brazil
E) Angola

Question 9

A state of affairs in which a single world power is so dominant that it can largely impose its rules and its wishes on the other countries of the world is known as

A) hegemony.
B) balance of power.
C) balance of terror.
D) continuity.
E) teleology.

Question 10

In the years immediately following World War II, a world hegemony was established by

A) the Soviet Union.
B) Great Britain.
C) China.
D) France.
E) the United States.

Question 11

Bretton Woods is associated with

A) the green revolution technologies.
B) old growth forests in central Europe.
C) the World Bank, IMF, and GATT.
D) agreements reached at the Rio conference on global warming.
E) peace accords that ended World War I.

Question 12

After more than four decades of sustained development efforts in the Other World

A) there are more people living in absolute poverty than ever before.
B) most Fourth World countries have been able to pull themselves into the ranks of the Third World.
C) poverty as a source of social and political violence and instability has been contained.
D) the ability to improve the lives of the masses of Other World peoples through the strategies of Take-off Theory has been conclusively demonstrated
E) hunger has been all but eliminated in the Other World.

Question 13

The number of people living in absolute poverty in the world is

A) steadily declining.
B) holding at about the same level.
C) increasing.
D) impossible to calculate
E) not known because of poor data collection.

Question 14

High fertility rates in Other World countries result from the fact that

A) a working child can contribute to household resources by age 6 and produce more than he or she consumes by age 12.
B) Other World countries have generally high infant and childhood mortality rates.
C) few people have access to retirement or social security programs.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 15

Which of the following is not used in green revolution agriculture?

A) irrigation
B) pesticides
C) mechanized equipment
D) herbicides
E) native seed strains

Question 16

Politics can be defined as

A) the authoritative allocation of scarce values.
B) the exercise of power.
C) who gets what, when, and how.
D) none of the above
E) all of the above

Question 17

A political system controlled by a few to further their self-interests is knows as a(n)

A) tyranny.
B) democracy.
C) oligarchy.
D) aristocracy.
E) polity.

Question 18

Corruption is defined as the use of public office for

A) public purposes.
B) religious purposes.
C) secular purposes.
D) private gain.
E) economic purposes.

Question 19

Machiavelli notes that, with time, the rule of lions must give way to the rule of

A) foxes.
B) horses.
C) turkeys.
D) cheetahs.
E) cheaters.

Question 20

In First World/Other World relations, "brokers" are

A) First World bureaucrats.
B) Second World diplomats.
C) First World politicians
D) Third World farmers.
E) Third World politicians.

Question 21

Which of the following measures would not be included in a structural adjustment program?

A) privatizing government-owned industries.
B) increasing spending on public health programs.
C) increasing the export of primary products.
D) decreasing spending on education.
E) making payments on loans from foreign banks.

Question 22

Colin Leys defines the New World Order as a world

A) controlled by the United states.
B) regulated by the Federal Reserve Board.
C) enforced by the military forces of the United Nations.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 23

Riccardo Petrella observes that the world's population is becoming sharply divided into two classes on the basis of

A) intelligence.
B) access to computer and satellite technologies.
C) geography.
D) military might.
E) fortune, or fate

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council?

A) United States
B) Britain
C) France
D) Germany
E) China

Question 25

The "Brazilian Economic Miracle" resulted in

A) dramatic increases in the production of black beans.
B) only slight increases in the country's GNP.
C) the control of most of Brazil's heavy industry by Brazilians.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 26

Other World development first appeared as an item on the international agenda in the late 1940s.

Question 27

The Greek sophist who observed that the strong routinely use force and fraud to control the institutions of government as a means of taking the lion's share of what society has to offer for themselves was Plato.

Question 28

Take-off theory rests on the fundamental tenets of capitalism.

Question 29

The Development Decade was successful in dramatically improving the standard of living of the masses of Other World peoples.

Question 30

A state of affairs in which a single world power is so dominant that it can largely impose its rules and its wishes on the other countries of the world is known as hegemony.

Question 31

In the years immediately following World War II, a world hegemony was established by Great Britain.

Question 32

After more than three decades of sustained development efforts in the Other World there are more people living in absolute poverty than ever before.

Question 33

The Brazilian Economic Miracle resulted in the control of most of Brazil's heavy industry by Brazilians

Question 34

In terms of calories available per capita, there is a tremendous surplus of food in the world.

Question 35

As a result of the debt crisis, the internal affairs and domestic policies of many Third World countries are coming increasingly under the control of the European Union.

Question 36

Explain who "brokers" are in Other World/First World relations.

Question 37

Describe Globalization.

Question 38

Describe and explain the results of more than four decades of sustained efforts to achieve "development" in the Other World.

Question 39

Describe the nature of contemporary world political trends and the significance of those trends for Other World development.