Deck 6: International Organization: the Evolving Quest for Global Governance

Question 1

As of 2019, UN membership reached _________________.

A) 198
B) 195
C) 193
D) 196

Answer 1

193

Question 2

The original membership of the UN was ____________.

A) 51
B) 50
C) 55
D) 58

Answer 2

51

Question 3

The UN was created in _____________.

A) 1960
B) 1945
C) 1955
D) 1950

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

The first rudimentary IGO was established in ___________.

A) 478 BCE
B) 470 BCE
C) 480 BCE
D) 488 BCE

Question 5

The first IGO was the __________________.

A) League of Nations
B) Universal Postal Union
C) UN
D) Delian League

Question 6

The "league of universal peace" was proposed by French official _____________.

A) Jean Lafitte
B) Abbé de Saint Pierre
C) Pierre Dubois
D) Émeric Crucé

Question 7

____________ was the liberator of much of South America from Spanish colonialism.

A) Francisco de Miranda
B) Simón Bolívar
C) Miguel Hidalgo
D) Bernardo O'Higgins

Question 8

Neoliberal institutionalism is instrumental in all of these except____________.

A) regular interaction encourages habits of cooperation
B) mange gender equality within international organizations
C) monitoring state behavior
D) punishing states that defect

Question 9

The Universal Postal Union developed in ____________.

A) 1846
B) 1840
C) 1855
D) 1850

Question 10

____________, a driving force for European integration in the 1950s, called for economic and political integration post World War II.

A) Jean Monnet
B) Winston Churchill
C) Hubert Pierlot
D) Thorvald Stauning

Question 11

After conflicts in Yugoslavia and Somalia, Americans and Europeans found peacekeeping ______________.

A) to be the only way of solving these crises
B) to be adequate to negotiate peace
C) too risky in terms of putting actual troops on the ground
D) as a safe and low risk approach

Question 12

Which of these is not a means of managing collective action problems via institutions and organizations?

A) norms
B) rules
C) international principles
D) military reach

Question 13

_________ is rooted in the belief that global and regional governance arrangements arise from the fundamental needs of people and states.

A) Functionalism
B) Neofunctionalism
C) Neo-realism
D) Globalization

Question 14

According to functionalists, all of these are means of achieving global cooperation except for _______________.

A) Multilateral treaties
B) IGOs
C) nationalism
D) NGOs

Question 15

_______________ stresses practical decision making and incremental change in explaining the process of state integration and cooperation.

A) Functionalism
B) Neofunctionalism
C) neo-realism
D) globalization

Question 16

___________________ helps us to understand why and how the Universal Postal Union developed to resolve the issue of delivering mail internationally.

A) constructivism theory
B) Functionalist theory
C) realist theory
D) world system theory

Question 17

__________ are commodities that are "fully joint and nonexcludable".

A) Club goods
B) Rival goods
C) Public goods
D) Private goods

Question 18

In ___________ the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq without UN Security Council approval.

A) 2000
B) 2001
C) 2003
D) 2002

Question 19

Which of these treaties help solve the problem of ozone layer depletion as a result of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?

A) The Geneva Protocol
B) The Montreal Protocol
C) The Kyoto Protocol
D) The OPRC-HNS Protocol

Question 20

According to______________ IGOs as convenient tools for the most powerful to seek out their interests.

A) socialists
B) functionalists
C) liberals
D) realists

Question 21

The _________________ was the first IGO dedicated to curbing, even preventing, warfare.

A) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
B) Hague Convention
C) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
D) International Military Tribunal for Germany

Question 22

the Versailles Peace Conference took place in __________.

A) 1920
B) 1915
C) 1914
D) 1919

Question 23

The __________________ is the oldest surviving IGO.

A) Hague Convention
B) Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine
C) International Telegraph Union
D) Universal Postal Union

Question 24

In the 1800s there were _____________ established IGOs.

A) nineteen
B) thirty-three
C) six
D) twenty

Question 25

The growth of IGOs are the result of all the following except.

A) right-wing political movement
B) increased international contact
C) increased interdependence
D) expansion of transnational problems

Question 26

The UN Security Council passed a resolution authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya in ___________________.

A) June 2013
B) January 2010
C) March 2011
D) April 20012

Question 27

According to _______________, "To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war".

A) Barack Obama
B) Winston Churchill
C) Angela Merkel
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 28

Which of these IGOs followed the core ideas of a failed League of Nations?

A) the Hague
B) WTO
C) UN
D) EU

Question 29

____________ focuses spill-over effects, where integration in one functional area tends to spill over into other areas.

A) Socialism
B) Constructivism
C) Neofunctionalism
D) Functionalism

Question 30

The first Hague conference was held in __________.

A) 1846
B) 1880
C) 1899
D) 1866

Question 31

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for _________________________________years.

A) 42
B) 45
C) 39
D) 43

Question 32

By 1984 there were about _____________ IGOs.

A) 304
B) 365
C) 430
D) 399

Question 33

During World War I almost _____________ people died.

A) 20 million
B) 9 million
C) 12 million
D) 17 million

Question 34

World War II left _____________ soldiers and civilians dead from military action.

A) 65 million
B) 43 million
C) 58 million
D) 39 million

Question 35

During World II __________ or more civilians died from the Holocaust and other atrocities.

A) 5 million
B) 10 million
C) 12 million
D) 8 million

Question 36

Universal Declaration of Human Rights was set forth in _______________.

A) 1945
B) 1947
C) 1948
D) 1946

Question 37

The Nonaligned Movement (NAM) is an IGO that was formed by ____________.

A) the allied nations during World War I
B) less developed countries (LDCs)
C) the EU member states
D) the G 20 member states

Question 38

According to the chapter, the Group of 77 (G-77), has ________________ member-countries.

A) 132
B) 140
C) 138
D) 137

Question 39

In just 15 years of its existence, the Dispute Settlement Unit of the WTO has had over __________ disputes on its docket.

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

Question 40

The UN system is __________ in nature.

A) confederal
B) federal
C) unitary
D) universal

Question 41

Who wrote the book Nineteen Eighty-Four?

A) Michael Schmidt
B) William Golding
C) J.K. Rowling
D) George Orwell

Question 42

UN Charter established _______________ major bodies.

A) ten
B) six
C) 12
D) five

Question 43

the Security Council has seats for only __________ out of a body made up of closely to 200 Members States.

A) 35
B) 30
C) 15
D) 25

Question 44

A collective noun that designates a complex of norms, rules, processes, and organizations refers to as _____________.

A) regime
B) institution
C) authority
D) federation

Question 45

A system in which central authority and the member-units each have substantial authority is known as a ___________.

A) social democratic system
B) unitary government
C) federation
D) confederation

Question 46

UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has representatives from __________ members.

A) 61
B) 88
C) 101
D) 54

Question 47

The _____________ advocates for the establishment of world institutions with actual power and authority to make and enforce the law in their given jurisdictions.

A) World Federalist Movement
B) Alternative Movement
C) Economy for the Common Good
D) Global Citizens Movement

Question 48

Which of the following is not a critique of greater global governance?

A) issues with morality of forming a global governance structure.
B) issues with the concentration of power
C) issues with practical barriers
D) issues about preserving democracy

Question 49

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has __________ permanent members who were the leading victorious powers at the end of World War II.

A) twelve
B) fifteen
C) five
D) twenty

Question 50

The General Assembly refused to seat South Africa's delegate because that country's apartheid policies violated the UN Charter between__________ and ____________.

A) 1980; 1990
B) 1974; 1991
C) 1970;1995
D) 1979; 1993

Question 51

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has __________ nonpermanent members.

A) ten
B) twenty-five
C) eight
D) thirty

Question 52

Which of these states were not part of Yugoslavia?

A) Slovenia
B) Montenegro
C) Bulgaria
D) Macedonia

Question 53

In the UN General Assembly, ___________ combined populations are less than ______ of the world's population.

A) 100 states; 20%
B) 125 states; 25%
C) 128 states; 15%
D) 130 states; 35%

Question 54

The United States alone commands about ____________ of the votes in the IMF.

A) 10%
B) 17%
C) 13%
D) 15%

Question 55

Voting power based on population and wealth in know as ________________.

A) unanimity voting
B) majority voting
C) supermajority voting
D) weighted voting

Question 56

The General Assembly elects the economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) members for ___________ terms based on a plan of geographical representation.

A) one-year
B) three-year
C) five-year
D) four-year

Question 57

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) operate on a ___________ formula.

A) weighted voting
B) supermajority voting
C) simple majority voting
D) unanimity voting

Question 58

UN General Assembly and most other UN bodies operate on the principle of ___________________.

A) weighted voting
B) supermajority voting
C) simple majority voting
D) unanimity voting

Question 59

China and India combined have 37% of the world's population, yet combined have less than ______ of the IMF votes.

A) 6%
B) 15%
C) 13%
D) 11%

Question 60

The UN _____________ is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the complex UN system.

A) Under-Secretary-General
B) Secretary-General
C) President
D) Special Envoy

Question 61

During the Cold War the veto power with the Security Council was employed over ______________?

A) 500 times
B) 200 times
C) 100 times
D) 150 times

Question 62

In 2009 _____________ became the first female officer to become a Major General.

A) Nigar Johar
B) Kristin Lund
C) Ann Elizabeth Dunwoody
D) Marcelite J. Harris

Question 63

The third UN analytical toolkit include all the following except ____________.

A) the Secretariat and staff members
B) the intergovernmental arena
C) the state-level legislative arena
D) the scholars, experts, and NGOs

Question 64

____________ was very instrumental in putting forth a neoliberal institutionalist agenda and pushing the UN forward as a driver of ideas and new norms.

A) Dag Hammarskjöld
B) Ban Ki-Moon
C) Kofi Annan
D) António Guterres

Question 65

Since the end of the Cold War, the veto power within the Security Council has been used about ___________.

A) 50 times
B) 100 times
C) 120 times
D) 250 times

Question 66

The UN Secretariat employs approximately ________________ professional and support staff based in UN offices all over the world.

A) 100,000
B) 45,000
C) 55,000
D) 60,000

Question 67

The famous Suez Canal crisis took place in ____________.

A) 1949
B) 1975
C) 1956
D) 1945

Question 68

the concept of a "third UN" was argued by all these scholars except ____________.

A) Thomas Weiss
B) Tatiana Carayannis
C) Richard Jolly
D) Robert Jolly

Question 69

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright served under U.S. President ____________.

A) Bill Clinton
B) Ronald Reagan
C) George W. Bush
D) Jimmy Carter

Question 70

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was founded in __________________.

A) 1972
B) 1960
C) 1967
D) 1980

Question 71

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created in _____________.

A) 1975
B) 1980
C) 1965
D) 1986

Question 72

The UN Trusteeship Councilsuspended operation in __________________.

A) 2001
B) 1998
C) 2000
D) 1994

Question 73

In 100 words, describe how an IGO may supersede state sovereignty.

Question 74

In 100 words, describe how an IGO may reinforce state sovereignty.

Question 75

What are IGOs?

Question 76

In 100 words, examine various aspects and types of military interventions in global politics.

Question 77

Why was the European Union formed?

Question 78

Explain the value of Neoliberal institutionalism (NLI) in global politics.

Question 79

Describe and explain the central tenants of multilateralism.

Question 80

Explain the term neofunctionalism.