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  • A. the Organization of American States.
  • B. the United Nations.
  • C. NATO.
  • D. the League of Nations.

Explanation: The League of Nations, established after the First World War, was the first major international attempt to institutionalise collective…

Correct answer: the League of Nations.
  • A. simplified the earlier treaties.
  • B. creates the post of President of the Council and EU Foreign Minister.
  • C. incorporates the Fundamental Rights Charter.
  • D. all of the above.

Explanation: The proposed 2004 Constitutional Treaty consolidated and simplified earlier treaties, incorporated the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights…

Correct answer: all of the above.
  • A. removed all non-tariff barriers.
  • B. led to the expansion of majority voting.
  • C. destroyed the pound.
  • D. created the Common Market.

Explanation: The Treaty of Nice adjusted EU institutions for enlargement and extended the use of qualified-majority voting in additional policy areas.

Correct answer: led to the expansion of majority voting.
  • A. Made a plan for a common market
  • B. Removed all non-trade barriers to the mobility of goods, people, services and capital
  • C. Reformed the commission and council in terms of voting weights
  • D. Economic and monetary union

Explanation: The Single European Act created the legal programme for completing the EU internal market by removing non-tariff barriers to the movement…

Correct answer: Removed all non-trade barriers to the mobility of goods, people, services and capital
  • A. SAARC
  • B. MERCOSUR
  • C. APEC
  • D. ASEAN

Explanation: MERCOSUR is the Southern Common Market, a Latin American regional integration organization.

Correct answer: MERCOSUR
  • A. It is where representatives of nations governments negotiate the legal framework within which the EU institutions operate
  • B. It is where EU officials meet to decide on economic policy
  • C. It is where EU representatives convene for the purpose of increased understanding between nation-states
  • D. None of the aboveTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Intergovernmental conferences bring together representatives of member-state governments to negotiate treaty changes and the legal…

Correct answer: It is where representatives of nations governments negotiate the legal framework within which the EU institutions operate
  • A. Initiating, administering and overseeing the implementation of EU policies and legislation
  • B. Representatives of the EU investigating the operations of other institutions
  • C. Representing the views of national governments
  • D. Determining the ultimate shape of EU legislation

Explanation: The European Commission proposes legislation, administers EU programmes and supervises the implementation of EU law and policies.

Correct answer: Initiating, administering and overseeing the implementation of EU policies and legislation
  • A. EU's highest court, ruling in dispute matters of EU law between member states
  • B. EU's court for human rights, ruling in human rights violations in the EU
  • C. A committee representing the laws of every country in the EU
  • D. None of the aboveCompare Local Schools

Explanation: The European Court of Justice, now the Court of Justice of the European Union, is the EU’s highest judicial authority on EU law and…

Correct answer: EU's highest court, ruling in dispute matters of EU law between member states
  • A. Formed when a government and an NGO form joint organization of which both can be members
  • B. An organization in which membership is open to transnational actors
  • C. A genetically-modified international organism
  • D. People with a diffuse sense of collective identity and common purposeTry Prep Courses

Explanation: A hybrid INGO combines governmental and nongovernmental participation in one organization, allowing both governments and NGOs to be…

Correct answer: Formed when a government and an NGO form joint organization of which both can be members
  • A. Realpolitik
  • B. Isolationism
  • C. Sovereignty
  • D. None of these

Explanation: State sovereignty includes the principle that each state has authority over its own internal affairs and that other states should not…

Correct answer: Sovereignty
  • A. Line of Actual Control
  • B. Line of Peace
  • C. Line of Control
  • D. Red Line

Explanation: The Line of Actual Control, or LAC, is the de facto boundary separating Indian- and Chinese-controlled areas along their disputed…

Correct answer: Line of Actual Control
  • A. after the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • B. before the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • C. after the 1965 Pak-Indian War
  • D. during British period

Explanation: The LAC emerged after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, when the two sides remained in control of different parts of the disputed frontier.

Correct answer: after the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • A. Line of Ceasefire
  • B. Ceasefire Line
  • C. Line of Control
  • D. 38 Parallel

Explanation: The Line of Control is the de facto military boundary between Indian- and Pakistani-administered parts of Kashmir.

Correct answer: Line of Control
  • A. White Line
  • B. Interim Line
  • C. Ceasefire Line
  • D. Line of Ceasefire

Explanation: Before the Simla Agreement, the Kashmir military demarcation was called the Ceasefire Line, established under the 1949 UN-sponsored…

Correct answer: Ceasefire Line
  • A. December 1973
  • B. December 1974
  • C. December 1972
  • D. December 1971

Explanation: The Ceasefire Line was redesignated as the Line of Control in 1972 under the Simla Agreement, with the arrangement being formalized in…

Correct answer: December 1972
  • A. Order Neisse Line
  • B. White Line
  • C. Neisse Line
  • D. Line of Control

Explanation: The standard name is the Oder-Neisse Line, the post-Second World War boundary between Poland and the former East Germany.

Correct answer: Order Neisse Line
  • A. Pakistan
  • B. Bhutan
  • C. Myanmar
  • D. India

Explanation: The McMahon Line was drawn in 1914 to mark the boundary between Tibet and British India, now India, in the eastern Himalayas.

Correct answer: India
  • A. Thalweg Doctrine
  • B. Mari Doctrine
  • C. B.P (Border Post) Doctrine
  • D. none of these

Explanation: The Thalweg Doctrine places a river boundary along the deepest or navigable channel, normally the mid-channel.

Correct answer: Thalweg Doctrine
  • A. this is India's deviation from historical Indus Water Treaty
  • B. this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable
  • C. Creek is not regularly navigable
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Pakistan rejects applying the Thalweg Doctrine because it is traditionally used for navigable rivers, whereas Sir Creek is not regarded as…

Correct answer: this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable
  • A. US convention on the Law of Seas
  • B. UN convention on the Law of Seas
  • C. India-Pakistan convention of the Law of Seas
  • D. none of these

Explanation: The reference is to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, which governs maritime zones and continental-shelf…

Correct answer: UN convention on the Law of Seas