Free Contemporary Global Issues MCQs with Answers

225 Contemporary Global Issues MCQs from International Relations, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

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  • A. A terrorist cell
  • B. Any structure of communication for individuals and/or organization to exchange information, share experiences, or discuss political goals or tactics
  • C. Any group of people organized in a local community
  • D. Internal access

Explanation: In international relations, a network is a structure linking individuals or organizations so they can exchange information and coordinate…

Correct answer: Any structure of communication for individuals and/or organization to exchange information, share experiences, or discuss political goals or tactics
  • A. When trade between two countries is routed indirectly via a third country
  • B. When one government attempts to exercise its legal authority in the territory of another
  • C. A Security Council resolution pertaining to international trade
  • D. None of the options given is correct

Explanation: Triangulation involves routing a transaction, especially trade or financial flows, through a third country to conceal its origin…

Correct answer: When trade between two countries is routed indirectly via a third country
  • A. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
  • B. Government negotiating with international organizations
  • C. Any civil society actor from one country that has relations with any actor from another country or an international organization
  • D. Any non-state actor

Explanation: Transnational actors are civil-society or other non-state actors whose activities connect actors across national borders or with…

Correct answer: Any civil society actor from one country that has relations with any actor from another country or an international organization
  • A. capitalism's insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity.
  • B. a shared ecology involving shared en environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance.
  • C. central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy not be possible.
  • D. the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinkingInternational Relations

Explanation: Time-space compression describes how communications and transport technologies reduce the practical significance of distance and time…

Correct answer: the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinkingInternational Relations
  • A. by comparison with the period 1870 to 1914 the world is much less globalized economically, politically and culturally
  • B. the vast bulk of international economic and political activity is concentrated within the group of OECD states
  • C. globalization is at best a self-serving myth or ideology which reinforces western and particularly US hegemony in world politics.
  • D. all of the aboveTry Prep Courses

Explanation: Sceptical scholars argue that globalization is overstated: economic integration may be less than in 1870–1914, activity remains…

Correct answer: all of the aboveTry Prep Courses