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  • A. Turkey
  • B. Poland
  • C. Afghanistan
  • D. UK

Explanation: The Saadabad Pact was signed in 1937 by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan as a regional non-aggression and friendship agreement.

Correct answer: Afghanistan
  • A. London Peace Treaties
  • B. Paris Peace Treaties
  • C. Greater Peace Treaties
  • D. Vienna Conventions

Explanation: The Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 formally settled the post-war status of Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, which is why they…

Correct answer: Paris Peace Treaties
  • A. 1965
  • B. 1967
  • C. 1964
  • D. 1962

Explanation: The Vienna Convention was adopted in 1961 but entered into force on 24 April 1964 after the required ratifications were secured.

Correct answer: 1964
  • A. Egypt
  • B. Palestine Liberation Organization
  • C. Jordan
  • D. HAMAS

Explanation: The 1993 Oslo Accords were reached between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which mutually recognized each other and…

Correct answer: Palestine Liberation Organization
  • A. 1995
  • B. 1993
  • C. 1994
  • D. 1990

Explanation: Israel and Jordan signed their peace treaty on 26 October 1994, formally ending the state of war and settling major territorial and…

Correct answer: 1994
  • A. Detente with the USSR
  • B. Rapprochement with China
  • C. German Ostpolitik
  • D. All of the options given are correct

Explanation: Détente reduced tensions between the United States and USSR, rapprochement improved US-China relations, and Ostpolitik sought better…

Correct answer: All of the options given are correct
  • A. Because their education systems are les advanced
  • B. Because they don't have the resources to maintain diplomats
  • C. Because they have relatively underdeveloped diplomatic machinery and a restricted range of policy instruments
  • D. Because they prefer to handle domestic matters first

Explanation: Developing states often have smaller diplomatic services, fewer resources, and fewer policy instruments than developed powers.

Correct answer: Because they have relatively underdeveloped diplomatic machinery and a restricted range of policy instruments
  • A. Because many diplomats died that day
  • B. Because it was unclear what negotiation and diplomacy can contribute to resolve a conflict with terrorism in the future
  • C. Because the Bush administration's 'war against terrorism' suggested that military force and other coercive measures would be used to resolve this conflict
  • D. Both b and c

Explanation: After 9/11, the difficulty of negotiating with terrorist networks made diplomacy's possible contribution uncertain, while the Bush…

Correct answer: Both b and c
  • A. Information gathering
  • B. Policy advice
  • C. Representation and Consular Services
  • D. All of the aboveTry Prep Courses

Explanation: A diplomatic machine performs several connected tasks: it gathers information, advises policymakers, represents the state abroad, and…

Correct answer: All of the aboveTry Prep Courses
  • A. Because globalization has taken away the focus on the state
  • B. Because of the increased amount of non-state actors that are significant in the international stage
  • C. It is still significant, since most diplomatic agency is still the preserve of states
  • D. b and c

Explanation: State-based diplomacy has not disappeared, but it is no longer the only significant diplomatic channel because NGOs, multinational firms…

Correct answer: b and c
  • A. Diplomats no longer operate within the well-defined shell of the state, rather, they now operate within shifting boundaries of state sovereignty
  • B. The growth of civil society and non-governmental organizations require a more broad-based diplomacy
  • C. State-based diplomacy is outdated
  • D. a and bCompare Local Schools

Explanation: Modern diplomats work across more fluid boundaries of sovereignty, while civil society and NGOs demand wider consultation and engagement.

Correct answer: a and bCompare Local Schools
  • A. To prevent the ideological spread of their counterparts in their region
  • B. To gain the hearts and minds of non-aligned countries
  • C. To avoid a global nuclear conflict
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: The most dramatic diplomatic priority during the East-West confrontation was preventing the Cold War from becoming a global nuclear war.

Correct answer: To avoid a global nuclear conflict
  • A. In world politics, diplomacy is a communications process between international actors that seeks through negotiation to resolve conflict short of war
  • B. In foreign policy, diplomacy is a policy instrument to enable an international actor to achieve its policy objectives
  • C. Diplomacy focuses on the resolution of conflict through dialogue and negotiation
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Diplomacy is both a communication and negotiation process and an instrument through which states pursue foreign-policy objectives.

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Mixed diplomacy encompasses realist and liberal theories to be used as a policy instrument
  • B. Mixed diplomacy is when diplomacy is a means to communicate the use or threatened use of other instruments
  • C. Mixed diplomacy is both a policy instrument and a process
  • D. None of the aboveStudy Foreign Affairs

Explanation: Mixed diplomacy refers to diplomacy used to communicate the use or threatened use of other instruments, such as economic pressure or…

Correct answer: Mixed diplomacy is when diplomacy is a means to communicate the use or threatened use of other instruments
  • A. Traditional diplomacy constituted a communications process between recognizably modern states rather than between other forms of political organization
  • B. Traditional diplomacy was more inclined to negotiate and cooperate and less of an instrument to threaten the use of force
  • C. The structure of traditional diplomacy was institutionalized
  • D. a and c

Explanation: Modern or traditional diplomacy developed among recognizable sovereign states and became institutionalized through permanent diplomatic…

Correct answer: a and c