20 Important Questions on International Relations

1. Who coined term “International Relations”?

a) Hans J. Morgenthau

b) Quincy Wright

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Jeremy Bentham

2. The term ‘International Relations’ was first used in the book:

a) Politics among Nations

b) Principles of Morals and Legislation

c) The Prince

d) Introduction to International Relations

3. Who is known as the father of International Relations?

a) Kenneth Waltz

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Quincy Wright

d) Woodrow Wilson

4. Who wrote the book “The Study of International Relations”?

a) Palmer and Perkins

b) Quincy Wright

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Hans J. Morgenthau

5. Who said “International Relation is a struggle for power among nations”?

a) Quincy Wright

b) Palmer and Perkins

c) Hans J. Morgenthau

d) Hartman

6. Who said International Relations primarily “concerns the relationship among the world’s governments”?

a) Goldstein

b) Wright

c) Palmer and Perkins

d) Lawson

7. Who is known as forerunner of ‘realpolitik’?

a) Norman Angel

b) Thucydides

c) Woodrow Wilson

d) Alfred Zimmern

8. Who wrote the book “The History of the Peloponnesian War”?

a) E.H. Carr

b) Thucydides

c) Alfred Zimmern

d) George F. Kennan

9. Who gave ‘14 points speech’?

a) Alfred Zimmern

b) Norman Angell

c) Woodrow Wilson

d) Morgenthau

10.  Who said “International as the relations among state”?

a) Charles Schleicher

b) Margaret Sprout

c) Hartman

d) Stanley Hoffman

11.  The rise of nation-state system in International Relations began in:

a) 1948

b) 1648

c) 1945

d) 1947

12. Emergence of International State System starts with:

a) Paris Peace Conference

b) Treaty of Westphalia

c) Montevideo Convention

d) Treaty of Utrecht

13. Who gave the concept of International Society?

a) Watson

b) Barry Buzan

c) H. Bull

d) Huntington

14.  Who first gave the concept of ‘National Interest’?

a) Joseph Frankel

b) Robinson

c) Robert Osgood

d) Morgenthau

15. Who wrote the essay ‘Primacy of National Interest’ (1949)?

a) Palmer and Perkins

b) Robinson

c) Robert Osgood

d) Morgenthau

16. Who said, “National Interest is state of affairs valued solely for the benefit to nation”?

a) George Washington

b) Robinson

c) Robert Osgood

d) Morgenthau

17. Who wrote the book “National Interest”?

a) Joseph Frankel

b) Watson

c) Barry Buzan

d) H. Bull

18. Who refers to four levels of national interest –aspirational, operational, explanatory and polemical?

a) Paddleford

b) Lincoln

c) Joseph Frankel

d) Olvey

19. Who define about 6 types of national interest?

a) Palmer and Perkins

b) Robinson

c) Paddleford

d) Lincoln

20. Which among the following are the elements of national interest?

a) Psychological and Political warfare and Diplomacy

b) Alliance and Propaganda

c) Imperialism and Colonialism

d) All of the above