25 Important Questions on Theories of International Relations

1. Who is not an exponent of liberal approach to International Relations?

a) Alfred Zimmern

b) E. H. Carr

c) Norman Angell

d) Woodrow Wilson

2. Who is among the following is the chief exponent of liberalism?

a) Thomas Jefferson

b) Norman Angell

c) Woodrow Wilson

d) Alfred Zimmern

3. Who described exponents of liberal approach of IR as ‘Utopians’?

a) E.H. Carr

b) James Madison

c) Thomas Jefferson

d) Norman Angell

 4. Who gave the idea of perpetual peace?

a) Immanuel Kant

b) Thomas Jefferson

c) Norman Angell

d) Woodrow Wilson

5. Who celebrated the triumph of liberalism over all ideologies by his writing ‘The End of History’?

a) M Doyle

b) Hoffmann

c) Huntington

d) Francis  Fukuyama

6. Who wrote the book ‘Ways of War and Peace’?

a) S. Walt

b) M Doyle

c) Hoffmann

d) Huntington

7. Who gave the famous speech ‘Fourteen Point’?

a) Woodrow Wilson

b) Immanuel Kant

c) Michael Doyle

d) Huntington

Ans: a) Woodrow Wilson

9. Who is the proponent of democratic peace theory?

a) Bentham

b) Woodrow Wilson

c) Hoffmann

d) Michael Doyle

10. The liberal of International Relations developed after:

a) First world war

b) Second world war

c) Cold war

d) Gulf war

11.  According to which theory transnational cooperation is require in order solving common problems?

a) Realism

b) Liberalism

c) Integration theory

d) Marxist theory

12. Who is the chief exponent of integration theory?

a) Robert  Keohane

b) David Mitrany

c) Joseph Nye

d) Alfred Zimmern

13. Liberalism emphasizes the importance of:

a) State Sovereignty

b) Military Alliance

c) Balance of Power

d) International law and institutions

14. Which concept suggests that democracies are less likely to engage in conflict with each other?

a) Democratic peace theory

b) Realism

c) Balance of power

d) Security dilemma

15. In liberal theory, trade  and business between states is viewed as:

a) A source of balance of power

b) A source of conflict

c) A way to cooperation and peace

d) A means of creating dominance

16.  According to neoliberal institutionalism, international institutions:

a) Maintain balance of power

b) Create anarchy

c) Are relevant for the international system

d) Can mitigate conflict and promote cooperation

17.  According to liberal theory, what is essential for maintaining peace between states?

a) Military dominance

b) Economic interdependence

c) Ideological uniformity

d) Cultural isolation

18. Which theory of IR emphasizes the role of non-state actors such as NGOs, MNCs and TNCs?

a) Liberalism

b) Realism

c) Constructivism

d) Postmodernism

19. According to Marxist theory, what is the primary factor of social and political relations?

a) Religion

b) Ideology

c) Culture

d) Economy

20.  Who among the following is not an exponent of Marxist theory of IR?

a) Karl Marx

b) Mao

c) Hegel

d) Lenin

21. Who wrote the book ‘Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?

a) Lenin

b) Karl Marx

c) Mao

d) Gramsci

22. Who said, ‘Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance and brutality at the opposite pole’?

a) Robert W. Cox

b) Gramsci

c) Karl Marx

d) Mao

23. Who among the following Marxist theorist focused on the concept of “dependency theory”?

a) Friedrich Engels

b) Immanuel Wallerstein

c) Lenin

d) A. G. Frank

24. Who gave the slogan ‘all workers of the world should unite’?

a) Lenin

b) Gramsci

c) Karl Marx

d) Mao

25. Who gave the idea of Orientalism?

Hegel

Edward Said

Rudyard Kipling

Immanuel Kant