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1
As stated in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," the definition of sovereignty has been altered by the spread of ideas about human rights—by what Eleanor Roosevelt presciently predicted in 1948 would be:
A)"a curious grapevine."
B)"our bread upon the waters."
C)"the global network."
D)"visionary responsibility."
2
As cited in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," in the fall of 2006, in the limelight of the General Assembly's stage, President George W. Bush was accused of having come there "talking as if he were the owner of the world" by:
A)Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.
B)Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
C)Canadian politician and senior UN official Stephen Lewis.
D)Jordanian prime minister Marouf al-Bakhit.
3
As asserted in "Intensive Care for the United Nations," the diagnosis of the world body is clear: the United Nations is impaired, but certainly not paralyzed.
A)True
B)False
4
As pointed out in "Seeing 'Islamic Terror' in Norway," anyone who kills scores of civilians for political motives is a "terrorist," but the language of The New York Times following the deadly bombing in Norway on July 22, 2011, suggested that a "terrorist" would have to be:
A)anti-American.
B)Islamic.
C)a victim of brainwashing.
D)non-Aryan.
5
As mentioned in "Seeing 'Islamic Terror' in Norway," Robert Spencer operates the website for:
A)Daily Hadith.
B)The Third Jihad.
C)Jihad Watch.
D)Islamicity.
6
As identified in "Seeing 'Islamic Terror' in Norway," Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik has sympathetic ties to certain Islamic extremists.
A)True
B)False
7
As quoted in "Britain's Riots: A Society in Denial of the Burning Issues," in the wake of the riots, British Home Secretary Theresa May stridently denounced what she called:
A)"unbridled cowardice."
B)"unacceptable thuggery."
C)"classic gangland behavior."
D)"a moral wasteland."
8
As reported in "Britain's Riots: A Society in Denial of the Burning Issues," the disturbances—Britain's worst in almost 30 years—began in the rundown north London inner-city area of:
A)Tottenham.
B)Croydon.
C)Bexley.
D)Newham.
9
As assessed in "Britain's Riots: A Society in Denial of the Burning Issues," it is simply delusional for Britain's political leaders, police forces, and media to claim that the riots are all a matter of law and order.
A)True
B)False
10
As noted in "Flawed Miracle: India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor," the official name of India's $9 billion rural employment program is the:
A)Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
B)Rural Employment Recovery Project.
C)Indira Gandhi Rural Reclamation Programme.
D)Progressive Investment Scheme for a Working India.
11
As pointed out in "Flawed Miracle: India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor," to fuel growth, India has so far relied on its:
A)services industry in cities.
B)manufacturing in cities.
C)rural agriculture.
D)rural working class.
12
As reported in "Flawed Miracle: India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor," officials confirm that graft in the district of Karauli has been extreme.
A)True
B)False
13
As reported in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," in the past two years, global demand for African commodity exports has shrunk everywhere except in:
A)China.
B)Venezuela.
C)Vietnam.
D)the United States.
14
As identified in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," one of the recent influential studies on aid to Africa is a 2005 report on the United Nations' Millennium Project, directed by:
A)American economist Jeffrey Sachs.
B)Russian reformer Anatoly Chubais.
C)Colombian Nobelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
D)Britain's then-prime minister Tony Blair.
15
As assessed in "More Aid Is Not the Answer," after all is said and done, analyses of poverty, not geopolitical considerations, have governed most donor choices about aid spending.
A)True
B)False
16
According to "It Takes the Villages," Afghanistan's most recent stable period was that of the:
A)Janjau Rajput Empire (900–1050).
B)Hotaki dynasty (1722–1729).
C)Durrani Empire (1747–1826).
D)Musahiban dynasty (1929–1978).
17
As cited in "It Takes the Villages," Antonio Giustozzi convincingly argues that the well-intentioned proponents of the top-down model have survived for too long solely on an idealist's diet of:
A)Michel Foucault and Baruch Spinoza.
B)Karl Marx and Thomas Paine.
C)John Locke and Immanuel Kant.
D)Aristotle and John Milton.
18
As maintained in "It Takes the Villages," the Taliban are much weaker than is generally recognized.
A)True
B)False
19
As spelled out in "The New Cocaine Cowboys," over the last two decades, Mexican drug cartels have acquired unprecedented power to corrupt and intimidate government officials and civilians—and the three factors that account for their rise include all of the following except:
A)pre-existing corruption.
B)the demand for illegal drugs in the United States.
C)collusion with corrupt U.S. border officials.
D)the inability of weak law-enforcement institutions to counter them.
20
As reported in "The New Cocaine Cowboys," of all the criminal activities of the Mexican cartels, their two top business concerns are cocaine and:
A)kidnapping.
B)human trafficking.
C)extortion.
D)methamphetamine.
21
As noted in "The New Cocaine Cowboys," violence in Mexico today is nothing like the carnage that plagued Colombia in the late 1980s and 1990s.
A)True
B)False
22
The term "democracy," as presented in "What Democracy Is and Is Not," is generally used:
A)to define a single form of government.
B)as an emotional term, rather than a precise one.
C)to represent only the wealthiest nations.
D)as a cure-all for a nation's problems.
23
According to "What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not," democracy:
A)consists of a unique set of institutions.
B)is based on the competitive principle.
C)does not consist of a unique set of institutions.
D)is essentially indefinable.
24
The authors of "What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not" argue that different political systems can be differently democratic.
A)True
B)False
25
As identified in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," in the 1970s the author found that since 1900 in Latin America:
A)efforts to democratize autocratic regimes largely succeeded.
B)democracy uniformly flourished.
C)no efforts to democratize governments succeeded.
D)about two-thirds of the efforts to democratize failed.
26
As reported in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," since democratization occurred, in many countries:
A)nothing has changed.
B)there have been significant changes in power relations and economic equality.
C)there has been more decent treatment of citizens by authorities and a sense of greater personal freedom.
D)the government reinstalled autocratic regimes.
27
As claimed in "Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings," disappointment in recently-attained democracy is a serious threat to a fledgling democracy.
A)True
B)False
28
According to "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," most scholars have attributed the stability of Arab dictatorships to two common factors: the military-security complex and state control over:
A)the economy.
B)religion.
C)education.
D)emigration.
29
As noted in "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," both Egypt and Tunisia are overwhelmingly:
A)Sufi.
B)Sunni.
C)Coptic Christian.
D)Shiite.
30
As maintained in "Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring," most Middle East experts came to believe that Arab armies and security services would eventually break with their rulers.
A)True
B)False
31
As established in "Transitional Failure in Egypt and Tunisia," the interim governments of Egypt and Tunisia were set up:
A)to appease the United Nations.
B)by their deposed predecessors.
C)with no thought of the need for immediate elections.
D)as caretakers to organize quick elections.
32
As evaluated in "Transitional Failure in Egypt and Tunisia," the lesson of Tunisia and Egypt for countries likely to enter transition soon is that it is impossible to:
A)please all of one's neighboring countries.
B)organize elections in a few months.
C)preserve peace without a free electoral process.
D)give legitimacy to an interim government.
33
As suggested in "Transitional Failure in Egypt and Tunisia," one thing Egypt would be well-advised to do is to act on some ad hoc decisions to pacify protesters.
A)True
B)False
34
As pointed out in "Advanced Democracies and the New Politics," over the last quarter century, people in advanced industrial democracies are decreasingly:
A)signing petitions.
B)joining lobbying groups.
C)voting.
D)engaging in unconventional forms of political action.
35
In discussing advocacy democracy, the authors of "Facing the Challenge of Semi-Authoritarian States" contend that:
A)it is a form of traditional lobbying.
B)it only involves exchange of information.
C)it concentrates on standard channels of informal interest-group persuasion.
D)its expansion is undeniable.
36
As stated in "Facing the Challenge of Semi-Authoritarian States," "sunshine" provisions are in keeping with Edmund Burke's view of the role of elected representatives.
A)True
B)False
37
According to "Capitalism and Democracy," in most places, capitalism and democracy are:
A)interrelated systems.
B)entirely separate entities.
C)twin goals for which governments strive.
D)different terms for the same set of values.
38
As discussed in "Capitalism and Democracy," all of the following political thinkers share the belief that modern capitalism, with the dominance of the large corporation, produces a defective or impaired form of democracy except:
A)Charles E. Lindblom.
B)Robert A. Dahl.
C)Mancur Olson.
D)Joseph Schumpeter.
39
Adam Smith believed that a good government is a minimal government, as noted in "Capitalism and Democracy."
A)True
B)False
40
As maintained in "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" the feature that makes modern representative democracy distinctive from earlier forms of democracy is:
A)due process rights.
B)universal suffrage.
C)naturalization processes for immigrants.
D)freedom of the press.
41
The first democratic institution to develop, according to "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" was:
A)a written constitution.
B)freedom of expression.
C)elections to a legislature.
D)private political organizations.
42
Modern democracies, as asserted in "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?" rarely fall short of established democratic criteria.
A)True
B)False
43
Youth NGOs, as maintained in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were crucial to the democratic revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine in all of the following areas except:
A)mobilizing the protestors.
B)providing logistical support for the protests.
C)soliciting foreign monetary assistance for the protests.
D)forming the first wave of protestors themselves.
44
The two key social groups that made the Orange Revolution in Ukraine a success, as described in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were young people and:
A)unionized workers.
B)private businessmen.
C)foreign speculators.
D)dissatisfied civil servants.
45
Both Otpor and yellow Pora, as reported in "Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in Democratic Revolutions," were successful in fielding candidates for the Serbian and Ukrainian parliaments.
A)True
B)False
46
As shown in "Online Activism," cultural activism is concerned with:
A)corruption and the rights of disaffected groups.
B)values, morality, and lifestyles.
C)access to technology and technological developments.
D)human rights and political reform.
47
As noted in "Online Activism," Charter 08 was:
A)a large-scale nationalistic cyber-protest.
B)a cyber-protest over the 2003 death of a migrant worker in Guangzhou City.
C)an example of "hacktivism."
D)an online petition calling for democratic reform.
48
As cited in "Online Activism," because of China's tight control over the internet, there is less political activism than cultural, social, and nationalistic activism.
A)True
B)False
49
As maintained in "Smart Dictators Don't Quash the Internet," what destroyed Hosni Mubarak was:
A)the Internet.
B)his ignorance of the Internet.
C)his associates' subversive use of the Internet.
D)his obsession with the Internet.
50
As related in "Smart Dictators Don't Quash the Internet," Mubarak's associates switched off the Internet for a few days, but only after the online movement had gained an impressive offline momentum in:
A)the Sinai Peninsula.
B)Shaiyb al-Banat.
C)Port Said.
D)Tahrir Square.
51
As pointed out in "Smart Dictators Don't Quash the Internet," Mubarak's only foray into the world of Internet control was to beat up and jail bloggers—a tactic that only helped to publicize their cause.
A)True
B)False
52
As addressed in "China's Cyberposse," the prevailing narrative in the West about the Chinese Internet is the story of:
A)freedom.
B)rebellion.
C)propaganda.
D)censorship.
53
As identified in "China's Cyberposse," Ben Du is the head of interactive communities at the Beijing headquarters of the Internet forum:
A)Mop.
B)Sponge.
C)Broom.
D)Vac.
54
According to "China's Cyberposse," China is the only place in the world with a nearly universal recognition (among Internet users) of the concept of the human-flesh search.
A)True
B)False
55
As noted in "In Belated Inauguration, Ivory Coast's President Urges Unity," Alassane Ouattara, the current president of the Ivory Coast, was formerly:
A)an economist and banker.
B)a writer and teacher.
C)an archaeologist and museum curator.
D)a gambler and petty thief.
56
As identified in "In Belated Inauguration, Ivory Coast's President Urges Unity," Yamoussoukro is the native village of Ivory Coast's founding president:
A)Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
B)Aruna Dindane.
C)Tiken Jah Fakoly.
D)Guillaume Soro.
57
According to "In Belated Inauguration, Ivory Coast's President Urges Unity," ultimately, it was the French missile attacks against President Laurent Gbagbo's heavy-weapons installations that led to his defeat.
A)True
B)False
58
As disclosed in "Tangled Webs," in Italy, institutions are weakened by the conflicts of interest that pop up everywhere, and the biggest conflict of all in 2011 was in the country's largest television network, which was owned by:
A)a crime syndicate.
B)Vatican City.
C)the Democratic Party.
D)the prime minister.
59
As stated in "Tangled Webs," breaking up the Christian Democrats' monopoly on power was achieved by the so-called:
A)dirty linens trials.
B)clean hands trials.
C)muddy feet trials.
D)spotless records trials.
60
As observed in "Tangled Webs," the problems of the Italian economy are substantially the same as they were 15 years ago.
A)True
B)False
61
As pointed out in "The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010," Costa Rica's first woman president, elected February 7, 2010, is:
A)Mayra Gonzalez Leon.
B)Sonia Solis Umaña.
C)Mirna Patricia Perez Hegg.
D)Laura Chinchilla Miranda.
62
As identified in "The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010," the three major parties in Costa Rica include all of the following, except the:
A)National Liberation Party.
B)Libertarian Movement.
C)United Social Christian Party.
D)Civic Action Party.
63
According to "The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010," the discontinued practice of voters dipping their index finger into indelible ink once they had voted was revived in Costa Rica for the 2010 elections.
A)True
B)False
64
As stated in "The Legislative and Presidential Elections in Indonesia in 2009," Indonesian parties and parliaments are now at the center of political power, thereby signifying one of the most profound changes in comparison with the period 1966–1998, known as Suharto's:
A)Closed Regime.
B)New Order.
C)Old School.
D)Progressive Era.
65
As identified in "The Legislative and Presidential Elections in Indonesia in 2009," after the 1999 elections, three of Indonesia's five largest parties were Islamic, including all of the following, except the:
A)National Mandate Party.
B)United Development Party.
C)Party of Functional Groups.
D)National Awakening Party.
66
As reported in "The Legislative and Presidential Elections in Indonesia in 2009," for the most part, Indonesia's 2008–2009 campaign was conducted peacefully, with violence occurring only in provinces with special autonomy status.
A)True
B)False
67
As maintained in "The Resilient Authoritarians," one of China's gradual reforms that led to its economic growth was to:
A)promote free speech.
B)loosen trade restrictions.
C)legalize private entrepreneurial activity.
D)privatize the banking system.
68
As brought out in "The Resilient Authoritarians," from 1978 on the aim of the Chinese government was to:
A)transition to a liberal democratic state.
B)create a capitalist economy in a communist state.
C)reinforce the collectivist state with reform programs.
D)prop up the autocracy with stricter social controls on its population.
69
As stated in "The Resilient Authoritarians," the nondemocratic Chinese government is an example of insufficient political development.
A)True
B)False
70
As quoted in "Satisfaction with Democracy: Do Institutions Matter?," the observation that, "To support the Ins when things are going well; to support the Outs when they seem to be going badly, this . . . is the essence of popular government" was written more than 50 years ago by:
A)Walter Lipmann.
B)Hubert Humphrey.
C)Henry Kissinger.
D)Walter Cronkite.
71
As assessed in "Satisfaction with Democracy: Do Institutions Matter?," because of interdependencies, it is generally not feasible to disentangle the impact of different system characteristics:
A)within a proportional system.
B)within a majoritarian system.
C)at the micro level.
D)at the macro level.
72
As pointed out in "Satisfaction with Democracy: Do Institutions Matter?," there is a notably strong relationship between proportional systems and perceived representation.
A)True
B)False
73
As identified in "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," in the Netherlands in 2006, Geert Wilders formed the far-right:
A)Christian Democrat Appeal (CDA).
B)People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
C)Party of Freedom (PPV).
D)Dutch Socialist Party (SP).
74
As mentioned in "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," the Dutch word that refers to the decriminalized provision of vice is:
A)volkskrant.
B)grolsch.
C)gedogen.
D)minderheid.
75
According to "The Famous Dutch (In)Tolerance," the majority of Dutch immigrants are Muslims.
A)True
B)False
76
As identified in "When Politics Is Not Just a Man's Game: Women's Representation and Political Engagement," of the 35 countries studied by the authors, 8 employed legislative gender quotas or reserved seats in parliament at the time of the survey, including all of the following, except:
A)Korea.
B)Peru.
C)Belgium.
D)Greece.
77
As specified in "When Politics Is Not Just a Man's Game: Women's Representation and Political Engagement," all but five of the countries in the authors' study have electoral systems that are based on:
A)proportional representation.
B)majoritarianism.
C)universal suffrage.
D)restricted distribution.
78
As reported in "When Politics Is Not Just a Man's Game: Women's Representation and Political Engagement," certain evidence suggests any positive impact associated with women's initial presence as candidates may be offset by dissatisfaction when women see female candidates losing.
A)True
B)False
79
As noted in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," out of 193 nations worldwide, the number of women at the pinnacle of power as elected heads of state or government is:
A)3
B)9
C)22
D)68
80
As examined in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," it is generally found that the parties more sympathetic toward gender equality are:
A)representative of a wide range of ideologies.
B)in the center.
C)on the left.
D)on the right.
81
As pointed out in "The Impact of Electoral Reform on Women's Representation," compared with size of the foreign-born population, ethnic minorities are represented almost proportionally in the Tweede Kamer.
A)True
B)False
82
As related in "Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout," Funk links community size to rates of electoral participation, with her theoretical explanation for this relationship focusing on:
A)education.
B)gender dynamics.
C)social pressure.
D)family histories.
83
As cited in "Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout," in a 2000 analysis, Oliver concludes that, "City boundaries define communities, and smaller places:
A)are civically richer."
B)define individuals."
C)are essentially the same as their larger counterparts."
D)are infinitely more insular and self-serving."
84
As brought out in "Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout," there is evidence to suggest that not only does social pressure appear to promote voting in a single election, but there are also indications that the mobilizing effects of social pressure can persist in subsequent elections.
A)True
B)False
85
According "The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament?", if the offices of head of government and head of state were separated, the head of government would:
A)be subject to more stringent behavioral expectations.
B)no longer attract monolithic press coverage.
C)have less public accountability.
D)attract enormous public attention.
86
As reported in "The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament?", the major advantage of the parliamentary system proposed by the author is that it would:
A)reduce the government's cost of holding elections.
B)reduce the importance of political parties.
C)heighten the capacity for voters to evaluate government performance.
D)improve the personal integrity of candidates for office.
87
As noted in "The Case for a Multi-Party U.S. Parliament?", a party dues structure would rebuild the political parties as functioning institutions.
A)True
B)False
88
Many judges, as maintained in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," believe that reliance on foreign and international law inevitably comes into tension with:
A)their country's own constitution.
B)the evolving flexibility of legal opinion.
C)public sentiment in their own country.
D)the value of national sovereignty.
89
The phenomenon of national courts referring to foreign and international law in making their decisions, as put forth in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," can be seen most particularly in all of the following areas except:
A)individual freedoms, such as speech and religion.
B)counterterrorism measures.
C)protection of the environment.
D)the status of asylum seekers.
90
Globalization, as asserted in "Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts," is placing increasing pressure on the domestic branches of governments to conform to global standards.
A)True
B)False
91
As noted in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," the author states that the rule of law in Russia was:
A)first backed by the czars.
B)enforced by the communist party.
C)endorsed by Mikhail Gorbachev when he called for a "rule-of-law-based state."
D)abolished during Perestroika.
92
As stated in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," Russians will now generally use the courts:
A)when they are in a dispute with someone who is similarly situated as far as power is concerned.
B)only when they must confront people more powerful than they are.
C)only when they must confront people less powerful than they are.
D)for all attempts to seek redress.
93
As concluded in "Rule of Law, Russian-Style," the weakness of civil society in Russia is a hindrance to more robust rule of law.
A)True
B)False
94
According to "Getting the Military out of Pakistani Politics," although ending the insurgency in Afghanistan will require more than just eliminating militant sanctuaries in Pakistan, the Pakistani military's reluctance to target Afghan militants in North Waziristan has been a particularly sore point in its relationship with:
A)the United Nations.
B)Afghans.
C)the United States.
D)Pakistanis.
95
As set forth in "Getting the Military out of Pakistani Politics," if the "third wave" of Pakistan's democratization in the 1970s and 1980s had any lesson, it is that democracy does not necessarily require natural-born democrats or:
A)an agenda of liberal-driven ideals.
B)a storybook view of public conscience.
C)a mythically selfless political leadership.
D)the pseudo-altruism of Western interference.
96
As expressed in "Getting the Military out of Pakistani Politics," although Pakistan's army is professional, it has no respect for the political system.
A)True
B)False
97
As identified in "Thailand: From Violence to Reconciliation?", the activist members of the UDD are known by their characteristic:
A)orange flags.
B)blue jackets.
C)red shirts.
D)green sashes.
98
As noted in "Thailand: From Violence to Reconciliation?", Ratchaprasong is an elite district in Bangkok that contains major banks, shopping malls, and the:
A)National Museum of Thailand.
B)Thai Stock Exchange.
C)American Embassy.
D)home of two members of the king's family.
99
As stated in "Thailand: From Violence to Reconciliation?", the 2006 popular uprising in Bangkok against Thaksin was led by the well-regarded Mirror Foundation.
A)True
B)False
100
As set forth in "In Britain, Phone Hacking Sullies Famed Scotland Yard," Scotland Yard is a globally renowned symbol of policing, immortalized in the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and:
A)William Hague.
B)Erle Stanley Gardner.
C)Allan Pinkerton.
D)Agatha Christie.
101
As noted in "In Britain, Phone Hacking Sullies Famed Scotland Yard," the phone-hacking scandal comes at a time when British law enforcement needs to be gearing up for a massive operation for the 2012:
A)Olympic Games.
B)elections.
C)World Cup.
D)peace summit.
102
As reported in "In Britain, Phone Hacking Sullies Famed Scotland Yard," the phone-hacking scandal has uncovered woefully corrupt beat cops willing to accept bribes in excess of $160,000 to pass on juicy tidbits to the press.
A)True
B)False
103
As noted in "The True Clash of Civilizations," the cultural dividing line between the West and the Muslim world centers on:
A)perceptions of democracy.
B)value placed on individualism.
C)money.
D)gender.
104
As pointed out in "The True Clash of Civilizations," the one Muslim country that did not think highly of democracy was:
A)Albania.
B)Indonesia.
C)Pakistan.
D)Azerbaijan.
105
According to "The True Clash of Civilizations," Muslim states have uniquely low levels of tolerance on the issue of sexual orientation.
A)True
B)False
106
As mentioned in "The Weekend Interview with Bernard Lewis: 'The Tyrannies Are Doomed,'" the title of a 2001 book (at the printer when the 9/11 terrorists struck) by historian Bernard Lewis about the decline of the Muslim world is:
A)Taming the Taliban.
B)Ports of Call.
C)What Went Wrong?
D)Don't You Believe It.
107
As pointed out in "The Weekend Interview with Bernard Lewis: 'The Tyrannies Are Doomed,'" the closest Arabic word to our concept of liberty is the word for:
A)justice.
B)relief.
C)wilderness.
D)flotation.
108
As disclosed in "The Weekend Interview with Bernard Lewis: 'The Tyrannies Are Doomed,'" after 9/11, the White House and the Pentagon refused Lewis's offer of insight and experience.
A)True
B)False
109
As claimed in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," electoral authoritarianism is:
A)a single-party government.
B)a nondemocratic form of governance that allows for multiparty elections.
C)an example of an oligarchy.
D)an example of liberal democracy.
110
As described in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," the role of the legislature in an authoritarian regime is to:
A)write and pass laws based on the will of the people.
B)write laws that the state imposes upon citizens.
C)serve as the voice of the people.
D)unilaterally enforce the law.
111
As identified in "Authoritarianism's Last Line of Defense," while authoritarian regimes control most of government and society, elections are usually considered sacrosanct and not controlled by the state.
A)True
B)False
112
As cited in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in many countries democratic competition is undermined by:
A)unequal access to state institutions and the media.
B)electoral fraud.
C)authoritarian regimes.
D)a corrupt judiciary.
113
As presented in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in many nondemocratic countries the national media is:
A)wholly owned and controlled by the state.
B)a public good.
C)often controlled by the government opposition.
D)independent and free.
114
As noted in "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," in Cameroon it is illegal for the ruling party to use state monies to fund operating expenses.
A)True
B)False
115
As stated in "Democracy in Cyberspace," the defining trend of the times is:
A)critical infrastructure.
B)cybersecurity.
C)digital technology.
D)globalization.
116
As noted in "Democracy in Cyberspace," in 2001, protesters sent text messages to organize the demonstrations that forced President Joseph Estrada from office in:
A)the Philippines.
B)Ecuador.
C)Chile.
D)Portugal.
117
According to "Democracy in Cyberspace," of the hundreds of millions who blog in their own languages, there are fewer than 1 million in China.
A)True
B)False
118
According to "Not Ready for Prime Time," the chief rationale for inviting the world's major emerging powers to join the world's ruling councils is that they
A)matter more today than they did at the time the ruling bodies were created.
B)represent the most populous nations on earth.
C)represent the councils' Eurocentric, Judeo-Christian worldview.
D)are essential for a retooled international order.
119
As reported in "Not Ready for Prime Time," the accession of Brazil, China, India and South Africa would undermine the principles and practices of the current world order because these countries
A)value universal values above national sovereignty.
B)are quick to criticize the internal policies of other countries.
C)do not support the notion that a strong international regime should promote human rights and democracy.
D)are not representative democracies.
120
As noted in "Not Ready for Prime Time," the current emerging powers may be political and diplomatic powerhouses, but they remain economic lightweights.
A)True
B)False





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