Week 3

'International orders' refers to...

• The central concept of the "English school".

• A network of INGOs, which co-operate to achieve particular political goals at the international level.

• Any association of distinct political communities that accept common rules, values, institutions.

• Regularized practices of exchange among discrete political units.

International society is regulated by...

• A benign form of cosmopolitan democracy.

• Imperial expansion.

• Diplomacy, law, and the balance of power.

• None of the answer options given are correct

Elements of international society can be found in...

• Medieval Christian Europe.

• Medieval Islam.

• Ancient China.

• Medieval Christian Europe, Medieval Islam, and Ancient China.

The Catholic Church...

• Made no contribution to just war theory.

• Is a form of subnational authority.

• Helped constitute the normative basis of international society.

• Both made no contribution to just war theory and helped to constitute the normative basis of international society.

Which of the following events contributed to the emergence of international society?

• Both exploration and colonization of the New World and The Protestant Reformation.

• The Protestant Reformation.

• Exploration and colonization of the New World.

• The Crusades.

Sceptical accounts of international society...

• ^{Believe both that it is a rhetorical cover for self-serving powerful states and argue that it is unable to cope with globalization.}

• Argue that it is unable to cope with globalization.

• Believe it to be a rhetorical cover for self-serving powerful states.

• Deny that international cooperation is possible.

Which of the following is not a challenge to international society posed directly by globalization?

• Global warming.

• American power.

• Interstate war.

• Dissolution of the bonds of political community.

Organized hypocrisy is...

• A term coined by political scientist Stephen Krasner to refer to sovereignty.

• A term coined by political scientist Stephen Krasner to refer to sovereignty, which is a caution against idealistic conceptions of international society or the legal fiction masking power relations between states.

• The legal fiction masking power relations between states.

• A caution against idealistic conceptions of international society.

The French and American Revolutions...

• Created new challenges to international society by raising the issue of nationalism.

• Led to the creation of the Concert of Europe.

• Led to the creation of the Concert of Europe.

• ^{Created new challenges to international society by raising the issue of nationalism while also leading to the creation of the Concert of Europe.}

Which of the following offers an alternative to international society as a way of organizing world politics?

• Hegemonic.

• Hierarchical.

• Imperial.

• Hierarchical, Hegemonic, and Imperial.