Introduction to International Relations

An example of a Nongovernmental Organization is __________________?

• United Nations

• McDonalds

• The Red Cross

• World Bank

An example of an Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) is _____________________?

• Doctors without Borders

• Nike

• United Nations

• The Red Cross

You, as an individual, are a global actor.

• True

• False

What is an organized community living under a single government which has exclusive control over its own territory called?

• Nation-State

• Nation

• State

• Territory

What is a people who share similar cultural characteristics including language, customs, religion, ancestry, origin, history called?

• Nation-state

• State

• Nation

• Territory

What is a political state whose borders encompass the entirety of a nation with the great majority of the state sharing the same culture and are conscious of it.

• Nation-state

• Nation

• State

• Territory

Before the nation-state what was almost constant in the grey areas between large empires?

• Trade

• Warfare

• Border Walls

• Cooperation between neighbors

The Treaty of Westphalia ended fighting between ________________?

• Spain and France

• Muslims and Christians

• Catholics and Protestants

• France and England

The Treaty of Westphalia did all of the following except __________________?

• Sovereignty was made into law

• Citizenship was made into law

• State borders were rigidly defined

• Religious figures (such as the pope) became the main unit for international diplomacy.

Kurds are a sizable minority population in all of the following countries except ________________?

• Iran

• Iraq

• Syria

• Turkey

• Saudi Arabia