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Chapter 6 - Nonstate Actors and the Quest for Global Community
1. Responsible sovereignty is a principle that requires states to cooperate across borders to protect global resources and
address transnational threats.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: NonState Actors in World Politics
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: WPTT.BLAN.17.6.1 - LO6.1
2. Nongovernmental organizations are uncommon and tend to be fairly uniform in their goals and membership.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. The United Nations is an example of a “universal membership” IGO.

a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Prominent Intergovernmental Organizations
4. The United Nations Security Council is made up of five permanent members and 10 nonpermanent members that
serve two-year terms.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. The United States has been eager to expand the permanent membership of the Security Council as long as the
additional members are U.S. allies.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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6. Under the current United Nations’ budget, the poorest 17 percent of countries contribute less than 1 percent of the
budget.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. Although technically the World Trade Organization (WTO) violates the international norm of nonintervention, its
members have voluntarily surrendered some of their sovereignty under the assumption that it would produce greater
gains than losses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
8. One of the purposes of the World Bank is to address poverty through the Poverty Reduction Strategy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
9. Members of the European Parliament today are directly elected by citizens of the EU’s member states and have the
power to overturn acts of the European Commission.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
10. Pooled sovereignty means sovereign governments continue to make decisions as opposed to collective decision
making by an authorized IGO.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False

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11. Since Europe began steps toward integration in the 1950s, several other regions have created intergovernmental
organizations to pursue economic, political, and military goals.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. Religious groups are important nonstate actors on the global stage.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Prominent Types of Nongovernmental Organizations
13. Ethnicity is synonymous with race.

a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. In contrast to the unitary actor model, many states are actually composed of a variety of ethnic groups seeking a
greater share of power within the state.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. Indigenous peoples are those people within a state that control the decision-making apparatus of government.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False

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16. International terrorism is one possible effect of an extreme militant religious movement.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Malevolent Nonstate Actors
17. Because global security is so well integrated and organized, it is a simple matter to deal with terrorist threats or
transnational crime organizations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
18. While realists often focus exclusively on the behavior of sovereign states, liberal and constructivist theorists are
interested in the emergence of important and powerful nonstate actors in the global system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Nonstate Actors and the Future of Global Politics
19. MNCs are increasingly setting up regional headquarters in Global South countries to take advantage of lower wages
and high skills.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
20. MNCs financial clout rivals or exceeds that of most countries.

a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

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21. What distinguishes intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)?
a. Members of IGOs are states; members of NGOs are individuals.
b. IGOs deal with treaties; NGOs deal with humanitarian issues.
c. IGOs began with the Treaty of Westphalia; NGOs came about at the end of WWII.
d. These terms can be used interchangeably.
ANSWER: a
22. Which of the following is NOT true of IGOs?

a. Their members are governments of states.
b. They meet at regular intervals.
c. They have established rules for making decisions.
d. They are generally considered less important than NGOs.
ANSWER: d
23. Which of the following best describes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
a. It is an ethnopolitical movement.
b. It is a multinational corporation.
c. It is a religious movement.
d. It is a military alliance.
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: Prominent Intergovernmental Organization
24. How are contributions to the UN’s budget allocated among member states?
a. Each member state pays an equal share of the budget.
b. Allocations are based on a state’s ability to pay.
c. Members contribute based on their state’s total population.
d. The United States funds the entire budget.
ANSWER: b

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25. Which of the following is an objective of the UN?

a. Maintaining international peace and security
b. Functioning as a center for harmonizing the actions of nations
c. Encouraging respect for human rights and freedoms
d. All of these are objectives of the UN.
ANSWER: d
26. Which of the following is NOT a component of the UN?

a. International Court of Justice
b. Security Council
c. Council of Ministers
d. General Assembly
ANSWER: c
27. Territories that have not achieved self-rule are supervised under the administration of the _______ within the UN.
a. General Assembly
b. Trusteeship Council
c. Security Council
d. Secretariat
ANSWER: b
28. The World Trade Organization (WTO) originated with which post-WWII treaty?
a. The League of Nations
b. The Treaty of Versailles
c. General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)
d. The Interstate Commerce Clause
ANSWER: c

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29. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
a. It is a full-fledged intergovernmental organization with a formal decision-making structure.
b. It is mandated to manage disputes arising from its trading partners.
c. It is dominated by the great powers.
d. All of these are characteristics of the WTO.
ANSWER: d
30. Critics have been very critical of the International Monetary Fund because
a. it operates on a “onecountry, onevote” system.
b. it allocates loans with no conditions attached for improving economic practices.
c. it is opposed to privatization of state-owned enterprises.
d. it attaches strict conditions on its loans, imposing its ideology on government spending for countries who seek
loans.
ANSWER: d
31. The European Union and its security community is made up of states that have voluntarily given up some sovereignty
in exchange for cooperative outcomes. Which theory of international relations best fits this kind of state behavior?
a. Realist theory
b. Liberal theory
c. Feminist theory
d. String theory
ANSWER: b
32. Which of the following is NOT true of the European Union (EU)?
a. It began as a response to the widespread devastation of World War II.
b. The early organizations centered on trade development.
c. It has eagerly pursued new membership in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
d. There is division between Western and Eastern Europe raising the possibility of a split between two opposed
coalitions.
ANSWER: c

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33. The agreement by European states to delegate some of their domestic decision-making power to the European
Union is an example of __________.
a. the nonintervention norm
b. pooled sovereignty
c. realpolitik
d. devolution
ANSWER: b
34. Regional IGOs tend to fail when participating nations

a. lack geographical proximity.
b. have uneven economic growth.
c. have different political systems.
d. All of these are true.
ANSWER: d
35. Which of the following is true of many, if not most, states?

a. Most states are divided internally.
b. Most states are highly penetrated from abroad.
c. Most states are not tightly unified.
ANSWER: d
36. Which of the following is NOT a potential downside to the proliferation of multinational corporations (MNCs)?
a. MNCs can provide a source of capital to developing countries, as well as jobs and work training for
impoverished people in the Global South.
b. The rise of MNCs could contribute to job outsourcing, which is highly unpopular in the domestic economies of
the Global North.
c. MNCs sometimes attempt to interfere with the domestic policies of their host countries, a practice that many
consider inappropriate.
d. All of these are potential downsides to MNCs.
ANSWER: a

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37. Samuel P. Huntington predicted that a “clash of civilizations,” rather than interstate war, will occur in the future
because
a. states continue to become irrelevant in the face of the growing power of NGOs.
b. indigenous peoples are more war-like than state leaders.
c. ethnic groups have been purchasing a larger number of arms than states have.
d. people identify with and organize their activities around the cultural values of their particular civilization, not
their state.
ANSWER: d
38. Which of the following is true about a theocracy?

a. The country’s government is organized around a religious dogma.
b. Religion and state are separate and distinguishable.
c. In order for the state to thrive, it subordinates itself to the religion.
d. None has ever existed.
ANSWER: a
39. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of radical religious moments?

a. They are universalist.
b. They are exclusionist.
c. They are militant.
d. They focus more on spiritual, rather than secular, concerns such as social welfare.
ANSWER: d
40. The term irredentism refers to

a. the attempt by an ethnic group to reclaim territory by force so that the group is no longer separated by state
boundaries.
b. the departure of religious minorities from their countries of origin to escape persecution.
c. minority communities who live abroad but retain political ties to their homelands.
d. majority rule over ethnic minorities.
ANSWER: a

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41. Regarding MNCs and human rights conditions in their host country
a. MNCs are only concerned with profit; they are not concerned with human rights.
b. the governments of the home country of the MNCs are responsible for making sure MNCs do not violate
human rights in their hiring and labor practices.
c. MNCs are increasingly sensitive to human rights conditions because a greater respect for human rights
translates into reduced political risk and a more productive workforce.
d. the primary purpose of many MNCs is to improve human rights around the globe.
ANSWER: c
42. Which of the following best describes issue-advocacy NGOs?

a. They often have celebrities to represent their causes and gain political attention.
b. They are relatively weak on issues that involve military security.
c. They have more success persuading governments to inaction than they do making major policy changes.
ANSWER: d
43. Greenpeace is an example of a(n)

a. multinational corporation.
b. issue-advocacy group.
c. ethnopolitical movement.
d. collective security arrangement.
ANSWER: b
44. Premeditated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational, transnational groups, or clandestine
agents, usually intended to influence an audience is know as _____.
a. terrorism
b. transnational crime
c. 9/11
d. warfare
ANSWER: a

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45. If nonstate actors such as IGOs and NGOs continue to be able to exercise strong influence over state behavior in
the international system, then the old notion of the state as the only important actor will _____.
a. be proven correct
b. remain common
c. outlive other theories
d. become less accepted
ANSWER: d
46. Distinguish between intergovernmental and nongovernmental international organizations.
ANSWER: There are two main types of international nonstate actors, intergovernmental
organizations (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). What
distinguishes the two is that intergovernmental organizations are international
organizations whose members are states, whereas nongovernmental organizations are
associations composed of private individuals. Both types experienced a sharp
increase in their numbers during the twentieth century:
47. The World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund were each formed to deal
with specific international economic issues. (a) Explain the purpose of each organization and how effective it has
been. (b) Do these organizations infringe on state sovereignty?
ANSWER: The WTO is a full-fledged IGO with formal decision-making procedures. Mandated to
manage disputes arising from its trading partners, the WTO has been given authority to
enforce trading rules and to adjudicate trade disputes. Because Global South countries
often have difficulty borrowing money to finance projects aimed at promoting
economic growth, the bank offers them loans with lower interest rates and longer
repayment plans than they could typically obtain from commercial banks. Most
recently, the World Bank has set a goal to end extreme poverty throughout the world
by 2030. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a truly global IGO designed to
maintain currency exchange stability by promoting international monetary cooperation
and orderly exchange arrangements. Further, the IMF sometimes functions as a lender
of last resort for countries experiencing financial crises.

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48. The European Union could provide a successful model of political integration for other areas of the world. What is
unique about the situation of the EU that led to its success? What challenges would similar organizations need to
overcome to form such organizations?
ANSWER: The post-World War II European reform program sought the political integration
of Europe via a new supranational institution that transcended individual European
states—to bring about nothing less than the transformation of international relations.
The European Union is the premier example of the formation and integrative growth
of a supranational regional IGO. It has grown in eight expansions from six members
in 1951 to 28 in 2013.
49. Identify and evaluate the threat posed by terrorist and transnational crime groups.
ANSWER: terrorism is the premeditated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by

subnational, transnational groups, or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence
an audience. There are many terrorist organizations.
50. Debate the implications of nonstate actors for state sovereignty and world politics.
ANSWER: Nonstate nations are national or ethnic groups struggling to obtain power and/or
statehood. Transnational religious movements have a set of beliefs, practices, and ideas
administered politically by religious organizations to promote the worship of their
conception of a transcendent deity and its principles for conduct. Militant religious
movements politically active organizations based on strong religious convictions, whose
members are fanatically devoted to the global promotion of their religious beliefs.
Secession, or separatist revolts are a religious or ethnic minority’s efforts, often by
violent means, to gain independent statehood by separating territory from an established
sovereign state.
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3. The United Nations is an example of a “universal membership” IGO.

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13. Ethnicity is synonymous with race.

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20. MNCs financial clout rivals or exceeds that of most countries.

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22. Which of the following is NOT true of IGOs?

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25. Which of the following is an objective of the UN?

26. Which of the following is NOT a component of the UN?

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35. Which of the following is true of many, if not most, states?

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38. Which of the following is true about a theocracy?

39. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of radical religious moments?

40. The term irredentism refers to

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42. Which of the following best describes issue-advocacy NGOs?

43. Greenpeace is an example of a(n)

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46. Distinguish between intergovernmental and nongovernmental international organizations.

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