1. The Nation-State system originated in

1645

1646

1648

1789


2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on

10 May 1948

10 June 1948

24 October 1948

10 December 1948


3. Which of the following dates refers to 'Black Tuesday'

3 October, 1983

11 November, 1989

11 September, 2001

31 March, 2007


4. Who wrote the 'Twenty Years Crisis 1919 1939'

E.H. Carr

H.J. Morgenthau

Frederick L. Schuman

F.P. Walters


5. The USSR intervened in Afghanistan in

1970

1972

1975

1979


6. ASEAN was formed in

1961

1963

1965

1967


7. Under which article of the UN Charter are the decisions of the UN Security Council binding

Article 2

Article 11

Article 25

Article 39


8. Which of the following treaties has the official title "Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate Range and Short Range Missiles"

INF

SALT I

SALT II

START I


9. Author of "An Agenda for Peace" is

Robert S. Boyd

Francis Fukuyama

Boutros-Boutros Ghali

Richard A. Falk


10. Which of the following countries is India's largest trading partner in goods

USA

China

Russia

Japan


11. "National Interest is defined in terms of Power" who said this

David Easton

Thomas Hobbes

H.J. Morgenthau

K.W. Thompson


12. Neo-Realism came to be developed under the influence of

Morgenthau

Keneth Waltz

Robert Gilpin

Ramond Aron


13. The chief exponent of communication approach in International Relations is

Norbert Wiener

Karl Deutsch

Joseph Nogee

A.L. Burns


14. The 'New Great Debate' is between

North South Dialogue

South South Co-operation

Science and Traditionalism

Idealism and Realism


15. Who classified elements of National Power as permanent and temporary

H.J. Morgenthau

Palmer and Perkins

Woulf Couloumbis

J.H. Wolfe


16. Who said "Security and Peace are the main purposes of Balance of Power"

Charles Lerch

Ernst Haas

M. Wright

V.V. Dyke


17. Triple Alliance was formed in

1880

1881

1882

1883


18. The Collective Security System has been laid down in the Charter of the UN contains

10 Articles

13 Articles

15 Articles

17 Articles


19. "The Uniting for Peace Resolution" was adopted by the UN Security Council in the year

1949

1950

1951

1955


20. The concept of "Pre-emptive attack" was advocated by

France

Germany

Russia

United States


21. The book "Ideology or Balance of Power" was written by

Morton Kaplan

William G. Carleton

Iris Claude Jr.

V.V. Dyke


22. According to Carl Friederich "The Balancer is a nation or a group of nations which plays the role as

Mediator

Negotiator

Conciliator

The laughing third party


23. Who said that "Geography determines the foreign policy of the country"

Rudolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Napoleon

Bismark


24. "Diplomacy is the promotion of national interest by peaceful means" who made this statement

H.J. Morgenthau

Harold Nicolson

Quincy Wright

K.M. Panickar


25. 'Bus Diplomacy' is associated with

Bill Clinton

George Bush

A.B. Vajpayee

Manmohan Singh


26. Trizonia was the former name of

Hungary

West Germany

East Germany

Yugoslavia


27. The word Cold War was first time used by

Bernard Barua

Lippman

Truman

V. Putin


28. Who said that, "the imbalance of power and not the balance of power is the preserver of peace"

Quincy Wright

John Herz

Organski

Palmer and Perkins


29. Who among the following is one of the founders of Hamas

Ibrahim Hamid

Sheikh Musah Yousef

Sheikh Hassan Yousef

Abdullah Barghuti


30. Shuttle diplomacy was popularised by

John Foster Dulles

Henry Kissinger

John McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

31. Assertion A The United States is the sole super power in the world today, but it would be too simplistic to describe the global system as unipolar.

Reason R The United States is the dominant power in the world today, but the growing importance of China and other countries does not warrant use of the label of unipolarity to the existing configuration of power in the world.


Codes

A is correct, but R is wrong.

Both A and R are correct.

A is wrong, but R is correct.

Both A and R are wrong.

32. Assertion A The failure of the League of Nations was due to its inability to put the collective security blueprint into practice.

Reason R In spite of being an organisation based on the principle of collective security, the leading members of the League of Nations, namely Britain and France, were influenced by the Balance of Power considerations.

Codes

A is correct, but R is wrong.

Both A and R are wrong.

A is wrong, but R is correct.

Both A and R are correct.

33. Assertion A The role of MNCs as non-state actors is becoming increasingly important.

Reason R Notwithstanding the power of MNCs, some of whose budgets dwarf even those of quite a few States, only States including those whose relative position is weak are the genuine actors on the world stage.

Codes
Both A and R are correct.

Both A and R are wrong.

A is correct, but R is wrong.

A is wrong, but R is correct.


34. Assertion A Under the principle of collective security, security ceases to be an individual concern of States.

Reason R Under Balance of Power too, security will become a collective concern.

Codes
Both A and R are wrong.

Both A and R are correct.

A is wrong, but R is correct.

A is correct, but R is wrong.

35. Assertion A India United States strategic relations are moving in the direction of a formal alliance.

Reason R The Chinese "String of Pearls" strategy is a strategic threat to the countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Codes
Both A and R are correct.

A is correct, but R is wrong.

A is wrong, but R is correct.

Both A and R are wrong.

36. Arrange the following UN Conferences on international environment in their chronological order, by using the code given below

I. Stockholm
II. Johannesburg
III. Nairobi
IV. Rio de Janeiro

Code

III, IV, II

IV, III, II

IV, III, II, I

III, IV, II

37. Arrange the following regional organisations in order of their formation. Use the code given below

I. OAU
II. OAS
III. EEC
IV. ASEAN

Code

II, III, IV

IV, II, III, I

III, IV, II

II, IV, III


38. Arrange the following events in the order in which they occurred. Use the code given below

I. Bay of Pigs invasion.
II. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
III. Nixon's Visit to the People's Republic of China.
IV. Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia.

Code

IV, III, II

IV, II, III

III, II, IV

II, IV, III

39. Arrange the following alliance systems in order of their formation. Use the codes given below

I. NATO
II. ANZUS
III. Warsaw Pact
IV. SEATO
Code

III, IV, II

II, III, IV

IV, II, III

II, IV, III

40. Arrange the following agreements in their chronological order. Use the codes given below

I. SALT
II. SALT II
III. INF
IV. CTBT

Code

III, IV, II

II, III, IV

IV, II, III

II, IV, III

41. Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared. Use the codes given below

I. The Anarchial Society A Study of Order in World Politics.
II. Neorealism and its Critics.
III. Theory of International Politics.
IV. The Politics of War.

Code


IV, III, II

III, II, IV

IV, III, II

II, IV, III, I


42. Match the names in List I with items in List II by using the codes given below

List I List II
a. H.J. i. Post-Morgenthau Modernism
b. Kenneth ii. Classical Waltz Realism
c. M. Foucault iii. Neo-Realism
d. A. Wendt iv. Constructivism

Code abcd


ii iii i iv

i iiiiv ii

ii iv i iii

iii ii iv i

43. Match the following leaders in List I with their countries in List II using the codes given below

List I List II

a. Julius Nyerere i. Zambia
b. Kwame Nkrumah ii. Kenya
c. Jomo Kennyatta iii. Tanzania
d. Kenneth Kaunda iv. Ghana

Code abcd


iii iv ii i

ii iii i iv

iii ii iv i

iv i iii ii

44. Match the following from List I to List II by using the codes given below

List I List II

a. Frantz Fanon i. Philosophy of Revolution
b. Gamel Abdul ii. Facing Mount Nasser Kenya
c. Kwame iii. The Wretched Nkrumah in the Earth
d. Jomo iv. Africa must Kenyatta unite

Code abcd

iv ii i iii

iii i iv ii

ii iii i iv

iii i ii iv

45. Match the following using the codes given below

List I List II

a. ASEAN i. South East Asia
b. Cambodia ii. Phnom Penh
c. Yudhoyona iii. Indonesia
d. Li Peng iv. China

Code a b c d


i ii iv iii

i ii iii iv

ii iii iv i

iii iv i ii