Chapter 11 Practice Quiz

International Politics and Foreign Policy
. Individuals who organize the illegal transport of immigrants into the United States are called ________.

. A system in which the market decides the relative values of national monies is called a ________ exchange rate system.

. The author of "The Spirit of the Laws" is ________.

. Sovereignty as we know it today emerged in 1648 with the ________.

. The international organization created to promote co-operation among the independent nations of Africa is the ________.

. The method of distinguishing comparable strengths of political units is known as ________.

. APEC is an example of a ________.

. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, created in the postwar era, was later absorbed into the ________.

. Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg Sørenson define globalization as "the intensification of economic, political, social, and ________ relations across borders."

. The ________ is made up of highly industrialized states.

. "Politics Among Nations" was written by ________.

. The political or economic situation in which one side has to lose in order for another to gain is known as ________.

. Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech advocated ________.

. The Marxist term for the political, legal, cultural, and religious justifications, structures, and practices of an economic system is ________.

. ________ was criticized as "appeasement."

. Nearly ________ per cent of Canadians live within ________ kilometres of the US border.

. Canada's GDP of US$1.7 trillion ranks ________ in the world.

. Approximately ________ million people cross the Canada-US border every year.

. Canada is sometimes referred to as the ________.

. Territorial integrity is the benchmark of the ________.

. President Trump's rationale for the border wall with Mexico, is to mitigate illegal migration and ________.

. A Pew Research Centre poll conducted in January 2018 showed that ________ of Americans opposed Trump's proposal to build a border wall with Mexico.

. The term ________ is used to describe the "shrinking" of the world, largely due to modern communications, into a more interconnected place where all people have a closer relationship and more frequent contact

. CUSMA is an international trade agreement between Canada, the United States and ________.

. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that, in 2016, the number of "forcibly displaced persons" in the world totalled over ________ people.

. Canadian Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "global village."

. The Occupy movement began in Amsterdam.

. Iran's population is heavily weighted towards people over the age of 30.

. There are 193 member states in the United Nations.

. NAFTA is an example of a "subsystemic" grouping.

. NATO was formed in 1944 in an effort to end World War II.

. Multinational corporations are non-governmental actors.

. The 1950s were branded the decade of "détente."

. Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1980.

. Structural anarchy means there is no political authority greater than the sovereign state in international relations.

. Behaviouralists seek a value-oriented approach to politics.

. April Glaspie was the US ambassador to Iraq in 2003.

. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

. The Occupy movement was praised for clearly conveying its central goals to the world.

. NGOs are becoming less prominent in international affairs due to the growing nature of world problems.

. The 2018 partial government shutdown was the longest in American history.

. Under the Holy Roman Empire, Europe shared a religion, a culture, a written language, and, to a certain extent, political institutions.

. Patriotism and nationalism, are rarely used interchangeably.

. Walmart reported $485 billion in revenue in 2017; this is significantly more than the GNP of Finland in the same year.

. In 2018, there were approximately 200,000 military personnel engaged in NATO activities.

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