Government and Political Structure of the Region.d

Government and Political Structure of the Region.d

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Вопрос 1

The … is referred to as the epicentre of world crisis.

  1. Middle East
  2. Middle West
  3. MENA
  4. Asia
Вопрос 2

According to… the Middle East, once an independent civilisation, was turned, under imperialism

  1. Structuralist analyses
  2. Capacity analyses
  3. War analyses
  4. Financial analyses
Вопрос 3

Galtung’s (1971) structural model of Imperialism is feature of the …

  1. The Ottoman system
  2. Moon (1995)
  3. Marxism
  4. Pan-Arabism
Вопрос 4

According to… the effect of such a structure on the foreign policy making of dependent states is to create a ‘constrained consensuses from the overlap of local elites’ economic interests

  1. Moon (1995)
  2. The Ottoman system
  3. Marxism
  4. Pan-Arabism
Вопрос 5

OPEC is an acronym for

  1. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  2. NATO
  3. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Committee
  4. Organisation of Power Exporting Countries
Вопрос 6

Pan- Arabism allowed … to sufficiently roll back imperialist influence to establish a relatively

  1. Autonomous regional system
  2. Nasser’s Egypt
  3. Pan-Arabism
  4. The Ottoman system
Вопрос 7

… enjoined co-operation among Arab states

  1. Pan-Arabism
  2. Middle West
  3. MENA
  4. Asia
Вопрос 8

According to David (1991) … foreign policy decisions are a product of rational choice

  1. Pan-Arabism
  2. Autonomous regional system
  3. Nasser’s Egypt
  4. Pan-Arabism
Вопрос 9

… helped establish a relatively autonomous regional system, but had no mechanism for bridging the Arab-non-Arab gap.

  1. Pan-Arabism
  2. NATO
  3. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Committee
  4. Organisation of Power Exporting Countries
Вопрос 10

… is the traditionally dominant school of International Relations Theory

  1. Realism
  2. The Ottoman system
  3. Marxism
  4. Pan-Arabism
Вопрос 11

Structuralism, refers to the broad view, inspired by …

  1. Marxism
  2. Separatist
  3. GCC
  4. UN
Вопрос 12

The first major expression of Western expansion into the region was the growing threat to the

  1. Ottoman Empire
  2. Turkey Empire
  3. Chinese Empire
  4. Arab Region
Вопрос 13

… was the antithesis of the European nation-state System

  1. The Ottoman system
  2. Central Treaty Organisation
  3. Centralization Treaty of Organisation
  4. Central for Treaty Organisation
Вопрос 14

By the 1700s, the Ottoman Empire was

  1. in decline
  2. In war
  3. In famine
  4. In co-operation
Вопрос 15

The Ottoman response to this international threat was

  1. Defensive modernisation
  2. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  3. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Committee
  4. Financial Modernization
Вопрос 16

Middle Eastern states on very different paths. In the Turkish-speaking Anatolian heartland of the empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a military hero of the collapsed empire, revived the

  1. Young Turk movement
  2. Young Turk monument
  3. White Turk movement
  4. Young Turkey movement
Вопрос 17

MNC is an acronym for

  1. Multinational Corporations
  2. Millionaire Corporations
  3. Mineral resources Corporations
  4. Multinational Company
Вопрос 18

By the early 1950s, most Arab states were nominally

  1. Independent
  2. Dependent
  3. Neutral
  4. Controversial
Вопрос 19

CENTO Is an acronym for

  1. Central Treaty Organisation
  2. Centralization Treaty of Organisation
  3. Central for Treaty Organisation
  4. Central Treaty Organisation International
Вопрос 20

A major source of wealth in the MENA region is

  1. Oil & Gas
  2. Tourism
  3. Gold
  4. Diamond
Вопрос 21

… argues, shared Arab identity infuses the content of the foreign policy roles which states assume and generates norms that constrain state sovereignty

  1. Michael Barnett (1998)
  2. Stephen Walt
  3. Vatikiotis (1987: 42–4)
  4. Ismailis
Вопрос 22

… insists that the region demonstrates the universality of realist rules.

  1. Stephen Walt
  2. Michael Barnett (1998)
  3. Vatikiotis (1987: 42–4)
  4. Ismailis and Alawis
Вопрос 23

The Origin of Alliances (1987) is credited to

  1. Stephen Walt
  2. Michael Barnett (1998)
  3. Vatikiotis (1987: 42–4)
  4. Alawis
Вопрос 24

… argues that Islam withholds legitimacy from nationally separate states in the name of a Pan-Islamic umma and that its call for the rule of God deters the sense of national citizenship that could solidify identifications with a territorial state

  1. Vatikiotis (1987: 42–4)
  2. Stephen Walt
  3. Michael Barnett (1998)
  4. Adam smit
Вопрос 25

Finally, the … oil boom had an ambivalent but mostly deleterious effect on Arabism.

  1. 1970s
  2. 1990s
  3. 1980s
  4. 1960s
Вопрос 26

OIC is an acronym for

  1. Organisation of the Islamic Conference
  2. International Islamic Conference
  3. Organisation of the International Conference
  4. Organisation of the Islamic Committee
Вопрос 27

Shi’a Muslims majority country is

  1. Iran
  2. KSA
  3. EU
  4. Baltic states
Вопрос 28

… is the premier multi-ethnic society

  1. Iran
  2. KSA
  3. Abu Dhabi
  4. Dubai
Вопрос 29

Iran Persian core flanked by …

  1. Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Turkomans, Arabs and Baluchis.
  2. Azerbaijanis only
  3. Kurds, Turkomans, Arabs and Baluchis only
  4. Kurds and Turkomans only
Вопрос 30

Sunni Muslims are the majority community in the

  1. Arab world
  2. EU states
  3. United Nations
  4. ASEAN nations
Вопрос 31

The … shapes the rationality and effectiveness of states’ foreign policies

  1. Level of state formation
  2. Traditional states
  3. Consolidated states
  4. ASEAN nations
Вопрос 32

Traditional states examples were represented by …

  1. Landed oligarchies tribal monarchies
  2. Azerbaijanis only
  3. Kurds, Turkomans, Arabs and Baluchis only
  4. Pre-consolidated traditional states
Вопрос 33

… are the high levels of mobilisation incorporated into strong institutions

  1. Consolidated states
  2. Level of state formation
  3. Traditional states
  4. ASEAN nations
Вопрос 34

Stage 1 of state building in Arab region is the

  1. Pre-consolidated traditional states
  2. Pre-consolidation praetorianism and divergent paths: revolutionary republics, traditional survival
  3. Semi-consolidation and convergence
  4. State vulnerability and global penetration
Вопрос 35

Stage 1 of state building was from what year to what year?

  1. 1920s–1948
  2. 1970–1980s
  3. 1949–1970
  4. 1980–2000+
Вопрос 36

Stage 2 represent the era of …

  1. Pre-consolidation praetorianism and divergent paths: revolutionary republics, traditional survival
  2. Pre-consolidated traditional states
  3. Semi-consolidation and convergence
  4. State vulnerability and global penetration
Вопрос 37

Stage 2 of state building was from what year to what year?

  1. 1949–1970
  2. 1920s–1948
  3. 1970–1980s
  4. 1980–2000+
Вопрос 38

Stage 3 is the …

  1. Semi-consolidation and convergence
  2. Pre-consolidation praetorianism and divergent paths: revolutionary republics, traditional survival
  3. State vulnerability and global penetration
  4. pre-consolidated traditional states
Вопрос 39

Stage 3 of state building was from what year to what year?

  1. 1970–1980s
  2. 1949–1970
  3. 1920s–1948
  4. 1980–2000+
Вопрос 40

Stage 4 was the … era

  1. State vulnerability and global penetration
  2. Semi-consolidation and convergence
  3. Pre-consolidation praetorianism and divergent paths: revolutionary republics, traditional survival
  4. pre-consolidated traditional states
Вопрос 41

GCC is an acronym for

  1. Gulf Co-operation council
  2. Gulf Committee council
  3. Growth Co-operation council
  4. Gulf Co-operation comittee
Вопрос 42

Which of this is not a gulf state

  1. EU
  2. UAE
  3. KSA
  4. Oman
Вопрос 43

Why are some states referred to ass Gulf states because they?

  1. lie on the border of the Persian Gulf
  2. rich in oil
  3. are Arab
  4. are Muslims
Вопрос 44

GCC is an

  1. Economic integration
  2. Political committee
  3. International forum
  4. Conference
Вопрос 45

In… presidents were officers or ex-officers in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, and Sudan

  1. 1999
  2. 1990
  3. 1923
  4. 1989
Вопрос 46

In the 1980s when arms purchases were at their height, Iraq, experienced wars and devoted … of its GNPs to the military

  1. 23 per cent
  2. 17 per cent
  3. 18 per cent
  4. 10 per cent
Вопрос 47

In the 1980s when arms purchases were at their height, Jordan experienced wars and devoted … of its GNPs to the military

  1. 17 per cent
  2. 23 per cent
  3. 18 per cent
  4. 10 per cent
Вопрос 48

NATO is an acronym for

  1. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  2. National Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  3. North Art Treaty Organisation
  4. North Atlantic Tri-Organisation
Вопрос 49

Republican Peoples Party -RPP is related to

  1. Ataturk
  2. UAE
  3. Dubai
  4. Jordan
Вопрос 50

IMF is an acronym for

  1. International Monetary Fund
  2. Intentional Monetary Fund
  3. International Monetary Foundation
  4. International Market Fund
Вопрос 51

… was founded by the al-Saud clan’s dual mobilisation of tribal military power and the Wahhabi Islamic movement.

  1. Saudi Arabia
  2. Syria
  3. Western powers
  4. Imperialism
Вопрос 52

… by contrast, was born frustrated and revisionist.

  1. Syria
  2. Saudi Arabia
  3. Western powers
  4. Egypt
Вопрос 53

… subjugated the Arab East and dismembered historic Syria into four mini-states, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine

  1. Western powers
  2. Syria
  3. Saudi Arabia
  4. Oman
Вопрос 54

… also sponsored the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine.

  1. Imperialism
  2. South Asia
  3. Syria
  4. Saudi Arabia
Вопрос 55

… propelled the Saudi and Syrian regimes on a path of convergence in both structure and policy.

  1. Wars
  2. Oil
  3. Money
  4. Inflation
Вопрос 56

The 1967 war, a disastrous … for Syria

  1. Defeat
  2. Deal
  3. Win
  4. Decentralization
Вопрос 57

… radically increased the Saudi regime’s autonomy of society

  1. Oil revenues
  2. Politics
  3. Oil Boom
  4. Policy
Вопрос 58

In Syria, the state was also consolidated in the … under Hafiz al-Asad.

  1. 1970s
  2. 1973s
  3. 1870s
  4. 1990s
Вопрос 59

In Saudi Arabia, … decisions are taken consensually by the King and senior princes of the royal family.

  1. Foreign policy
  2. Oil
  3. Finance
  4. Deflation
Вопрос 60

Democratic peace theory suggests that Middle East … are, in part, a function of the region’s democratic deficits which prevent publics from holding leaders accountable or constraining their foreign adventures.

  1. Wars
  2. Wealth
  3. Politics
  4. Inflation
Вопрос 61

… has profoundly shaped the Middle East regional system.

  1. Wars
  2. Wealth
  3. Politics
  4. Inflation
Вопрос 62

Conflicts over Israel and oil have tended to feed on each other, as in the … oil embargo triggered by the Arab–Israeli war of that year.

  1. 1973
  2. 1971
  3. 1979
  4. 1978
Вопрос 63

In 1890, Jews made up … of the population of Palestine

  1. 3 per cent
  2. 13 per cent
  3. 30 per cent
  4. 33 per cent
Вопрос 64

… was also the most populous Arab state, having 30 per cent of the Arab population

  1. Egypt
  2. Morocco
  3. UAE
  4. Dubai
Вопрос 65

Egypt’s ideological hegemony positioned Nasser to lay down standards of …

  1. Pan-Arab conduct
  2. Anti-Arab conduct
  3. Pan-Oil conduct
  4. US-Arab conduct
Вопрос 66

Two Arab–Israeli wars and the reshaping of the Middle East system. One of such wars is

  1. The June 1967 war
  2. The June 1976 war
  3. The January 1967 war
  4. The June 1967 Conference
Вопрос 67

… signalled the decline of Egyptian hegemony and the Egypt-centric ‘Arab regime’.

  1. 1967 war
  2. 1967 Oil
  3. 1967 Wealth
  4. 1967 Technology
Вопрос 68

The 1973 war precipitated a second watershed, the beginning of the … peace process

  1. Arab–Israeli
  2. KSA-Iran
  3. Dubai- Abu-Abu Dhabi
  4. Oman-Jordan
Вопрос 69

… launched the 1967 war and its motives constitute its immediate cause

  1. Israel
  2. KSA
  3. Dubai
  4. UAE
Вопрос 70

The 1967 war was the product of a … of forces on several different levels.

  1. Convergence
  2. Emergence
  3. Dependence
  4. KSA
Вопрос 71

The … represented a watershed event in the Middle East that sharply underlined how far it is a ‘penetrated system.

  1. Second Gulf War
  2. First Gulf War
  3. Third Gulf War
  4. No Gulf War
Вопрос 72

… and Iraqi political economy largely explain the Iraqi choices that unleashed the war.

  1. Regional level conflicts
  2. Oil Money
  3. Market Conditions
  4. Inflations
Вопрос 73

Saddam’s Hussein’s decision to invade Kuwait provoked the

  1. Second Gulf War
  2. First Gulf War
  3. Gulf War
  4. No Gulf War
Вопрос 74

The 1958 revolution marked the mobilisation of the … into politics

  1. Masses
  2. Money
  3. Oil
  4. US
Вопрос 75

The 1970s nationalisation of the … and the oil boom put soaring oil revenues in the hands of the government

  1. Oil industry
  2. Coal Market
  3. Desert Industry
  4. Fossil business
Вопрос 76

Saddam Hussein’s use of … to justify his invasion of another Arab state discredited the sentiment among Gulf Arabs.

  1. Arabism
  2. Arabic
  3. GCC
  4. Oil
Вопрос 77

Ismailis and Alawis are historically important in Syria and Lebanon, while the … dominate Yemen.

  1. Zaydis
  2. Alawis
  3. Ismailis
  4. Algerians
Вопрос 78

Political language of MENA region is

  1. Arabic
  2. Mixed
  3. Hindu
  4. English
Вопрос 79

State Formation Stage 4 was in which period

  1. 1980–2000+
  2. 1970–1980s
  3. 1949–1970
  4. 1920s–1948
Вопрос 80

The interwar experience of … set the main themes and gave them real meaning in the construction of the Turkish polity

  1. Atatürk’s Turkey
  2. Oman’s Turkey
  3. Dubai’s Turkey
  4. DXB’s Turkey