Reference no: EM133507024
Questions:
1) What is terrorism? Name and describe its three essential components. What characterizes "new terrorism"? Describe at least five characteristics.
2) How have states attempted to counter terrorism? Describe at least three approaches. What problems are inherent to each approach at counter terrorism, according to critics?
3) What are human rights? What is the major statement of human rights? Into what categories can human rights be divided? How are human rights enacted?
4) What are humanitarian or human rights interventions? Who favors such interventions and why? Who opposes such interventions and why?
5) Why care about global poverty? Name and describe at least two reasons. How is global wealth and poverty measured? Name and describe at least two measures. What is the cause of global poverty? Name and describe at least two viewpoints.
6) Why is foreign aid controversial? Name and describe at least three reasons.
7) Why does climate change concern international relations? Name and describe three reasons. How do the five major IR paradigms approach climate change?
8) What are the purposes or principles of the United Nations (UN)? How is it organized? What are its main bodies and the roles of those bodies?
9) What are transnational actors? Name and describe two categories of transnational actors?
10) What is global governance? Name and describe at least five features of global governance. What alternative configurations of world politics exist?
11) What four major global economic institutions did the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference produce? Which of the four still exist today? What has replaced those that do not?
12) How did the European Union (EU) emerge? Name and describe at least three milestones in its development. Why is the future of the EU in doubt? Name and describe at least two reasons.
13) What are the purposes and principles of the European Union (EU)? How is it organized? What are its main bodies and the roles of those bodies?
14) Name and describe at least six trends in international politics that have transformed and are continuing to transform global politics. What do we not yet know about these transformations?
15) How is China emerging as a major rival to the United States (US) in global politics? Name and describe how China is trying to increase its hard power, its soft power and its smart power.