International Relations of the Global South Solved Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the international relations of countries in the Global South, focusing on how historical legacies, developmental challenges, and shifting power dynamics shape their engagement with global politics. Students will examine the roles of emerging economies, regional organizations, and transnational actors in addressing issues such as poverty, security, democratization, and climate change. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and case studies, the course critically analyzes how nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East navigate global governance structures and assert their agency in a rapidly changing world order.
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Challenge of Third World Development The 7th Edition by Howard Handelman
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Chapter 1: Understanding Underdevelopment
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Q1) Fernando Henrique Cardoso's version of dependency theory took into account conditions within developing countries that influenced the nature of their dependency.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Modernization theorists stressed the importance of cultural values in explaining underdevelopment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) East Asia's per capita income is the highest among the Third World's regions. A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) An income ratio compares the richest segment of society to the poorest segment. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Explosion of Third World Democracy
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Q1) Consolidated democracies
A) never break down.
B) precede democratic transitions.
C) are very rare.
D) require that previous dictators be put on trial.
E) are, by definition, the only game in town.
Answer: E
Q2) Which of the following are characteristic of liberal democracies?
A) Liberal economic policies
B) A stress on economic equality
C) Higher taxes
D) A free press
E) Universal education
Answer: D
Q3) Liberal democracy does not include electoral democracy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Religion and Politics
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Q1) What did political scientists think would be the effect on religion of modernization in developing countries?
A) It would reduce the influence of religion on the political system
B) It would lead to a religious backlash against the West
C) It would lead to a more harmonious relationship between Church and state
D) It would African and Asian populations to gravitate toward Western religions
E) It would lead to greater tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India
Answer: A
Q2) The fastest growing religion in Latin America is
A) Islam.
B) Mormonism.
C) Pentecostalism and other forms of Protestant, Evangelical Christianity.
D) Catholicism.
E) Unitarianism.
Answer: C
Q3) The majority of Arab governments are controlled by their Shi'a populations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict
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Q1) In recent years in Latin American countries such as Bolivia,Ecuador,and Mexico,indigenous people (Latin American Indians)have mobilized and demanded their rights.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following conditions must exist if ethnic tensions are to be resolved through federalism?
A) There must be a history of federalism in the area
B) Contending ethnic groups agree beforehand where the nation's capital will be located
C) Contending ethnic groups must have roughly equal populations
D) Contending ethnic groups must be concentrated in different parts of the county
E) There must be universal suffrage for all groups
Q3) What are the major types of ethnic identifications that have often caused conflict in developing countries? Include in your Answer: discussion of a specific case of violent conflict for each type of ethnic identification (i.e.,for each type of ethnic identification,what is a good example of where such identifications have led to violent conflict).
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Chapter 5: Women and Development
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Q1) What were the three types of women's political groups that arose in opposition to Latin America's authoritarian governments? What were the goals of each type and what was the social class composition of each?
Q2) Using measures of women's empowerment (GEM)as well as measures of gender equality in education and life expectancy (GDI),democratic (Free)Third World governments performed better on these measures than authoritarian governments did.
A)True B)False
Q3) Women's literacy rates are
A) much lower than men's rates in all regions of the Third World.
B) about the same as men's rates in all regions of the Third World.
C) are closest to the men's rate in Latin America and the Caribbean.
D) are closest to the men's rate in Sub-Saharan Africa.
E) have declined in the past decade due to the world economic crisis.
Q4) GEM stands for "Gender Empowerment Measure."
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: The Politics of the Rural and Urban Poor
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Q1) Which of the following Third World areas is the most urbanized?
A) North Africa
B) Latin America and the Caribbean
C) East Asia
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
E) South Central Asia
Q2) The greatest challenge that Third World governments will likely face among the urban poor in the coming decades is
A) rising crime and drug usage.
B) radical political movements.
C) religious fundamentalism.
D) alliances of the urban and rural poor.
E) tensions between the urban lower and middle classes.
Q3) Most governments in the less developed countries impose price controls on food in order to guarantee farmers a minimum price for their crops and thereby guarantee production.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the conflicting images of the politics of the urban poor as described by scholars and journalists.
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Chapter 7: Revolutionary Change
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Q1) What are the main arguments for and against revolutionary regimes in the developing world? What are the major strengths and weaknesses of revolutionary governments as compared to democratic developing nations?
Q2) James Scott talks of the collapse of the "moral economy" that often breaks down prior to a revolution.What is a moral economy?
A) The landlords' contributions to organized religion and the moral authority that those contributions bring
B) The economic sanctions imposed on poor city dwellers who violate contemporary moral codes
C) The crackdown by Islamic "moral police" and the fear it produces
D) The increasing immorality of business deals by banking groups
E) The web of mutual obligations and duties that tied peasants to landlords in pre-capitalist rural society
Q3) To seize power,successful revolutionary movements always have needed to gain the active support of over half the population.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Soldiers and Politics
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Q1) Institutional military regimes frequently have a common set of objectives when the armed forces seize power.Which one of the following is NOT amongst them?
A) To clean up the corruption of the government that they have ousted
B) To advance the corporate interests of the military itself
C) To develop an independent foreign policy
D) To restore order and stability
E) To revive and stimulate the economy
Q2) During the last 20-25 years the number of successful military takeovers
A) has fallen most sharply in Africa.
B) has risen most dramatically in Asia.
C) remained fairly constant.
D) has increased somewhat in the developing world.
E) has declined sharply in the developing world.
Q3) One important means of protecting civilian government from military interference or takeovers is having a national constitution and legal system that gives the civilian president or prime minister final control over the armed forces.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the different goals of left-wing versus right-wing military regimes?
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Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Third World Development
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Q1) Because they had smaller populations and fewer agricultural products to export than did Argentina,Brazil,or Mexico,East Asian countries such as Taiwan and Singapore opted for an EOI economic strategy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which group of consumers was Latin American ISI production designed to serve?
A) The U.S. market
B) The European Union (EU) and the United States
C) Rural Latin America
D) Consumers in the Latin American nations' own country
E) Latin American exporters
Q3) What were the major accomplishments of the ISI model in Latin America? What have been the major accomplishments of the EOI model in East Asia? What are some dangers of EOI?
Q4) No government today has a complete policy of laissez faire.
A)True B)False
Q5) Since the 1970s,China has moved away from a command economy.
A)True
B)False
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