Realism

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THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

REALISM

1. Which among the following school of thought is also known as power politics model of International Politics:

a) Realism

b) Liberalism

c) Marxism

d) None of these

Ans. a) Realism

2. Who among the following is known as the father of classical realism:

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Hobbes

Ans. b) Hans J. Morgenthau

3. Who said, " Politics as the struggle for power":

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. b) Hans J. Morgenthau

4. What is not a key theme of realism:

a) National Interest

b) International Anarchy

c) Balance of Power

d) Cooperative Nature of States

Ans. d) Cooperative Nature of States

5. The classic book " The Art  of War "is written by:

a) Sun Tzu

b) Thucydides

c) Hobbes

d) Machiavelli

Ans. a) Sun Tzu

6. Who among the following encouraging political leaders to rule through the use of cunning, cruelty, and manipulation:

a) Sun Tzu

b) Thucydides

c) Hobbes

d) Machiavelli

Ans. d) Machiavelli

7. Who among the following thinker portrayed human life as, " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and 

short ":

a) Sun Tzu

b) Thucydides

c) Hobbes

d) Machiavelli

Ans. c) Hobbes

8. The book " Twenty- Years Crisis " is written by:

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. a) E. H. Carr

9. Who among the following thinker has given " 6 principles of political realism ":

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. b) Hans J. Morgenthau

10. Which among the following is not a principle of classical realism given by Hans J. Morgenthau:

a) Inapplicability of Moral principles to guide the State's behaviour

b) National Interest defined in terms of power

c) The autonomy of the International Sphere

d) Dynamic nature of National interest

Ans. c) The autonomy of the International Sphere ( Autonomy of the political sphere is the correct 

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11. The " Politics Among Nations(1948) " is written by:

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. b) Hans J. Morgenthau

12. Which one among the following books is not written by Hans J. Morgenthau:

a) In Defence of the National Interest(1951)
b) The Purpose of American Politics(1960)
c) Scientific Man Versus Power Politics(1946)
d) None of these

Ans. d) None of these




13. Who among the following thinker is known as the proponent of Neo-realism:

a) Morgenthau
b) E.H. Carr
c) Kenneth Waltz
d) All of these

Ans. c) Kenneth Waltz

14. The book " The Theory of International Politics " is written by:

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. c) Kenneth Waltz




15. Neo-realism is otherly known as:

a) Functional realism
b) Structural realism
c) Neo-classical realism
d) None of these

Ans. b) Structural realism

16. The book " The Man, the state and war " (1959) is written by:

a) E. H. Carr

b) Hans J. Morgenthau

c) Kenneth Waltz

d) Nicholas Spykman

Ans. c) Kenneth Waltz




17. According to which among the following school of thought, " bipolarity is stable and provides a better guarantee of peace and security than multipolarity does ":

a) Classical realism
b) Neo-realism
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of these

Ans. b) Neo-realism

18.  In which type of realism, "States views as the security maximizer":

a) Offensive Realism

b) Defensive Realism

c) Both (a) and (b)

d) None of these

Ans. b) Defensive Realism

19. Who among the following is not a core realist thinker:

a) Nicholas Spykman

b) Reinhold Niebuhr

c) Mearsheimer

d) Dante Alighieri

Ans. d) Dante Alighieri

20. Who among the following is a Neo-classical realist thinker:

a) Nicholas Spykman

b) Reinhold Niebuhr

c) Mearsheimer

d) Fareed Zakaria

Ans. d) Fareed Zakaria

21. The book " The Geography of Power " is written by:

a) Nicholas Spykman

b) Reinhold Niebuhr

c) Mearsheimer

d) Fareed Zakaria

Ans. a) Nicholas Spykman

22. Who among the following thinkers criticized Moganthau's  theory of classical realism:

a) Hoffmann

b) Tucker

c) Quincy Wright

d) All of these

Ans. d) All of these

23. The book " The Coming Anarchy " (2000) is written by:

a) Hoffmann

b) Tucker

c) Quincy Wright

d) Kaplan

Ans. d) Kaplan