Practice Quiz: Chapter 12

. Which of the following is NOT one of the three branches of government?

Military

Legislature

Judiciary

Executive

. What is the realist argument in favour of world government centred around?

Enabling the dominance of a hegemonic state

Creating effective international institutions

Solving the assurance problem

Incentivizing more military alliances

. What is an example of a successful empirical case in favour of world government?

League of Nations

Reconstruction of Germany and Japan after World War II

International Criminal Court

European Union

. Which of the following is NOT a global value cited by supporters of world government?

Human rights

Democratization

Improvements in health

Higher living standards

. Which of the following best describes the democratic peace thesis?

Democracies are more peaceful than non-democracies.

Democracies are less peaceful than non-democracies.

Democracies do not go to war against other democracies.

Democracies tend to go to war against other democracies.

. Utopia is a vision of the future that is better, happier, and more progressive than the present.

TRUE

FALSE

. A federal world government is the most tightly and highly governed option for global governance.

TRUE

FALSE

. In practice, the United States has been the biggest supporter of world government.

TRUE

FALSE

. Traditionally, Catholic Christians have been opposed to world government.

TRUE

FALSE

. The United Nations era of governance features many biding international institutions, but no overall binding world government.

TRUE

FALSE

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