Anthony Giddens • Sociology 6th edition

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Chapter 23 — Nations, War and Terrorism

1. What do ‘separatist’ movements around the world seek to achieve?
   a) recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state
   b) the creation of an independent nation state
   c) the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region
   d) acceptance of an ethnic group’s right to use a separate, minority language
2. Compared with the state formation process in industrialized countries, which one of the following created major problems for developing societies?
   a) the lack of a strong work ethic
   b) the legacy of economic mismanagement by local leaders
   c) the lack of a democratic culture
   d) the legacy of colonialism
3. What name did Norbert Elias give to the dynamic of competition between social units that eventually gave rise to a nation state?
   a) the absolutist mechanism
   b) the decivilizing process
   c) the monopoly mechanism
   d) the courtization process
4. What is the main consequence of well-defined ‘ethnies’ existing within established nation states?
   a) nations without states
   b) multiculturalism
   c) a cultural ‘melting pot’
   d) separate institutions
5. What does Martin Shaw put at the centre of his definition of war?
   a) rules of conduct in conflict
   b) a formal declaration of intent by governments
   c) organized killing
   d) mobilization of civilians
6. In many contemporary conflicts, attempts are made to protect soldiers, often at the expense of civilian lives, in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities. How are such conflicts described?
   a) degenerate wars
   b) genocides
   c) illegal wars
   d) risk-transfer wars
7. Mary Kaldor (2007) argues that globalization processes lie at the heart of many ‘new wars’. Which of the following is not an example of the increasing globalization of conflict?
   a) the presence of diaspora volunteer fighters
   b) the recourse of combatants to small-scale guerrilla tactics
   c) the involvement of international NGOs
   d) the role of multinational United Nations peacekeeping troops
8. The terrorist group, Al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attacks on American targets on 11th September 2001. In what year did Al Qaeda bomb a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing more than 200 people?
   a) 1999
   b) 2004
   c) 2004
   d) 2002
9. 'New style' terrorism differs from 'old style' terrorism in three main ways. Which of the following is not one of the three?
   a) it is global in the scope of its aims
   b) it has a nationalist ideology
   c) it adopts a loose international type of organization
   d) it is more ruthless in the recourse to violent means
10. What is cosmopolitan democracy?
    a) a form of world government with global citizenship
    b) rule by the world’s educated elites
    c) democratic government at the level of the city
    d) democratic government that is representative of a multicultural society
11. Which of these distinguishes modern nation-states from traditional civilizations?
    a) a national identity with an associated set of symbols and beliefs
    b) governmental authority over a clearly demarcated territory
    c) the granting of citizenship rights to the relevant population
    d) all of the above
12. Which of the following is a 'nation without a state'?
    a) Tibet
    b) Israel
    c) Belgium
    d) all of the above
13. The term terrorism has its origins in
    a) the Roman Empire
    b) Revolutionary France
    c) Nazi Germany
    d) the English Civil War

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