International Relations (II) MCQs 2024
This page contains the solved MCQs for the CSS International Relations Paper II from 2024. This exam emphasized IR theories, key authors, historical events, and international political economy. Theoretical concepts included economic spill-over (Ernst Haas), the Concert of Europe (1815), sociological liberalism (Karl Deutsch), the ‘cobweb model’ (John Burton), realism (Morgenthau), and constructivism. Historical events tested were the Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty (1996), the Munich Agreement (1938), and the Six-Day War (1967). Key authors and their works featured prominently, such as Martin Jacques (When China Rules the World), Francis Fukuyama (The Origin of Political Order), Henry Kissinger (On China), Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations), and Machiavelli (Lion and Fox). The paper also touched upon significant figures like Robert McNamara (Vietnam War), Marshall McLuhan (Global Village), and Woodrow Wilson (Fourteen Points).
[______ proposed a ‘cobweb model’ of transnational relationships:]
A. John Burton
B. Joseph Nye
C. Immanuel Kant
D. Oran Young
[Economic spill-over from one sector to other sectors is explained by:]
A. Robert D. Gilpin
B. Ernst B. Haas
C. Robert D. Kaplan
D. None of these
[The statement that ‘Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe’ has been given by:]
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. E. H. Carr
C. Morgenthau
D. Kenneth Waltz
[Proposal for joint defence between Pakistan and India was given by:]
A. Chou En-Lai
B. Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Ayub Khan
D. None of these
[The statement that ‘There can be no other conceivable basis under capitalism for the division of spheres of influence…. than a calculation of the strength of the participants in the division, their general economic, financial, military strength, etc.’ was given by:]
A. Karl Marx
B. Friedrich Engels
C. Joseph Stalin
D. Lenin
[Who is author of the book “When China Rules the World”?]
A. Graham Allison
B. Martin Jacques
C. Thomas Friedman
D. Fareed Zakariya
[‘The social world including international relations is a human construction’ is the key idea argued by:]
A. Liberalism
B. Constructivism
C. IPE
D. Feminism
[The Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty was signed between India and Bangladesh in:]
A. 1992
B. 1989
C. 1982
D. 1996
[The book ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ was written by:]
A. Thomas L. Friedman
B. Adam Smith
C. John Maynard Keynes
D. None of these
[The Munich Agreement was signed among Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain in September 1938 permitted German annexation of territories of:]
A. Poland
B. Hungary
C. Czechoslovakia
D. Alsace-Lorraine