CONTEMPORARY WORLD MIDTERM
Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
nation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an imagined community in a sense that it allows one to
feel a connection with a community of people even if he/she will never meet all of them in a
lifetime
state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a political unit that has authority over its own boundaries;
the institution that creates warfare and sets economic policies for a country
people, territory, government, sovereignity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔four attributes of a
state
people - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it exercises authority over its citizens
territory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it governs a specific territory
government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it has a structure of government that crafts various
rules that people (society) follow
sovereignity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it has sovereignity over its own territory; here
refers to the internal and external authority
nation-state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔not all state are nations and not all nations are state
nation-state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔in example, the nation of Scotland has its own flag
and national culture but still belongs to a state called the United Kingdom
world economy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔all the economic interactions of all the people
on Earth, not just international trade and investment
, modern world-system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔structured politically as an interstate
system
interstate system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system of competing and allying states
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system of political coordination among
public authorities (states and intergovernmental organization), private agents (corporations)
and civil societal actors (NGOs, INGOs), seeking to realize common purposes or resolve
shared problems through making and implementing of transnational norms, rules, programs
and policies
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔refers to the governing procedures and
standards with political authority which is aimed at controlling certain institution and
organization
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔is not a mechanism of global government
controlling different nations across the world.
government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a group of people who have the ultimate authority
to act on behalf of a state
traditional challenges - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔challenges against the country's/state's
autonomy
region - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔part of a country
external invention - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔interference of foreign country over a region
in a country
internal intervention - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔interference of one region over its own
country
nation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔has cultural identity that people attached to
Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
nation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an imagined community in a sense that it allows one to
feel a connection with a community of people even if he/she will never meet all of them in a
lifetime
state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a political unit that has authority over its own boundaries;
the institution that creates warfare and sets economic policies for a country
people, territory, government, sovereignity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔four attributes of a
state
people - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it exercises authority over its citizens
territory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it governs a specific territory
government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it has a structure of government that crafts various
rules that people (society) follow
sovereignity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔it has sovereignity over its own territory; here
refers to the internal and external authority
nation-state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔not all state are nations and not all nations are state
nation-state - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔in example, the nation of Scotland has its own flag
and national culture but still belongs to a state called the United Kingdom
world economy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔all the economic interactions of all the people
on Earth, not just international trade and investment
, modern world-system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔structured politically as an interstate
system
interstate system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system of competing and allying states
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system of political coordination among
public authorities (states and intergovernmental organization), private agents (corporations)
and civil societal actors (NGOs, INGOs), seeking to realize common purposes or resolve
shared problems through making and implementing of transnational norms, rules, programs
and policies
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔refers to the governing procedures and
standards with political authority which is aimed at controlling certain institution and
organization
global governance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔is not a mechanism of global government
controlling different nations across the world.
government - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a group of people who have the ultimate authority
to act on behalf of a state
traditional challenges - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔challenges against the country's/state's
autonomy
region - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔part of a country
external invention - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔interference of foreign country over a region
in a country
internal intervention - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔interference of one region over its own
country
nation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔has cultural identity that people attached to
