Test your knowledge of ‘’Globalization of World Politics’’
1. What is Global Governance?
a. two or more states that interact and impact each other: So EU is a system and the
global is.
b. A system that entails shared norms and values and common institutions on top
c. The exercise of authority across national borders as well as consented norms and
rules beyond the nation state, both of them justified with reference to common
goods or transnational problems
2. What does Zurn meant by ‘’delegation process’’?
a. Existed institution fails, alternative institution are created
b. the decline of an organisation, where an organisation becomes totally irrelevant
such as League of Nations
c. States, which are the main principles within the institution (agent), blaming the
agent and start saying that these IOs are in-legitimate.
3. What does Counter-institutionalisation mean?
a. A response to delegitimization processes. Whereby an institution is challenged by
Incumbents (member states) or rising powers that exit from a certain agreement
e.g. US (Trump’s) withdrawal from WHO.
b. Adaption of institutions to new power distribution where they are more powerful e.g.
Chinese AIIB, one of the challengers of the Western investment bank.
c. Institutional changes that target the legitimacy deficit
4. What does Zurn mean by Technocratic authority?
a. Delegation of a group of states within an institution e.g. EU-states
b. An authority which is delegated on basis of expertise
c. Generalized belief in the possibility of an international authority
5. What does Zurn mean by Institutional gap within the Global Governance
a. The current structure/state of Global Governance, where many international
organisations have problems with respect to their inclusiveness and authority
decisions making.
b. Role of civil society in identifying gaps and proposing solutions
c. Failure of people who have the decision-making power (representatives of each state)
and are delegations of national governments to preserve national interests
6. What is a civil society?
a. The totally of all individual and groups who are not acting as representatives of the
governmental institutions
b. A system that entails shared norms and values and common institutions on top
c. A group of people who preserve the interests of a private agency
7. What is a Transnational non-governmental organisation (TNGO)?
a. Voluntary organisations aspiring to work for the common good. They function in
wider networks (coalitions) internationally
b. Delegation of a group of states within an institution e.g. EU-states
c. An authority which is delegated on basis of expertise
, 8. What is false?
a. An NGO is an intergovernmental organisation
b. UN, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch are NGOs
c. IOs have representatives from at least one state that supports a permanent
secretariat to perform on-going tasks related to a common purpose
9. TNGOs & NGOS
a. Have legal personalities
b. Are voluntary governmental organisations
c. Non-profit organisations
10. What is not a characteristic of an NGO
a. They are representatives of civil societies
b. They do not posses an international legal personality
c. Usually driven by interests
11. A government is
a. A body that soles responsibility and authority to make binding decisions in state
b. The way norms, rules and actions are structured
c. An organisation that has three or more states supporting a permanent secretariat
12. An IO is established through
a. National elections
b. A founding treaty or agreement which establishes the mandate, structure, function,
and resources. Subsequent signage and ratification by enough number of states.
c. Highest authority within a country
13. According to a realist
a. IO’s as a mean of providing collective goods for the benefit of all states.
b. IO’s as one of the diplomatic tools. IO’s are created to determine the rules that
others must then follow
c. states use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in the
international arena.
14. According to an idealist
a. IO’s as bridging actor between states to prevent any war/conflict
b. IO’s as a mean of providing collective goods for the benefit of all states.
c. states use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in the
international arena.
15. According to a Marxist
a. States use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in
the international arena.
b. IO’s as one of the diplomatic tools, since trust is a major issue within the international
arena.
c. The solution to prevent any war
16. What is globalization?
a. Widening, deepening and acceleration of worldwide interconnectedness that
contributes to growth in transnational and global forms of governance, rule-
making, and regulation
b. An area or resource that does not fall under sovereign jurisdiction
1. What is Global Governance?
a. two or more states that interact and impact each other: So EU is a system and the
global is.
b. A system that entails shared norms and values and common institutions on top
c. The exercise of authority across national borders as well as consented norms and
rules beyond the nation state, both of them justified with reference to common
goods or transnational problems
2. What does Zurn meant by ‘’delegation process’’?
a. Existed institution fails, alternative institution are created
b. the decline of an organisation, where an organisation becomes totally irrelevant
such as League of Nations
c. States, which are the main principles within the institution (agent), blaming the
agent and start saying that these IOs are in-legitimate.
3. What does Counter-institutionalisation mean?
a. A response to delegitimization processes. Whereby an institution is challenged by
Incumbents (member states) or rising powers that exit from a certain agreement
e.g. US (Trump’s) withdrawal from WHO.
b. Adaption of institutions to new power distribution where they are more powerful e.g.
Chinese AIIB, one of the challengers of the Western investment bank.
c. Institutional changes that target the legitimacy deficit
4. What does Zurn mean by Technocratic authority?
a. Delegation of a group of states within an institution e.g. EU-states
b. An authority which is delegated on basis of expertise
c. Generalized belief in the possibility of an international authority
5. What does Zurn mean by Institutional gap within the Global Governance
a. The current structure/state of Global Governance, where many international
organisations have problems with respect to their inclusiveness and authority
decisions making.
b. Role of civil society in identifying gaps and proposing solutions
c. Failure of people who have the decision-making power (representatives of each state)
and are delegations of national governments to preserve national interests
6. What is a civil society?
a. The totally of all individual and groups who are not acting as representatives of the
governmental institutions
b. A system that entails shared norms and values and common institutions on top
c. A group of people who preserve the interests of a private agency
7. What is a Transnational non-governmental organisation (TNGO)?
a. Voluntary organisations aspiring to work for the common good. They function in
wider networks (coalitions) internationally
b. Delegation of a group of states within an institution e.g. EU-states
c. An authority which is delegated on basis of expertise
, 8. What is false?
a. An NGO is an intergovernmental organisation
b. UN, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch are NGOs
c. IOs have representatives from at least one state that supports a permanent
secretariat to perform on-going tasks related to a common purpose
9. TNGOs & NGOS
a. Have legal personalities
b. Are voluntary governmental organisations
c. Non-profit organisations
10. What is not a characteristic of an NGO
a. They are representatives of civil societies
b. They do not posses an international legal personality
c. Usually driven by interests
11. A government is
a. A body that soles responsibility and authority to make binding decisions in state
b. The way norms, rules and actions are structured
c. An organisation that has three or more states supporting a permanent secretariat
12. An IO is established through
a. National elections
b. A founding treaty or agreement which establishes the mandate, structure, function,
and resources. Subsequent signage and ratification by enough number of states.
c. Highest authority within a country
13. According to a realist
a. IO’s as a mean of providing collective goods for the benefit of all states.
b. IO’s as one of the diplomatic tools. IO’s are created to determine the rules that
others must then follow
c. states use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in the
international arena.
14. According to an idealist
a. IO’s as bridging actor between states to prevent any war/conflict
b. IO’s as a mean of providing collective goods for the benefit of all states.
c. states use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in the
international arena.
15. According to a Marxist
a. States use IO’s to maintain their privileged position in the international order in
the international arena.
b. IO’s as one of the diplomatic tools, since trust is a major issue within the international
arena.
c. The solution to prevent any war
16. What is globalization?
a. Widening, deepening and acceleration of worldwide interconnectedness that
contributes to growth in transnational and global forms of governance, rule-
making, and regulation
b. An area or resource that does not fall under sovereign jurisdiction
