SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS FOR INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL SECURITY STUDIES
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1. Security studies, as a field of study, aims to be:
    A. interdisciplinary
    B. multidisciplinary
    C. transdisciplinary
    D. superdisciplinary*

2. Security studies, as a field of study, is what, compared to the field of strategic studies?
    A. forward-looking
    B. backward-looking*
    C. under-resourced
    D. over-stretched

3. Which method of strategic assessment is most associated with the U.S. Dept. of Defense?
    A. net assessment*
    B. strategic planning
    C. operational contingency
    D. red team thinking

4. What is the main lesson from the intelligence failure that led to Pearl Harbor?
    A. the sharing of counterintelligence can be risky
    B. civilian and military intelligence services need to be centralized
    C. never rely on technology at the expense of human intelligence *
    D. intelligence analysis is only as good as the information it's based on

5. Which intelligence failure is mostly known for not having HUMINT in place?
    A. Operation Barbarossa
    B. Operation Mongoose
    C. Pearl Harbor*
    D. Six Day War

6. Which way of classifying intelligence failure is almost always the way Oversight organizations pinpoint problems?
    A. underestimation
    B. over-confidence
    C. subordination of intelligence to policy
    D. not connecting the dots*

7. Which stage of the securitization process involves some powerful interest group backing an idea?
    A. prospecting
    B. claims-making*
    C. turf-battling
    D. designating

8. A "wide" conception of a security threat would involve what?
    A. hurricanes*
    B. genocides
    C. arms buildups
    D. wars

9. Which realist thinker is considered the father of international relations?
    A. Kissinger
    B. Lippmann
    C. Morgenthau
    D. Taub

10. Which doctrine expressing vital interest has been most used by the United States for intervening in the affairs of foreign nations?
    A. The Monroe Doctrine
    B. The Truman Doctrine*
    C. The Kennedy Doctrine
    D. The Carter Doctrine

11. Who is most known for expounding the "entitlements approach" whereby individuals ought to have the right to be protected from famine by their governments?
    A. Johan Galtung
    B. Jeffrey Sachs
    C. Amartya Sen*
    D. Muhammad Yunus

12. Who is known for having started an international peace institute in Oslo?
    A. Johan Galtung*
    B. Jeffrey Sachs
    C. Amartya Sen
    D. Muhammad Yunus

13. Which theory of international relations is the one most associated associated with work by Immanuel Wallerstein?
    A. neorealism
    B. neoliberalism
    C. world system theory*
    D. critical theory

14. The code name for the Russian version of a nuclear launch failsafe system is:
    A. kommisar
    B. perimetr*
    C. Vladiostok
    D. Lenin's grave

15. The U.S. Army's Security Assistance Command's motto is:
    A. Strength in Cooperation*
    B. Unity through Strength
    C. Peace in Our Time
    D. Security Assurances R Us

16. Which of the following best describes the ultimate goal of ethnonationalist terrorism?
    A. genocide
    B. pluralism
    C. state sponsorship
    D. state control*

17. Which "old" institution is the primary one that "new institutionalists" say a less developed country (LDC) should not neglect?
    A. property rights*
    B. insurance
    C. transportation
    D. religious freedom 

18. Which model of sustainable development first embraced a greater return on investment in labor productivity, via education mainly, as a way to help a developing country out of poverty?
    A. Harrod-Domar growth model
    B. Solow growth model*
    C. structural adjustment loans
    D. new institutionalism

19. "Foreign aid in the national interest" is the motto of which development agency?
    A. USAID*
    B. World Bank
    C. International Monetary Fund
    D. United Nations Development Programme 

20. What is the main way that countries manage to evade economic sanctions?
    A. they turn to Communist countries for aid and trade
    B. they carry out bribery and black market operations*
    C. they reduce consumption via austerity measures
    D. they make deals with multinational corporations

21. Which acronym is the one most commonly found in the area of environmental security?
    A. ANSER
    B. GYRO
    C. REDD*
    D. COMPSTAT

22. Which country is most at risk of going underwater due to rising sea levels?
    A. Australia
    B. Bangladesh
    C. Greenland
    D. Tuvalu*

23. Acid rain was discovered in Great Britain during what century?
    A. 1920s
    B. 1950s
    C. 1980s
    D. 2000s

24. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of biological weapons in agro-terrorism?
    A. an effect similar to a "neutron bomb" confining the damage to human users
    B. the unavailability of vaccines for most biological weapons*
    C. the mere threat of using biological weapons is often enough
    D. the capacity of the weapon to reproduce itself

25. Which U.S. agency handles the warning, recall and disposal of infected and/or inedible food products?  
    A. FDA Center for Toxicological Research
    B. FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine
    C. USDA Biotechnology Division
    D. USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service*

26. The EPA's role in homeland security primarily involves decontamination management, but the EPA is also primarily involved in the protection of what key infrastructure?
    A. electricity
    B. food
    C. water*
    D. volcanos

27. Which agricultural threat is the one which most involves U.S. trade issues with foreign food suppliers?
    A. the Mediterranean fruit fly
    B. the Asian longhorned beetle
    C. the Giant African snail
    D. bovine spongiform encephalopathy *

28. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that how many children worldwide die from microbiologically contaminated food and water each year?
    A. 500,000
    B. 1 million
    C. 2 million*
    D. half a billion

29. What is the world's largest megacity?
    A. Tokyo*
    B. Cairo
    C. Bombay
    D. New York

30. What is the world's #1 most dangerous natural disaster?
    A. earthquakes
    B. windstorms*
    C. tsunamis
    D. forest fires

31. What is the name for the field of study which looks at how to establish political relations with aliens in case the same ever visit Earth?
    A. linearism
    B. cosmology
    C. exopolitics*
    D. interplanetarianism

32. Which thesis in comparative criminology is the one which is associated with places with little or no crime?
    A. colonization
    B. urbanization
    C. synomie*
    D. criminology of liberation

33. Which country has more anti-terrorism laws, relative to its size, than any other country?
    A. Egypt
    B. Great Britain*
    C. Somalia
    D. United States

34. Which type of legal system has the oldest corpus of written specialized legal knowledge?
    A. common law
    B. civil law*
    C. socialist
    D. Islamic

35. Which nation has the most Optional Protocol complaints filed against it under international human rights law?
    A. Australia
    B. Canada
    C. Jamaica*
    D. Norway

36. What country, other than Rwanda, has been the site of tribunals which have greatly influenced new directions in the shaping of law involving crimes against humanity?
    A. Australia
    B. Canada
    C. Sweden
    D. the former Yugoslavia*

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