Deneme Sınavı Soruları

In terms of social culture, whose perspective draws a world where states view each other as rivals, they nevertheless recognize each other’s sovereignty, and therefore submit to a minimum standard of common norms?

I. Modernism allows the individual as the only unit within all social fields.

II. Modernism does not permit the ontology of identities public representation.

III. Modernism is shaped by the adaptation of scientific knowledge to the process of production.

Which of the above is correct regarding the modernism?

I. The West is seen as being essentially rational, developed and human.

II. Orientalists see themselves as the centre of the world and the other as periphery.

III. "White against Black" and "Reason against Magic" were among the contradictions Orientalism raised.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Orientalism?

Which of the following poststructuralist scholar wrote “Madness and Civilization”?

• Orientalism is the term used by him based on the assesments of the attitudes and perspectives of the Western scholars or Orientalists to legitimize colonial aggression by intellectually marginalized and dominated Eastern peoples.
• He also defines the term as: “Anyone who teaches, writes about, or researches the Orient, which applies whether the person is an anthropologist, sociologist, historian, or philologist either in its specific or its general aspects, is an Orientalist, and what he or she does is Orientalism.”
  Who is the scholar defined above?

1. Scholars of International Relations are necessarily participants in the world politics, not independent observers.
2. Neither theorists nor theories which consist of ideas can not be politically neutral contrarily they do have a political and social impact.
3. Scholar must be a Godlike detachment or have otherworldliness for this assumption to be possible.
4. Theoretical knowledge is not independent from the values, thoughts and ideological beliefs of the theorist.

Which of the arguments above can be used by an advocator of poststructualism in the context of International Relations?

I. It can be defined as a worldview or even an anti worldview suspicious about the fact that events in the world can not be explained without grand theories

II. It is regarded as a critical attitude or approach that emphasizes the importance of representation, the role of discourse in the meaning of international relations and the relationship between knowledge and power.

1. Which approach is described by the above sentences?

• The kind of security is commonly defined as the most intriguing of the five sectors considered in the Copenhagen School.
• In this sector of security,  a reference object of security is not the state as a government or a territorial entity, but rather as a collective identity.
• The organizing concept in this sector is identity. Insecurity exists when communities of whatever kind define a development or potentiality as a threat to their survival as a community.
• It represents the security of ‘we’ identities such as national identity groups.
  Which security sector is defined above?

"Poststructuralism has a lot in common with_______"

Which of the following completes the sentence above the best?

• She is known to contribute to the problematizing of “Can Subaltern Speak” in post-colonial theory.
• She is also a researcher who came from subaltern tradition in India. Hermain contribution to post-colonialism and her work famous in postcolonialism is to explore and discuss whether or not to speak of subaltern.
• According to her, the concept of subaltern is concentrated on all exploited people.
  Which post-colonial scholar is mentioned above?

"______argues that the system level analysis best capture security relations in today’s world."

Which of the following completes the sentence the best?

Which of the following works was the first one to introduce the concept of deconstruction?

1. The theory of securitization
2. The notion of different sectors of security
3. Regional security complex theory
4. The theory of international politics

Which of the above are among the major contributions of The Copenhagen School?

For the Copenhagen School, in the military sector, what is the most important referent object?

According to Said, which of the followings best describes the orientalists' preception of peoples different from the west?

What is the opposite of "balance of power"?

Which of the following brings issues out of emergency politics and back into the boundaries of normal politics; therefore, is much desirable?

What is the term for shifting an issue out of the realm of ‘normal’ political debate into the realm of emergency politics by presenting it as an existential threat?

1. Broadening the conception and research scope of security
2. Providing a framework for security analysis
3. Analysis of how an issue is securitized and desecuritized
4. Reconceptualization of the notion of security
   How did the Copenhange School help with the concept of security?