Deneme Sınavı Soruları

I- Language

II- Culture

III-Grand Theories

IV- Identity 

V- Historicity 

Which of the above takes an important place in poststructuralist analysis? 

I. Threats to security are objective.

II. Threats are intersubjective.

III. Security cannot be confined only to the military sector.

Which of the above reflect Copenhagen School's views about security?

1. Poststructuralism can be defined as a worldview or even an antiworldview suspicious about the fact that events in the world can not be explained without grand theories.
2. Rather than being a theory, poststructuralism is regarded as a critical attitude or approach that emphasizes the importance of representation, the role of discoure in the meaning of international relations and the relationship between knowledge and power.
3. Poststructuralism is not a new school with its own actors, subject and members, but an approach that tries to explain its concerns with some questions.
4. Poststructualism is an attitude or mentality that tries to make alternative policies possible with its critiques.

Which of the above are correct in the context of the definition of poststructualism?

• Race is not a contingent determination that could be subsumed under the general category of class, but is a distinctive and autonomous form of social, economic and political inequality.
• The significance of the revolutionary act as also a psychological and intellectual transformation, which must accompany material transformation, or the socialist reorganization of production.
• Individual freedom is an essential component of a socialist synthesis that should guarantee democratic participation in the construction of socialism.
  Whose thoughts of post-colonial theory were characterized by the three aspects above?

I. It represent the security of "we" identities such as national identity groups.

II. It is considered as the most intriguing of the five sectors in the CS.

III. It involves a development or potentiality as a threat to people's survival as a community.

Which of the security sector features is described above?

A _________ community is a different social structure, composed of shared knowledge in which states trust each other to resolve disputes without war. States’ ideas about each other, then, become an important determinant of the nature of structure.

Which of the followings does post-colonial theory mainly criticize?

.................... is the whole of the practices that construct the objects it speaks on or creates its own truth. 

1. It is the alleviation of threats to cherished values.
2. It can be explained by identifying an objective situation as threatening to an objective entity.
3. In Realism the state is seen as the main object, and war as the main threat to it.
4. The survival of the state is the main objective.
   Which concept is defined above?

Who acknowledges that imperialism is an expression of the desire for unlimited expansion which is considered as an irrational behaviour and also as a remnant of atavistic social culture?

1. It should not be understood that poststructuralists are anti-state.
2. Poststructualism neither ignores the state nor aims to move beyond the state.
3. Poststructuralists, do not seek to explicate international politics by focusing on the state which is accepted as a given subject.
4. According to poststructualists, the problematic is the state-centric perspective and the limitations and costs that this perspective causes by ignoring many aspects of world politics.

Which of the above are correct in the context of postsructualist approach?

Which of the followings emphasizes the linguistic construction of subjects, resulting in discursive practices?

I. Colonialism signified ruling over indigenous people and extraction of their wealth.

II. Colonialism focused on the transfer of communities who sought to maintain their own original culture.

III. It is emphasised in Colonialism that the control of nature and system based on knowledge will ensure human salvation.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Colonialism?

I. Regional level is the best starting point in studying security. 

II. Early versions of RSCT focused on the state as the primary unit of analysis.

III. There is an interdependence among the national security interests of a group of states locals in close proximity.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Regional Security Complex Theory?

1. Western scholars legitimize colonial aggression.
2. East was marginalized by Western world in literature, history and social areas.
3. West is originally “the Self “, in contrast, East is “the other”.
4. West sees itself as the center of the world and the other as the periphery.
   Which are the basic assumptions of Orientalism?

These theories generally “explain security by identifying an objective situation as threatening to an objective entity”. In other words, according to them security means a freedom from any objective military threat to the state survival in an anarchic international system.

 Which theories are mentioned above?

Speech Act Theory was founded by ___________.

Which of the following scholars stands out as one of the most important figures in Constructivist IR theory?

Which of the following statements about environmental sector is false?

Postcolonial formation tries to _________ modern knowledge designed by Western ideology, and it tries to provide localization of knowledge by using pluralistic knowledge principle, that is, there is no single truth/knowledge and was shaped according to the subject and its culture.