Deneme Sınavı Soruları

The energy exploration in and around the Caspian Basin created a source of tension and a strong competition among international actors. Which of the following cannot be listed among these actors?

What was the official U.S. policy during the 1980s and 1990s that aimed at surrounding
Iran and Iraq, the two most strategic adversaries of the U.S. and Israel in the Middle East?

The theory of geopolitics that Friedrich Ratzel introduced was:

1. Third generation geopolitics began with the end of the Cold War rivalry between two opposing power blocks adopting diverging political ideologies.
2. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the unification of Germany in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 epitomized the end of ideological geopolitics.
3. Since the early 1990s till the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, analysts observed the rise of a new geopolitical understanding being defined by many as a new world order.
4. New world order geopolitics suggested that there was only one super power all over the world and all other states would gain influence in international politics in relation to the status of their relationship with the global hegemon.
5. That sole superpower happened to be the United States.
6. There was a huge power gap between the United States and all other countries and it was nearly impossible for any country, acting alone or in cooperation with others, to counterbalance the American hegemony.
7. Hence, bandwagoning appears to have replaced balancing in the age American primacy in global politics.

Which of the statements above related to third generation geopoltics are correct?

Which one below is NOT correct?

Which of the following is TRUE about the Northern Caucasus?

I.It has nineteen native national groups according to the last Soviet census recognized
in 1989 and with a significant ethnic Russian Diaspora.

II.The North Caucasus is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse regions of the world.

III.It has the non-titular populations of Cossacks, Nogai and a number of others. 

Geopolitics has become even more relevant in this age of information and mobilization. Which of the following can be an example of this?

Who offered the idea that a new panEuropean security organization should be founded replacing western-dominated ones?

Which of the following is TRUE about the Cold War era?

I.There was an a bipolar international system.

II.The camps were the liberal-democratic capitalist western countries and authoritarian communist eastern countries. 

III.Turkey was in the eastern bloc.

IV.The Soviet Union and Peoples’ Republic of China colloborated during this era.

Which of the followings is the place where historically modern Russia emerged into the historical stage?

According to.............., whoever controls Eastern Europe controls the Heartland, moving ahead in the quest to achieve world dominance

Which of the following should be brought into space above?

Which of the following war was waged as a result of domino theory?

1. Unlike Mackinder, Alfred Mahan, a military historian in the United States, argued that the road to global primacy in international politics would go through mastering oceans and other sea lines.
2. He recommended that the leaders of the United States follow in the footsteps of the British Empire to build up a massive naval force if they want to become the most powerful country on earth.
3. In Mahan’s thinking, controlling sea traffic through a powerful navy would absolve the United States of taking direct control of other countries.
4. To Mahan, the United States should avoid transforming other nations in the image of American values and stay away from nation-building exercises in far distant places.
5. Mahan was of the view that Hamiltonianism would serve American global interests better than other strategies.

Which of the statements above related to Alfred Mahan are correct?

Which of the following countries has been using energy as a tool of political leverage in its foreign policy after solidifying its geopolitical and military might?

Minsk Group was established to encourage a peaceful resolution to the conflict between which of the following countries?

Which one of the following is not regarded as a particular strand of geopolitics?

Which political thinkers state that states are like living organisms that require lebensraum, viz. living spaces, to survive in the anarchical international environment?

When was Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) established?

During the Second World War, the Northern Caucasus witnessed intense conflicts between Nazi
Germany and the Soviet Union. And which of the following occupied significant parts of the Northern Caucasus?

Which one below is NOT one of the factors that shape the national security issues of each nation state and significantly impact upon the formulation and realization of its national interests?