Global Security Concerns Questions and Answers

Answer: D

All three threats mentioned are reasons why the Indian Ocean must not be treated as a dumping ground: oil spills in coastal zones, sea pollution from dead coral zones and growing pollutants, and global warming harming sensitive marine ecosystems and biodiversity.

Since each of the first three statements is a real threat and the coast guards and navies of the region need to deal with all of them, the combined option is right.

Answer: C

The Muslim Brotherhood as a political party belongs to Egypt. It was founded there in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, and after the 2011 revolution its Freedom and Justice Party won elections and Mohamed Morsi became president.

It has branches in other countries, but its main base and its role as a political party are Egyptian. Iran, Syria and Pakistan are not its home. The movement was banned and revived several times in Egypt, and its political party appeared only after the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

Answer: B

The Senkaku Islands (called Diaoyu by China) are a disputed territory between Japan and China in the East China Sea. Japan controls them, while China and Taiwan also claim them.

The other pairs are not parties to the dispute: China and South Korea argue over a submerged rock, Malaysia and Singapore had a dispute over Pedra Branca, and the pair of Taiwan and China is a different case. Japan and China is the standard answer.

Answer: D

All three conditions are needed to promote human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration in the post-cold war, globalising world. They are a redistribution of power on universal values, economic reform and conflict resolution on just grounds, and public-private partnership for development to ensure human security.

Each of the first three is a partial condition, and the three together make the full answer, which is why the combined option is right.

Answer: B

The statement that without question Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation is associated with the Clinton Administration, which took this position during the Chechen wars of the 1990s while criticising Russia's use of force.

The Bush and Obama Administrations held different postures in later years, and the Carter Administration was before the Russian Federation existed. So the Clinton Administration is the one named by the key.

Answer: A

The leaders belong to the following countries: Abdul Gamal Nasser to Egypt, Colonel Gaddafi to Libya, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Bangladesh and Srimavo Bandaranaike to Sri Lanka. This is a-ii, b-iii, c-iv and d-i.

Nasser led Egypt after the 1952 revolution, Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1969, Mujib was the founding leader of Bangladesh, and Bandaranaike was the world's first woman prime minister, of Sri Lanka. The other codes mix these countries.

Answer: B

The chronological order is the Yom Kippur War (October 1973), the Arab Spring (which began in December 2010 and spread in 2011), the Fukushima nuclear disaster (March 2011) and the Chinese intrusion in India's Depsang Bulge or DBO sector (April 2013).

The options that put the Arab Spring first or the Chinese intrusion first break the order, since the Yom Kippur War is by far the oldest event. The one that places Fukushima before the Arab Spring does not agree with the start of the uprisings in Tunisia in late 2010.

Answer: B

The NAM summits were held as follows: the 2nd summit (1964) in Cairo, the 4th (1973) in Algiers, the 7th (1983) in New Delhi and the 10th (1992) in Jakarta. This is a-iv, b-iii, c-i and d-ii.

The other codes place the summits in the wrong cities, for example Algiers for the second summit, though that city hosted the fourth. The Non-Aligned Movement was founded in Belgrade in 1961, so the later summits moved among member countries, and the dates given in the list fix each venue.

Answer: A

The key gives Islamabad. The Pakistan Military Academy is at Kakul near Abbottabad, in the hill country not far north of Islamabad, so among the four options the capital is the nearest and is the only one in that part of the country.

Lahore and Karachi are far to the south and Dhaka is in Bangladesh, which no longer belongs to Pakistan, so they cannot be the answer. The key is kept as printed.

Answer: D

The correct matching is a-III, b-IV, c-II, d-I, which is code (D) III IV II I.

Iraq's invasion in 1990 was of Kuwait. The civil war in Bosnia and Kosovo came with the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Glasnost and Perestroika were the policies of openness and restructuring in Russia, then the Soviet Union, under Gorbachev. The terrorist acts against the United States, including 11 September 2001, are linked with Al Qaeda.

The other codes give these events to the wrong country or group, such as treating Glasnost as part of the break-up of Yugoslavia.