Global Security Concerns Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The five Central Asian countries were formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were Soviet Socialist Republics until the USSR dissolved in December 1991, when they became independent.

They were never part of India or Afghanistan as modern states, and although China borders three of them, they were not Chinese territory.

Answer: C

The key gives FRONTEX.

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, coordinates the EU's external border control. Its sea operations in the Mediterranean, such as Triton and Themis, have included search and rescue of migrants in distress, which is why it is the answer the key accepts.

The other options are not EU agencies: 'EU SEA ACT', 'EUBMA' as an Act, and 'EBACGA' do not exist under these names.

Answer: B

The answer is the International Convention on the Protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families (ICRMW) (July 01, 2003).

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1990, the ICRMW is the most comprehensive international treaty on the rights of migrant workers and their families. It entered into force on 1 July 2003 after the twentieth ratification.

The other treaty names and dates in the options are not real instruments; the UNHCR's mandate covers refugees, not migrant workers.

Answer: C

The Senkaku Islands are under the control of Japan.

The uninhabited islands in the East China Sea are administered by Japan, which incorporated them in 1895. They are claimed by the People's Republic of China (as the Diaoyu Islands) and by Taiwan, the Republic of China (as Tiaoyutai).

China and Taiwan claim them but do not control them, and South Korea has no claim; its dispute with Japan is over Dokdo/Takeshima. Tension rose after September 2012, when Japan bought three of the islands from their private owner and Chinese ships began regular patrols nearby.

Answer: A

The Blue Dot Network was led by the US, Japan and Australia.

Announced in November 2019 by the United States, Japan and Australia, the Blue Dot Network is a certification framework for quality infrastructure projects that meet standards of transparency, sustainability and financial soundness, seen as an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative.

India and the UK were not its founding leads, and China is the country whose infrastructure model it was meant to counter.

Answer: A

The Kyoto Protocol is related to climate change.

The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set binding targets for industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Refugees and internally displaced persons are dealt with by other conventions and by the UNHCR, and nuclear power is dealt with by the IAEA and other treaties.

The treaty came into force in 2005 and the United States did not ratify it, which weakened its effect.

Answer: D

The idea of sustainable development was conceived by the Brundtland Commission.

The World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, defined sustainable development in its report Our Common Future (1987) as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The Canberra Commission dealt with nuclear weapons, and the Mandal and Srikrishna commissions are Indian commissions on backward classes and on the Mumbai riots.

The idea has three parts that are often named: economic growth, social development and the protection of the environment.

Answer: C

The thing whose significance has reduced is international conflict over ideology.

With the end of the Cold War, the long contest between capitalism and communism lost its force, so ideological conflict between states mattered less in the new world order.

International organisations, economic and human welfare issues, and international law have gained importance, not lost it, so the other options are wrong.

In the post Cold War world, trade, human rights, terrorism and the environment have taken the place of ideological competition as subjects of international politics.

Answer: C

The correct matching is 3 1 2 4.

Azerbaijan is in the Caucasus region, Tajikistan is in Central Asia, Syria is in the Middle East, and Latvia, a Baltic state, is in Eastern Europe in this classification.

The other codes place Azerbaijan in the Middle East or Syria in Central Asia, which does not fit the map.

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are the three Baltic states that left the Soviet Union in 1991, and Tajikistan was among the Central Asian republics that became independent in the same year.

Answer: B

The correct matching is 4 3 1 2.

Angola has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean, Tanzania on the Indian Ocean, Tunisia on the Mediterranean Sea, and Bulgaria on the Black Sea.

The other codes give Tunisia to the Atlantic, or Bulgaria to the Mediterranean, but Tunisia faces the Mediterranean and Bulgaria the Black Sea.

Angola's coast runs for about 1,600 km along the South Atlantic, and Tanzania's coast, with Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, faces the Indian Ocean.