Chapter-5 Security in the Contemporary World — Online MCQ Test
POLITICAL SCIENCE · Grade 12 · CBSE(NCERT)
Practice Chapter-5 Security in the Contemporary World with a free chapter-wise online MCQ test.
This chapter covers: traditional security - non-traditional security - terrorism - poverty - health pandemics - deterrence.
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Chapter-5 Security in the Contemporary World — Important Questions & Answers
Which of the following is considered a traditional security threat?
- A. Military invasion and territorial aggression
- B. Pandemic diseases
- C. Climate change
- D. Economic inequality
Answer: A. Military invasion and territorial aggression
Traditional security focuses on military and state-to-state threats like invasion and territorial disputes, as opposed to non-traditional threats.
Traditional security focuses on military and state-to-state threats like invasion and territorial disputes, as opposed to non-traditional threats.
What does 'non-traditional security' primarily concern itself with?
- A. Only nuclear weapons
- B. Issues like poverty, disease, environmental degradation, and terrorism
- C. Naval blockades
- D. Border disputes between nations
Answer: B. Issues like poverty, disease, environmental degradation, and terrorism
Non-traditional security broadens the concept of security beyond military threats to include socio-economic and environmental challenges.
Non-traditional security broadens the concept of security beyond military threats to include socio-economic and environmental challenges.
The relationship between poverty and security is best described as:
- A. Unrelated
- B. Poverty directly leads to social instability and can fuel terrorism and conflict
- C. Only affects developed nations
- D. A temporary economic issue
Answer: B. Poverty directly leads to social instability and can fuel terrorism and conflict
Poverty creates social instability, lack of opportunities, and grievances that can be exploited by terrorist groups and lead to conflict.
Poverty creates social instability, lack of opportunities, and grievances that can be exploited by terrorist groups and lead to conflict.
Analyzing the relationship between inequality and terrorism, which is MOST accurate?
- A. Inequality has no connection to terrorist recruitment
- B. Economic and social inequality can create grievances exploited by terrorist organizations for recruitment and radicalization
- C. Only wealthy countries experience terrorism
- D. Terrorism is purely a religious phenomenon unrelated to economic factors
Answer: B. Economic and social inequality can create grievances exploited by terrorist organizations for recruitment and radicalization
Research shows that relative deprivation and inequality create conditions where terrorist groups can recruit by offering identity and purpose to marginalized individuals.
Research shows that relative deprivation and inequality create conditions where terrorist groups can recruit by offering identity and purpose to marginalized individuals.
Advanced: How do transnational issues like pandemics and terrorism fundamentally alter the traditional concept of state sovereignty in security matters?
- A. They reinforce absolute state sovereignty
- B. They necessitate shared responsibility, cross-border cooperation, and sometimes supranational coordination that transcends traditional sovereignty limits
- C. Sovereignty remains completely unchanged
- D. Only military issues affect sovereignty
Answer: B. They necessitate shared responsibility, cross-border cooperation, and sometimes supranational coordination that transcends traditional sovereignty limits
Transnational threats require states to collaborate beyond traditional boundaries, sharing intelligence and resources, thereby qualifying absolute sovereignty.
Transnational threats require states to collaborate beyond traditional boundaries, sharing intelligence and resources, thereby qualifying absolute sovereignty.