Globalization and the Transformation of Political Community
Globalization and the Transformation of Political Community Subcategories
Globalization and the Transformation of Political Community
What is meant by group rights?

A. Rights belonging to groups such as minority nations rather than to individuals
B. Rights unfairly belonging to a privileged group
C. Rights belonging to a political community
D. None of the above

What is meant by the ‘intensive’ power of modern states?

A. Power that can be projected deep into society
B. Power based on controlling the instruments of violence
C. Power that can be projected across whole territories
D. Power that a state holds by virtue of its population

Endemic warfare is:

A. the history of ethnic cleansing by liberal democratic states
B. the cosmopolitan understanding of the role of war in human affairs
C. the condition in which warfare is a recurrent feature of the relations between states not least because they regard it as inevitable
D. all of the above

What are the main tenets of communitarianism?

A. They argue that most people value their membership of a political community; they are unlikely to shift their loyalty to the human race
B. All forms of political community contain the danger of generating the domination or exclusion of significant sections of society
C. They see globalization weakening community ties
D. b and c

What is a political community?

A. A human association in which members share common symbols and wish to cooperate to realize common objectives
B. A community that wishes to govern itself and be free from alien rule
C. A community in which the state claims legitimacy on grounds that it represents them
D. A community that feels loyalty to a nation-state

Which of the following challenge traditional conceptions of political community?

A. Fragmentation
B. Globalization
C. Nationalism
D. a and b