GEOPOLITICS test

COLLECTION OF TASKS ON THE DISCIPLINE "GEOPOLITICS"

Task 1.
Question 1. What is geopolitics?

1. This is a science that studies a complex of geographical, historical, political factors that affect the potential of the state;
2. it is a science, a system of knowledge about control over space;
3. it is a doctrine that views the state as a geographic organism.

Question 2. Is it true that geopolitics has not become a real instrument for changing the world and does not serve as a key to forecasting the policies of leading countries?

1. Yes;
2. not.

Question 3. Which of the following does NOT apply to the scientific approach, on the basis of which geopolitics could not arise?

1. Civilized;
2. military-strategic;
3. theories of geographical determinism;
4. historical.

Question 4. Who is considered the founder of the civilizational approach to the historical process?

1. American naval theorist, historian Alfred Mahen (1840-1914);
2.Russian scientist N.Ya. Danilevsky (1822-1885);
3. Professor of Geography, University of London Henry Thomas Bockle.

Question 5. What is the object of geopolitics as a science?

1. Planetary space, geopolitical processes and phenomena in the world community as a system;
2. study of states in their relation to space;
3. dynamics of the historical development of states and their relationships.

Task 2.
Question 1. What geopolitical era has changed the world from multipolar to bipolar?

1. Vienna era;
2. Versailles era;
3. Potsdam era;
4. Belovezhskaya era.

Question 2. What method used by geopolitics is focused on studying the dependence of the behavior of individuals or groups on their inclusion in more global communities?

1. Systemic method;
2. comparative method;
3. activity method;
4. functional method;
5. institutional method.

Question 3. What function of geopolitics is associated with the study of trends in the geopolitical development of countries and peoples, with the study of various phenomena, processes, events?

1. Prognostic;
2. managerial;
3. cognitive;
4. ideological.

Question 4. Is it true that as a result of the current unipolar world after the destruction of the collective security system of the countries of Eastern Europe, the ideological side of the geopolitical function has increased?

1. Yes;
2. not.

Question 5. Who is considered the "father" of geopolitics, in whose system of views the ideas of evolutionism and Darwinism are visible?

1. German scientist Friedrich Ratzel;
2. Swedish geopolitician Rudolf Kjellen;
3. English scientist - geopolitician Helford Mackinder;
4.American Admiral Alfred T. Mahen.

Task 3.
Question 1. To whom of the scientists - geopoliticians belongs the main thesis: the state is a living organism?

1. German scientist Friedrich Ratzel;
2. Swedish geopolitician Rudolf Kjellen;
3. English scientist - geopolitician Helford Mackinder;
4. American Admiral Alfred T. Mahen.

Question 2. What is the essence of the concept of "possibilism" by the founder of the French geopolitical school Vidal de la Blanche?

1. It puts in the first place not geographical fatalism, but the will and initiative of man;
2. the essence of the concept is the organization of strict control of the coastal territories of Eurasia: Europe, Arab countries, India, China, Southeast Asia, etc .;
3. in accordance with this concept, the main driving force of the state is the struggle to expand the living space.

Question 3. What thesis in the geopolitics of the West has taken the leading place since the beginning of the Potsdam era?

1. Thesis on the need to organize strict control of the coastal territories of Eurasia;
2. the thesis of the superiority of Western civilization over the peoples of Eurasia and other continents;
3. thesis on the need for geopolitical expansion;
4. thesis on the creation of a "continental block".

Question 4. When was the beginning of the creation of the Franco-West German union, the core of a united Europe at the end of the XNUMXth century, which surpassed the United States in terms of main indicators?

1. In the 50s;
2.in the 60s;
3.in the 70s;
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