Geopolitics tests

Collection of tasks on discipline "geopolitics"


Task 1.

Question 1. What is geopolitics?


1. It is a science that studies the complex geographical, historical and political factors affecting the capacity of the state;

2. it is a science, a system of knowledge on the control of space;

3. This doctrine views the state as a geographical body.


Question 2: Is it true that geopolitics does not become a real tool for changing the world and is the key to forecasting the policy of the leading countries?


1. Yes;

2. No.


Question 3. Which of the following is NOT a scientific approach, on the basis of which could not be geopolitics?


1. The civilized;

2. The military-strategic;

3. Geographical determinalizma theories;

4. History.


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


1. American naval theorist, historian Alfred Mahan (1840-1914 gg.);

2. Russian scientist N. Danilevsky (1822-1885 gg.);

3. Professor of Geography, University of London, Henry Thomas Buckle.


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


1. Planetary space, geopolitical processes and phenomena in the world community as a system;

2. The study of the states in their relation to space;

3. The dynamics of the historical development of their relations.


Task 2.

Question 1. What is the geopolitical era has changed the world, which has become multipolar from bipolar?


1. The era of Vienna;

2. Versailles era;

3. Potsdam era;

4. Bialowieza era.


Question 2. What is the method used by geopolitics, focused on the study of the dependence of behavior of individuals or groups of their inclusion in a global community?


1. System method;

2. comparative method;

3. The method of the activity;

4. functional method;

5. institutional method.


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


1. Prognostic;

2. management;

3. cognitive;

4. ideological.


Question 4. Is it true that as a result the existing unipolar world after the destruction of the collective security system in Eastern Europe the ideological side of the geopolitical function of effort?


1. Yes;

2. No.


Question 5: Who is considered the "father" of geopolitics, in the views which can be seen the idea of \u200b\u200bevolution and Darwinism?


1. The German scientist Friedrich Ratzel;

2. Swedish geopolitics, Rudolf Challen;

3. English scientist - Helford Mackinder geopolitics;

4. US Admiral Alfred T. Mahan.


Task 3.

Question 1. Who of the scientists - geopolitics belongs basic thesis: the state - a living organism?


1. The German scientist Friedrich Ratzel;

2. Swedish geopolitics Rudolph Kjellen;

3. British scientist - Helford Mackinder geopolitics;

4. US Admiral Alfred T. Mahan.


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


1. It puts in the first place is not the geographical fatalism, but the will and initiative of human rights;

2. The essence of the concept - the organization of strict control of the coastal territory of Eurasia: Europe, Arab countries, India, China, Southeast Asia, etc .;

3. In accordance with this concept, the main driving force of the state serves the struggle for the expansion of living space.


Question 3. What is the thesis in the geopolitics of the West took the lead from the beginning of the Potsdam era?


1. The thesis about the necessity of strict control of the coastal territory of Eurasia;

2. The thesis of the superiority of Western civilization over the nations of Eurasia and other co