Solution: (2) The correct chronological order of the UN system is;

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – 1944
International Finance Corporation – 1956
International Development Association – 1960
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency – 1988

Solution: (2) World Trade Organisation is the supreme international body for trade.
It was established on 1st January 1995. Its Headquarter is in Geneva (Switzerland).
It is the only international organization dealing with global trade rules between nations.

Solution:  (2) International Labour Union was Established in 1919 after the end of the First World War. It was then a part of the League of Nations. Later in 1946, It became a Specialized agency of the United Nation.

Solution: (1) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was born on 16 November 1945. UNESCO has 195 Members and 8 Associate Members and is governed by the General Conference and the Executive Board.

Solution: (4) Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. It did not perpetuates parochial culture.

Solution: (3) The Chinese leader Mao described Tibet’s right palm and Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal and Arunachal Pradesh as its five fingers.

Answer: (3) The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005.

Answer: (3) India was elected to the United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday for a period of three years beginning January 1, 2019.

Answer: (2) Many Afro-Asian countries like India, Sri Lanka, Ghana etc. got their independence after the second world war, but their independence is not completely realized because the level of economic development was extremely low.

Ans. (3) Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter deals with peaceful settlement of disputes. The Charter related to the pacific settlement of disputes which requires the parties themselves to seek a solution to their dispute by any peaceful means of their own choice, and that the Council should give every opportunity to the parties to do so.

Ans. (1) Under the United nation Charter the significance is given to the principle of ‘State Sovereignty’. It also considers that national Interest is the supreme interest of any nation. Due to this the Cold War and decolonisation process had discouraged more active involvement by the United Nations within the state.

Ans. (2) India-ASEAN relations have evolved over time, with India graduating from the Southeast Asian grouping’s Sectoral Dialogue Partner in 1992 to a Dialogue Partner in 1996 to Summit Level Partner in 2002.

Ans. (1) Security is one of the most important concepts in International Relations, since it is related to the safety of states and their citizens and their very survival. It is a multidimensional concept for realization and usually have contested understanding.

Ans. (2) The Democratic Peace Theory statesthat countries with liberal democratic forms of government are less likely to go to war with one another than those with other forms of government. Democratic peace theory has been largely associated with the writings of Michael Doyle and Bruce Russett.

Ans. (1) Neo Liberals like Robert Nozick, from their Lockean Universe Seek to create international regimes that optimize the concept of rational exploitation of nature.

Ans. (3) The criteria of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of the state are:  (1)  a permanent population,  (2)  a defined territory,  (3)  government and  (4)  the capacity to enter into relations with other States.

Ans. (4) Collective Security and balance of power policy are compatible under usual circumstances. The balance of power principle is derived by Structural Realism and the concept of Collective security is proposed by Liberal Institutionalists.

Ans. (4) The ‘Global Commons ’refers to resource domains or areas that lie outside of the political reach of any one nation State. Thus international law identifies four global commons namely: the High Seas; the Atmosphere; Antarctica; and Outer Space. Arctic region is not a global commons

Ans. (4) Constructivism is a learning theory found in psychology which explains how people might acquire knowledge and learn. It therefore has direct application to education. The theory suggests that humans construct knowledge and meaning from their experiences. Constructivism argue that the social world is of our making (Onuf 1989). Actors continually shape – and sometimes reshape – the very nature of international relations through their actions and interactions.