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Explain the meaning of security and mention its two notions.
Concept: Non-traditional Notions
Explain any two objectives of terrorism.
Concept: New Sources of Threats
Highlight any two classic cases of terrorism.
Concept: New Sources of Threats
______ ensures that rivals do not go to war through misunderstanding or misconception.
Concept: Traditional Security and Cooperation
Analyse India’s stand on any three environmental issues.
Concept: India's Stand on Environmental Issues
What was the 'Earth Summit? How far did the summit prove to be useful? Explain.
Concept: Environment Movements: One Or Many?
Describe any three steps taken by the Indian Government to check the environmental degradation.
Concept: India's Stand on Environmental Issues
Which action of the Government of India threatened the fish workers' lives in a major way? Which organisation did they form at the national level?
Concept: Rights of Indigenous People
'Let the polluters pay'. Support this statement with any two suitable arguments.
Concept: Environment Movements: One Or Many?
Highlight any two international movements against the environmental degradation.
Concept: Environmental Concerns in Global Politics
Analyse any two adverse effects of the construction of Mega dams.
Concept: Environment Movements: One Or Many?
Match the List I with the List II.
| List I | List II | ||
| A. | Indigenous people of the Cordillera region | (i) | Chile |
| B. | Mapuche | (ii) | Bangladesh |
| C. | Tribal people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts | (iii) | Philippines |
| D. | Kuna tribe | (iv) | East of Panama Canal |
Concept: The Indigenous Peoples and Their Rights
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
| ‘Commons’ are those resources which are not owned by anyone but rather shared by a community. This could be a ‘common room’, a ‘community centre’, a park or a river. Similarly, there are some areas or regions of the world which are located outside the sovereign jurisdiction of any one state, and therefore require common governance by the international community. These are known as res communis humanitatis or global commons. |
- Which of the following is a part of global commons?
- Ocean floor
- River Narmada
- Thar desert
- Nilgiris
- The Earth Summit was held in ______.
- Kyoto
- Rio- de- Janeiro
- Rome
- Montreal
- Which of the following agencies of the United Nations is associated in dealing with environmental issues?
- UNESCO
- ECOSOC
- UNEP
- UNFCCC
- Why is cooperation over global commons not easy?
- Task cannot be monitored
- Lack of consensus on common environmental agendas.
- Similar approach to environment between the global north and south.
- All of the above
Concept: The Protection of Global Commons
Why is it said that history of petroleum is also the history of war and struggles?
Concept: India as an Arena of Globalization and Struggle Against It
Examine the conditions responsible for the growth of Naxalite Movement in India. Suggest ways and means to crush it.
Concept: Anti-globalisation Movements
Globalisation does not always reduce state capacity. The primacy of the state continues to be unchallenged basis of political community. The old jealousies and rivalries between countries have not ceased to matter in world politics. The state continues to discharge its essential functions (law and order national security) and consciously withdraws from certain domains from which it wishes to. States continue to be important
Indeed, in some respects state capacity has received a boost as a consequence of globalisation, with enhanced technologies available at the disposal of the state to collect information about its citizens.
Read the passage given above carefully and answer the following questions:-
- What are the two most essential functions of the state?
- How do enhanced technologies enable the state to rule better?
- Justify with the help of an example that globalisation gives a boost to the state capacity.
Concept: Debates on the Nature of Consequences of Globalisation
In the given outline map of South Asia, five countries have been marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Identify them on the basis of the information given below and write their correct names in your answer book with their respective serial number of the information used and the alphabet concerned as per the following format:
| SR. No. of the Information used | Alphabet concerned | Name of the country |
Information used
(i) to (v)
(i) The country has experienced civilian as well as military rule both.
(ii) Democracy was restored in this country in 2006.
(iii) This country is still a monarchy.
(iv) The Parliament of this country voted unanimously to introduce multiparty system in June 2005.
(v) This country is a part of India's 'Look East Policy via Myanmar'.
Concept: India as an Arena of Globalization and Struggle Against It
Describe any three effects of globalisation on the culture of a country.
Concept: Economic, Cultural and Political Manifestations
Study the given political outline map of north-East India in which six states have been marked as A, B, C, D, E and F. Identify these states with the help of information provided below and write their names along with their respective letters i.e. A, B, C, D, E, and F in your answer book.
i. Two states which were not part of the state of Assam were at the time of India’s independence.
ii. The state whose leader signed an agreement with Rajiv Gandhi in 1986.
iii. The state which declared independence from India in 1951.
iv. The state which was carved out of Assam in 1972.
v. The 22nd state of India due to its merger.
Concept: Economic, Cultural and Political Manifestations
Name the leader who led a peoples’ march to Parliament in 1975 and state as to what was unique about this march.
Concept: Political Consequences
