Arts (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Examine any six consequences of the disintegration of USSR.

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:-

1. What are the two most essential functions of the state?
2. How do enhanced technologies enable the state to rule better?
3. Justify with the help of an example that globalisation gives a boost to the state capacity.

How did the Soviet Union suddenly disintegrate? Explain any six reasons.

How does it function with the help of its structures and agencies?

Describe the security challenges faced by the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa after the Second World War.

How was the U.S. benefited by the Soviet disintegration?

Distinguish between the internal and external notion of traditional security.

If the Soviet Union had not disintegrated and the world had remained bipolar, how would that situation have affected the world politics?

Give any three suitable arguments to support India's candidature for the permanent membership of the U.N. Security Council.

How is balance of power a component of traditional security?

Mention any two characteristics of the Soviet economy during the cold war days.

How many member countries have got Veto power in the U.N. Security Council and why?

Explain the ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’.

Name one country each from the continents of America, Africa, Asia and Europe, wherein the U. N. 'Peacekeeping Operations' were administered.

Describe any four consequences of the disintegration of Soviet Union

Analyse India’s changing relationship with post-Communist Russia.

Write an essay for or against the following proposition: “With the disintegration of the second world, India should change its foreign policy and focus more on friendship with the US rather than with traditional friends like Russia”.

Read the three extracts in the chapter from the Lok Sabha debate on the Indo-US deal. Develop any one of these into a full speech defending a certain position on Indo-US relations.

How are the external powers influencing bilateral relations in South Asia? Take any one example to illustrate your point. 

Write a short note on the role and the limitations of SAARC as a forum for facilitating economic cooperation among the South Asian countries.