Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

Match List- I with List- II

List- I

List- II

(A) HIV-AIDS

(I) Rwanda

(B) Global Warming

(II) Bangladesh

(C) Global Poverty

(III) Maldives

(D) Genocide

(IV) South Africa

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(3) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

2

Explanation:

Correct match:
(A) HIV-AIDS - (IV) South Africa
(B) Global Warming - (III) Maldives
(C) Global Poverty - (II) Bangladesh
(D) Genocide - (I) Rwanda

Since the 1990s, developments such as Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the genocide in Rwanda, and the Indonesian military’s killing of people in East Timor have led to a debate on whether or not the UN should intervene to stop human rights abuses.

Global poverty is another source of insecurity. World population—now at 760 crore— will grow to nearly 1000 crore by the middle of the 21st century. Currently, half the world’s population growth occurs in just six countries—India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Among the world’s poorest countries, population is expected to triple in the next 50 years, whereas many rich countries will see population shrinkage in that period. For example, due to global warming, a sea level rise of 1.5–2.0 meters would flood 20 percent of Bangladesh, inundate most of the Maldives, and threaten nearly half the population of Thailand. Since these problems are global in nature, international cooperation is vital, even though it is difficult to achieve

To qualify as a security problem, therefore, an issue must share a minimum common criterion, say, of threatening the very existence of the referent (a state or group of people) though the precise nature of this threat may be different. For example, the Maldives may feel threatened by global warming because a big part of its territory may be submerged with the rising sea level, whereas for countries in Southern Africa, HIV-AIDS poses a serious threat as one in six adults has the disease (one in three for Botswana, the worst case). In 1994, the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda faced a threat to its existence as nearly five lakh of its people were killed by the rival Hutu tribe in a matter of weeks. This shows that non-traditional conceptions of security, like traditional conceptions of security, vary according to local contexts.