Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

Choose the correct option with respect to traditional notion of security

A. In traditional notion of security, most threats to a country's security come from outside its border.
B. In responding to the threat of war, a government has the only choice to surrender.
C. Military action endangers the lives of both civilians and combatants.
D. Men and women are made targets to break their support of war.
E. In world politics there is a central authority that regulates all countries.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Options:

B, C, D Only

B, D, E Only

A, C, D Only

A, B, E Only

Correct Answer:

A, C, D Only

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 : A, C, D Only

Given statements:

A. In traditional notion of security, most threats to a country's security come from outside its border. (Correct)
B. In responding to the threat of war, a government has the only choice to surrender. (Incorrect)
C. Military action endangers the lives of both civilians and combatants. (Correct)
D. Men and women are made targets to break their support of war. (Correct)
E. In world politics there is a central authority that regulates all countries. (Incorrect)

Correction in the incorrect statements:

B. In responding to the threat of war, a government has the only choice to surrender.

In responding to the threat of war, a government has three basic choices: to surrender; to prevent the other side from attacking by promising to raise the costs of war to an unacceptable level; and to defend itself when war actually breaks out so as to deny the attacking country its objectives and to turn back or defeat the attacking forces altogether. Governments may choose to surrender when actually confronted by war, but they will not advertise this as the policy of the country. Therefore, security policy is concerned with preventing war, which is called deterrence, and with limiting or ending war, which is called defence.

E. In world politics there is a central authority that regulates all countries.

In the traditional view of security, then, most threats to a country’s security come from outside its borders. That is because the international system is a rather brutal arena in which there is no central authority capable of controlling behaviour. Within a country, the threat of violence is regulated by an acknowledged central authority — the government. In world politics, there is no acknowledged central authority that stands above everyone else.