Question 1

What is Security Studies?

a) The analysis of states and state interactions in the international system in

the absence of an overarching authority or power.
b) The analysis of the accumulation of tension in the international system
and of the manifestation of organized political violence.
c) Studying the survival of agents, traditionally meaning the survival of the
state.
d) The analysis of the global interactions and policies referring to military
activity.

Question 2

What does it mean to be secure?

a) Security means the coercive capability to stop an aggressor. Security is

freedom from war, and the ability to deter or defeat aggressive attacks.
b) Security refers to safety from vulnerabilities (both external and internal)
that could harm the state, societies within the state, and the values of those
societies.
c) Security means freedom to enjoy the things that are most important to
human survival and well-being, such as food, healthcare, and the opportunity
to live well.
d) All of the above.
Question 3

Which approach or perspective dominates post-Cold War Security Studies?

a) An examination of the social processes by which groups of people

construct something as a threat.
b) A agenda for peace; peacekeeping, peace-making and conflict
prevention as priorities for avoiding military confrontations.
c) The re-addressing of past practice as a possible cause of insecurity.
d) The strategy for state security that is preoccupied with creating and
maintaining a distribution of power in the system, beneficial in terms of
maintaining security and stability.

Question 4

Which of the following might be considered part of the 'deepening and broadening' of
security?

a) The nexus between identity and security.

b) War, the military, and the sovereign state.
c) Environmental changes.
d) All of the above.
Question 5

How should Security Studies be studied?

a) An examination of the social processes by which people construct a

threat, taking into account the importance of ideational factors such as culture,
beliefs, norms, ideas and identity.
b) Concern about the moral and ethical dimensions of international affairs.
c) The separation of fact and value to generate theoretically grounded
hypotheses, which can then be tested against evidence.
d) None of the above.
Question 6

Traditional approaches seek to explain why and how states have sought security. Which
answer best describes the approach of traditional Security Studies?

a) Traditional theories explain international politics as the distribution of

power among members of an international system, and specifically as the
balance of power amongst major states. The relative power and the constraints
of a state are reflective of the security strategy of that state.
b) The traditional approaches emerged in response to the Cold War, and to
the accumulation of tension and competition between the two Superpowers.
Traditional theories seek to explain behaviour in terms of arms accumulation.
c) Traditional conceptions emerged to explain the clusters of norms and
patterns of behaviour that result in management of conflict and cooperation in
the international system, in specific spheres of activities.
d) Traditional approaches are concerned with sovereignty. Sovereignty is a
legal status; it gives the state control over a specified territory, means it is free
from arbitrary intervention, and is responsible to no higher authority.
Traditional theories examine the patterns of behaviour and relative cooperation
of sovereign states in the international system.
Question 7

Which of the following best describes what is meant by security in the contemporary world,
according to the field of Security Studies?

a) 'A nation is secure to the extent to which it is not in danger of having to

sacrifice core values if it wishes to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to
maintain them by victory in such a war.' Lippman, W.
b) 'Security itself is a relative freedom from war, coupled with a relatively
high expectation that defeat will not be a consequence of any war that should
occur.'
Bellamy, M.
c) 'Emancipation is the freeing of people (as individuals and groups) from
the physical and human constraints which stop them carrying out what they
would freely choose to do . . . Security and emancipation are two sides of the
same coin. Emancipation, not power or order, produces true security.
Emancipation, theoretically, is security.' Booth, K.
d) None of the above

Question 8

How has coercive diplomacy featured in contemporary security studies?

a) Compellence and coercion through diplomacy are linked with the 'pre-
emptive use of force'.
b) Coercive diplomacy is a softly-softly approach to international power
bargaining, that has been side-lined in recent years.
c) Deterrence as a strategy has dominated contemporary instances of
coercive diplomacy.
d) All of the above.
Question 9

Why is HIV/AIDS considered to be a non-traditional security issue?

a) HIV/AIDS is a newly emergent disease that did not exist until relatively
late in the 20th century.
b) Ill health can threaten the state indirectly, but can also be a threat to
other referent objects such as the economy.
c) The overwhelming scale of HIV/AIDS requires a new approach in order to
theorize its impact on security.
d) None of the above - HIV/AIDS is better defined as a traditional security
issue.

Question 10

In what ways is gender applicable to the field of Security Studies?

a) Women and children are dependent on the state for protection and
Security Studies should include them and account for their needs.
b) Biological differences between men and women determine their
suitability for different roles in protecting the state or referent object.
c) Gender is not applicable to Security Studies - to create a 'gender neutral'
security arena we should disregard gender issues.
d) Social constructions of 'masculinity' or 'femininity' determine the roles in
which men and women are expected to act, by considering these artificial roles
we can ask important questions about the ways in which we conceptualize
security.