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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17 UNDER
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2024

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PART-I (MCQs)(COMPULSORY)

1. Economic spill-over from one sector to other sectors is explained by:

(A) Robert D. Gilpin (B) Ernst B. Haas (C) Robert D. Kaplan (D) None of these

2. Proposal for joint defence between Pakistan and India was given by:
(A) Chou En-Lai (B) Jawaharlal Nehru (C) Ayub Khan (D) None of these

3. Who is author of the book “When China Rules the World”?
(A) Graham Allison (B) Martin Jacques (C) Thomas Friedman (D) Fareed Zakariya

4. The Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty was signed between India and Bangladesh in:
(A) 1992 (B) 1989 (C) 1982 (D) 1996

5. The Munich Agreement was signed among Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain in September
1938 permitted German annexation of territories of:

(A) Poland (B) Hungary (C) Czechoslovakia (D) Alsace-Lorrain

6. Author of “The Origin of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution” is:

(A) Samuel P. Huntington (B) Francis Fukuyama (C) Kenneth Waltz (D) Jessica Tuchman Mathews

7. The Concert of Europe was founded in:
(A) 1882 (B) 1815 (C) 1648 (D) 1789

8. The Six-Day War was fought between Israel and Arab states in:
(A) 1956 (B) 1982 (C) 1967 (D) 1973

9. The book “On China” is written by:
(A) Sun Tzu (B) Xi Jinping (C) Robert D. Kaplan (D) Henry Kissinger

10. Who coined the phrase “Global Village”?
(A) George Marshall (B) John Locke (C) Marshall McLuhan (D) John Foster Dulles

11. Robert S. McNamara is famous for:
(A) The Suez Canal Crisis (B) The Vietnam War (C) The Iran-Iraq War (D) The American war on Terror

12. Who proposed the “Heartland Theory”?
(A) Halford John Mackinder (B) Alfred T. Mahan (C) Christopher Columbus (D) Nicholas J. Spykman

13. According to Machiavelli, the two essential means for conduct of foreign policy are:
(A) Lion and Wolf (B) Cheetah and Fox (C) Lion and Fox (D) Leopard and Wolf

14. _____ proposed a fourteen-point program under his vision of making the world ‘safe for democracy.’
(A) Francis Fukuyama (B) Barack Obama (C) Woodrow Wilson (D) Winston Churchill

15. Sociological liberalism argued by______ emphasizes the impact of expanding cross-border activities.
(A) Robert Keohane (B) Karl Deutsch (C) Joseph Nye (D) Michael Doyle

16. ______proposed a ‘cobweb model’ of transnational relationships:
(A) John Burton (B) Joseph Nye (C) Immanuel Kant (D) Oran Young

17. The statement that ‘Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation
with the moral laws that govern the universe’ has been given by:
(A) Thomas Hobbes (B) E. H. Carr (C) Morgenthau (D) Kenneth Waltz

18. The statement that ‘There can be no other conceivable basis under capitalism for the division of
spheres of influence…. than a calculation of the strength of the participation in the division, their
general economic, financial, military strength, etc.’ was given by:
(A) Karl Marx (B) Friedrich Angles (C) Joseph Stalin (D) Lenin

19. ‘The social world including international relations is a human construction’ is the key idea argued by: (A) Liberalism (B) Constructivism (C) IPE (D) Feminism

20. The book ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ written by:
(A) Thomas L. Friedman (B) Adam Smith (C) John Maynard Keynes (D) None of these

PART-II

Q. No. 2. With the evolving situation in Afghanistan, how does China engage with Pakistan
to ensure stability in the region, and what are the shared strategic interests and
potential divergences between the two countries in the context of postwithdrawal Afghanistan?
(20)

Q. No. 3. Under President Putin, Russian foreign policy has experienced a revival. Russia is
back on the world stage and projecting its power through economic and less
politico-military means. Comment.
(20)
Q. No. 4. Recent relationship between the US and China seems to be prey to Thucydides’s
trap. Can America and China escape it? Analyze it keeping in view the recent
trends in international politics.
(20)

Q. No. 5. Graham Allison has devised different models for making choices in foreign policy
decisions. Compare and contrast the Rational Actor Model and the Bureaucratic
Politics Model to illustrate foreign policy decisions. Which model better explains
Pakistan’s decision in 2015 to decline Saudi Arabia’s call for armed support in the
Yemen war?(20)

Q. No. 6. Compare and contrast Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ and Huntington’s ‘Clash of
Civilization’ in the backdrop of the interpretation of the post-Cold War era. Which
interpretation seems more attractive in explaining international politics in the
post-Cold War era?(20)

Q. No. 7. With the Abraham Accords between Israel and some Arab states, how has the
October 2023 Israel-Gaza war impacted the broader dynamics of the Arab-Israeli
conflict particularly prospects for the two-state solution?
(20)
Q. No. 8. Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed neighbours. The normalization of the
bilateral relationship between them has not become possible despite several
peace initiatives like the Simla Accord and the Composite Dialogue. Is sustained
peace possible between them?

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