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Subject- Political Science Class-12th

Chapter- Security in the Contemporary World
(Short Questions/Long Question/Objective Type Questions/Practice Set
Questions)
Q1. Which of the following is a source of insecurity?
(a) Human Rights
(b) Balance of Power
(c) Global Poverty
(d) Alliance Building

Q2. Which of the following is a component of traditional security?

(a) Alliance building
(b) Preventing war
(c) Balance of power
(d) All of these

Q3. How many States acceded to Chemical Weapons Conventions?

(a) 102
(b) 155
(c) 192
(d) 181

Q4. In which security, force is both the principal threat to security and the principal means of
achieving security?
(a) Non-traditional
(b) Traditional
(c) Not a threat
(d) Balance of power

Q5. Write one international convention passed by the United Nations to eliminate terrorism.

Q6. In which year Global Security has emerged?

Q7. Write one component of Traditional Security Policy.

Q8. What is the basis of Alliance?

Q9. Give one example of Arms Control.

Q10. When Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed?

Q11. Write components of India’s Security Strategy.

Q12. What is Security? Explain the traditional concept of security.

Q13. Suggest anyone effective step which would limit war or violence between countries.

Q14. Highlight any two threats to a country’s security as per the traditional notion of security.
Q15. What is meant by Human Security?

Q16. What is meant by Global Security? 

Q17. What is meant by non-traditional notions of security?

Q18. How is the balance of power a component of traditional security?

Q19. How do per capita income and population growth affect the economic disparity in the world?
Suggest two ways to reduce economic disparity between the poor and the rich at the global level.

Q20. What is meant by alliance-building as a component of traditional Security Policy? What are its
advantages?

Q21. Describe terrorism as a new source of threat to security.

Q22. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
All proponents of human security agree that its primary goal is the protection of individuals.
However, there are differences in precisely what threats individuals should be protected from the
Proponents of the ‘narrow’ concept of human security focus on violent threats to individuals.
(i) Which type of security is the main concern of ‘human security’?

(ii) What would you like to include under the ‘broad’ concept of human security? Explain.

(iii) Identify any four threats from which individuals should be protected.

Q23. Analyse all the broad components of the security strategy of India.

Q24. What is meant by the non-traditional notion of security? Differentiate between the narrow and
the broad concept of human security.

Q25. Describe the security challenges faced by the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa
after the Second World War. How is it different from first world countries?( US, USSR, European
Countries)

Q26. What is meant by cooperative security? How can this be made more effective?
Or
Explain the need for cooperative security as a necessity in dealing with possible contemporary
threats to the nations and suggest the methods to achieve it.

Q27. Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) are:

(A ) Giving up certain weapons.

(B) A coalition of nations meant to detect or defend against military attacks.

(C) A process of exchanging information on defence matter between nations on a regular basis.

(D) Regulates the acquisition or development of weapons.

Q28. Which one of the following is not a new source of threat?

1. Terrorism
2. Human Rights
3. Development of Weapons
4. Global Poverty