Some political issues are imagined.

Cultural explanations of different levels of economic development have difficulty explaining:

a. why China has been so successful in recent times, despite low levels of generalized trust there. b. why countries with low levels of generalized trust can have high levels of economic development. c. why different levels of generalized trust might be found in nations with otherwise similar cultural backgrounds. d. sudden changes in a nation's economic performance.

Which of the following is an example of competing interpretations of sovereignty that have arisen in the domain of law?

a. The trials of former German war criminals b. The 1998 detention of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain c. Chinese crackdowns on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square d. The formation of NATO e. The failure of the United Nations to intervene during the humanitarian disaster in Rwanda