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27 Jan 2026

What is the core functional difference in the mandates of the IMF and the World Bank?

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) primarily focuses on ensuring the stability of the international monetary system by providing short-term financial assistance (liquidity) to help members address balance-of-payments difficulties. The World Bank Group's core mandate, primarily through the IBRD and IDA, is to promote long-term economic development and poverty reduction, typically through project financing.

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26 Jan 2026

Which major economic policy was central to Margaret Thatcher’s government (1979-1990) in the United Kingdom?

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The central pillar of 'Thatcherism' was a shift from a post-war consensus of state-managed capitalism to a free-market-oriented economy. This included the widespread privatization of major state-owned industries and utilities (like British Telecom, British Gas, and British Airways) to increase efficiency and competition. The policy also included monetarism to control inflation and significant legal curbs on trade union power.

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24 Jan 2026

Which Gorbachev policy allowed for increased public expression and transparency in the USSR?

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Glasnost (meaning "openness") was the policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s that aimed to increase government transparency, loosen state censorship, and permit greater freedom of expression and public criticism in the Soviet Union. This is distinct from Perestroika, which focused on economic and political restructuring.

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22 Jan 2026

Where is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), headquartered?

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, is permanently seated at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the only principal organ of the UN not located in New York City.

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21 Jan 2026

Which feature is the primary mechanism for maintaining the separation of powers in a presidential system?

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A presidential system is characterized by a strict separation of the executive and legislative branches (Separation of Powers). The 'system of checks and balances' is the primary mechanism designed to prevent any one branch from acquiring excessive power by allowing each branch to limit or scrutinize the others' actions, thereby maintaining the functional separation. Options A and D are characteristics typically found in a Parliamentary System, where there is a fusion of the executive and legislative branches. Option B is also a feature of some Parliamentary or Semi-Presidential systems, not a Presidential one.

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20 Jan 2026

Which US President, a Nobel Peace laureate, was the only one to hold a Ph.D. degree?

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Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President, is the only US President to have earned a Ph.D., which was in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University. He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his role in founding the League of Nations.

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16 Jan 2026

Which U.S. President is the only one to have served two non-consecutive terms?

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Grover Cleveland is the only U.S. President to have served two non-consecutive terms, first as the 22nd President (1885–1889) and later as the 24th President (1893–1897).

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16 Jan 2026

What core international principle is most fundamentally challenged by the UN Security Council’s P5 veto power?

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The permanent members (P5) veto power fundamentally challenges the principle of 'sovereign equality of all member states' enshrined in Article 2 (1) of the UN Charter. The veto grants five states a unique and unequal legal status, allowing them to unilaterally block action supported by the vast majority of members, thus creating an oligarchical decision-making structure for global peace and security.

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21 Dec 2025

Who is considered the principal architect of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)?

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Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, is widely regarded as the principal philosophical and conceptual architect of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). He, along with Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Sukarno (Indonesia), and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), are collectively considered the five founding fathers of the movement.

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12 Dec 2025

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) under Nelson Mandela prioritized which principle over conventional criminal justice?

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by President Nelson Mandela, was a unique model of transitional justice. It was a court-like restorative justice body that prioritized national unity and reconciliation by offering conditional amnesty (full disclosure of politically motivated crimes) to perpetrators, rather than pursuing conventional retributive criminal justice, in order to uncover the truth and facilitate a peaceful transition.

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