Deck 22: International Institutions and the Search for Peace

Question 1

All of the following countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council except:

A) the United Kingdom.
B) Germany.
C) Russia.
D) the United States.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In imposing sanctions, the UN is limited because:

A) member states retain their sovereignty.
B) the UN is a superstate.
C) the power of the world is not concentrated in a few states.
D) it can force states to accept its decisions in all cases.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The United States withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) in 1984 because the organization was:

A) too much in favor of free markets and individual human rights.
B) too expensive.
C) over-funded.
D) hostile toward the institutions of a free society.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The founder of modern international law was:

A) Hugo Grotius.
B) William Penn.
C) Immanuel Kant.
D) Voltaire.

Question 5

All of the following are coercive measures that the UN can take against the state that is to blame for a threat to peace, breach of peace, or act of aggression, except:

A) severance of diplomatic relations.
B) the complete or partial interruption of economic relations with the dissident state.
C) terrorism.
D) the use of armed forces.

Question 6

What is international law? How effective is international law? What are the limitations of it?

Question 7

Throughout the history of the nation-state, diplomacy has:

A) proven useless when compared with war.
B) never been tried to prevent wars.
C) done much to avoid war.
D) never helped even once to avoid a war.

Question 8

On the international level, reasonable discussion is called:

A) negotiation.
B) verbal discretion.
C) diplomacy.
D) a pacifistic address.

Question 9

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) has supervisory power over:

A) all of the world's nuclear weapons.
B) every nation using nuclear energy.
C) all physics projects.
D) the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT).

Question 10

The most powerful organ of the United Nations, responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, is the:

A) General Assembly.
B) Secretariat.
C) Security Council.
D) World Health Organization.

Question 11

The first comprehensive approach to the problem of war by a group of states was the:

A) Organization of American States.
B) League of Nations.
C) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
D) Warsaw Pact.

Question 12

Yasser Arafat's successor party was:

A) Zionist.
B) Al Qaeda.
C) Fatah.
D) the Israeli Defense League.

Question 13

The UN military sanction in its peacekeeping efforts is supposed to be the:

A) first option.
B) second plan if diplomacy fails.
C) final recourse.
D) threat that is never used.

Question 14

What are the major trouble spots of the world today? What threatens stability in these areas?

Question 15

Middle Eastern politics are complicated by:

A) the United States not supporting Israel.
B) Iran's stance on women's rights.
C) China's sanctions against Iran.
D) internal tensions among different sects of Islam.

Question 16

The usefulness of international law in the maintenance of order and peace has always been:

A) enormous during wars.
B) greatly overestimated in times of peace.
C) very strong in punishing violators.
D) limited.

Question 17

The practice of having treaties registered and published by the UN Secretariat is designed to:

A) create a historical archive.
B) justify the existence of the Secretariat.
C) reduce the chances of secret agreements existing.
D) make the reasons for war more obvious.

Question 18

What is the outlook for peace in the future? How does the war on global terrorism affect international institutions? Is war really inevitable?

Question 19

What are the causes of war? How have people and nation-states attempted to maintain peace?

Question 20

What is the role of the United Nations in international relations? How is the UN organized? How successful has the UN been in keeping the peace? What are the limitations on the UN's ability to maintain peace?

Question 21

Thucydides' Trap indicates that China will come to peace with the U.S. as it rises to power.

Question 22

The United Nations officially sanctioned war against Iraq.

Question 23

The power vacuum created by the breakup of the Soviet Union improves the conditions for peace.

Question 24

In Africa, governments have generally been:

A) democracies.
B) monarchies.
C) dictatorships.
D) autocracies.

Question 25

The nineteenth century military strategist who argued that "war is merely a continuation of politics by other means" was:

A) Otto von Bismarck.
B) Carl von Clausewitz.
C) Napoleon.
D) Frederick the Great.

Question 26

There is no international system of criminal law.

Question 27

In light of the U.S.'s difficulties in controlling the events in Iraq, which two nations have seized this opportunity to stand against U.S. demands?

A) Iran and North Korea.
B) Israel and Palestine.
C) Canada and Mexico.
D) China and Japan.

Question 28

Identifying forces that tend to bring about war is easier than explaining or evaluating them.

Question 29

The UN Security Council is composed of twenty-five nations.

Question 30

The system of international law rules on the rights and duties of states in their mutual relations.

Question 31

In 1979, Egypt and Israel agreed to a peace treaty, and Israel withdrew from:

A) all of the Golan.
B) the West Bank.
C) the Sinai Peninsula.
D) the Jordan Valley.

Question 32

Nation-states began to develop in the late Middle Ages.

Question 33

The breakup of the Soviet Union has been marked by:

A) political instability in some nations.
B) smooth economic transitions.
C) greater security for all nations.
D) less danger of war.

Question 34

Submission to an international court's justice is involuntary.

Question 35

The Secretariat is the legislative arm of the UN.

Question 36

The most important organs of the United Nations are the Security Council, the General Assembly, and the Secretariat.

Question 37

In the early 2000s, North Korea:

A) still remained a trouble spot.
B) was of little concern to the U.S.
C) was eliminated by the reunification of Korea.
D) was pacified.

Question 38

In the late 1980s, changes in the former Soviet Union and China made agreement in the Security Council less likely.

Question 39

War making in humans is believed to depend on:

A) acquired attitudes, beliefs, and points of view.
B) inherent nature.
C) anger and other primary emotions.
D) monetary resources.

Question 40

In recent history, many states have discovered the high costs of having a bad reputation due to violations of international law.

Question 41

Nigeria is ruled by Robert Mugabe.

Question 42

After September 11, 2001, President Bush followed a policy in which the United States would attack terrorists wherever they are before they commit terrorist acts. This is a policy of:

A) the United Nations.
B) defeatism.
C) appeasement.
D) preemption.

Question 43

As the Jewish population in the Middle East increased, the Zionist population decreased.

Question 44

The UN Charter does not list the use of armed forces as a coercive measure.

Question 45

In 2003, the United States and other Western countries established a Roadmap to Peace, which required both Palestinians and Israelis to move simultaneously toward peace.

Question 46

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were much less expensive to conduct than originally predicted.

Question 47

Resolution 242, passed in 1967 by the UN General Assembly, called for the return of land and property taken by Israel during the wars.

Question 48

During the post-World War II period, many African countries remained tied to and dependent upon European colonial nations.

Question 49

The Trump administration has been much more accepting of settlements and has thrown its support behind Israel in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Question 50

The UN is a superstate with authority over sovereign states.

Question 51

China has been increasing its international military presence in recent years.

Question 52

The war on terrorism has more of a geographic component than did previous wars.

Question 53

The absence of the Soviet delegate helped make the role of the UN-led military action possible in Korea from 1950 to 1953.