International Relations Final Exam

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International Relations Final Exam 7. How is the idea of universal human rights distinguished from relativism? - ✔✔Universal human rights are the same for all people regardless of nationality or... ethnicity, whereas relativism emphasizes due respect for local traditions and histories. 7. In an effort to provide longer-term support to countries after peacekeeping missions end, the United Nations has __________. - ✔✔created a Peacebuilding Commission to coordinate reconstruction, institution-building, and economic recovery 7. International law depends on __________, collective action, and international norms for enforcement. - ✔✔Reciprocity 7. Only states can be parties to cases before the __________. - ✔✔World Court 7. According to the laws of war, __________. - ✔✔armed forces must respect the neutrality of the Red Cross in its support of civilians and prisoners of war during war 7. When many colonies in Africa and Asia gained independence in the 1950s and 1960s and joined the United Nations, what was the impact on voting? - ✔✔The large numbers of new members meant that the United States found itself in the minority on many issues in the General Assembly. 7. The three sources from which the concept of human rights arises exclude __________. - ✔✔Human Evolution 7. UN involvement in the Darfur region of Sudan and the Democratic Congo in 2018 were the UN's two biggest __________ that year. - ✔✔Peacekeeping missions 7. The UN peacekeeping mission in __________ took over actual control of the government after a long civil war until elections could be held to choose a new government. - ✔✔Cambodia 7. As of 2018, which region of the world has hosted the most UN peacekeeping missions? - ✔✔Africa 7. Which statement explains an advantage to having international cases heard in a national court? - ✔✔Individuals can pursue legal complaints through national courts. 7. Most states voluntarily observe international law most of the time because __________. - ✔✔states' interests are served by the maintenance of an orderly and predictable international environment 7. The IGOs that have been more successful are ones that are __________ in scope with a __________ purpose. - ✔✔regional; specific 7. Despite tens of thousands of civilians being killed by their government in 2011-2018, the Syrian people were not defended by other governments. Had they been, as Libyans were in 2011, it would have been an example of __________. - ✔✔the responsibility to protect 7. What is the great weakness of the World Court? - ✔✔It cannot force states to abide by its decisions. 8. Applying quotas on imports is a policy that would be followed by a __________. - ✔✔Protectionist state 8. A state that avoids trading altogether and instead tries to produce everything it needs by itself is following a strategy of __________. - ✔✔Autarky 8. In 2013, the WTO said Antigua and Barbuda could steal $21 million annually in U.S. intellectual property because the United States blocked the country's online gambling sites. This WTO decision is an example of __________. - ✔✔Retaliation 8. A customs union is created when states __________ members of the group. - ✔✔decide to reduce trade barriers and adopt a common tariff toward states that are not 8. Which statement is true about the capitalist world economy immediately after World War II? - ✔✔The United States provided major assistance to rebuild Western Europe and Japan. 8. A unilateral method of protecting domestic producers from __________ by imposing a limit on the maximum volume of allowable imports is known as a quota. - ✔✔foreign competition 8. The WTO provides an overall framework for __________ trade in a worldwide market. - ✔✔Multilateral 8. Despite a critical shift toward a(n) __________ economy, China's government continues to follow a Marxist political line - ✔✔Market 8. The largest, and most comprehensive, regional free-trade area is in __________. - ✔✔Europe 8. A __________ would agree that a government's most useful role is to interfere in economics only to regulate markets in order to help them function efficiently. That is, politics should serve the interests of economic efficiency. - ✔✔Liberal 8. How does economic liberalism compare with mercantilism? - ✔✔Economic liberalism is not concerned with whether one state gains more or less than another, just whether the state's wealth is increasing in absolute terms, whereas m [Show More]

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