Chapter 2: International Law Flashcards
What is State Sovereignty?
Every nation of the world has complete control over its territory, its people, and its choice of government, subject to the rules of international law
What does Pacta Sunt Servanda?
The customary international legal rule requiring each nation to keep international promises undertaken through treaties
What is a Bi-lateral treaty?
A treaty between two nations
What is a multilateral treaty?
A treaty among several states
What is extradition?
The surrender by one state, at the request of another, of a person accused or convicted of a crime violating the requesting states domestic laws
What is Jus Cogens?
A peremptory norm of law so basic to humans survival and dignity that it can never legally be breached
What is Diplomatic immunity?
Special rights or privileges that protect foreign diplomatic representatives from physical harm or civil and criminal proceedings under the law of the host nation
What is the League of Nations?
An international organization that used law to promote co-operation and remove disputes between countries
What is the United Nations?
One of the main international organizations and actors in international law, UN charter
What is Sovereign Equality of States?
Member states agree to relinquish the same powers of the United Nations and to recognize the jurisprudence of the United Nations within the limits of these powers
What is the Fulfillment of Obligations in Good Faith?
The requirement of good faith can impose a positive obligation in the formation, performance and extinction of the contract
What is International Negotiation?
An international dispute resolution method in which diplomatic representatives or heads of state of the disputing states negotiate to reach a settlement
What is International Mediation?
An international dispute resolution method in which an impartial mediator acts as a go - between to reach peaceful settlement between two parties
What is International Conciliation?
An international dispute resolution method in which a commission hears the disputes collects information, and tries to bring the parties to an agreement
What is International arbitration?
An international dispute resolution method in which both parties refer their dispute to an arbitrator who decides the case as would a judge
What is International Adjudication?
Method in which facts are weighed in a case to arrive at a decision, principle branch is the international court of judgement
What is Collective Security?
The uniting of individual states against an aggressor state in order to maintain international peace and security
What is a Reprisal?
The use of force in response to another states prior legal action
What is Self-Determination?
The formation of a people into an independent nation
What is International Peacekeeping?
An operation involving military personal, usually undertaken by the United Nations help maintain or restore peace and security in areas of conflict
What are War Crimes?
Violations of the laws or customs of war (e.g. slave labor, ill-treatment of prisoners of war)
What are Crimes against humanity?
Inhumane acts (such as murder, extermination, torture, and enslavement) committed against a civilian population before or during war or prosecution for political racial, or religious reasons
What are crimes against peace?
Planning or conspiring to wage a war of aggression or war in violation of international treaties
What is terrorism?
The unlawful use or threat of violence against persons or property to further political or social objectives
