Chapter 31 Flashcards
01) According to Kofi Annan, there is not yet any ‘developing international norm’ to forcibly protect civilians at risk from genocide and large-scale killing.
a. True
b. False
b. False
02) Vietnam intervened in Cambodia in 1978 specifically to put an end to the ‘killing fields’.
a. True
b. False
b. False
03) Counter-restrictionists argue that the prohibition of the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter renders forcible humanitarian intervention illegal.
a. True
b. False
b. False
04) The US-led intervention in Kosovo in 1999 was actually a NATO campaign and not sanctioned by the Security Council.
a. True
b. False
a. True
05) French president François Mitterand was fearful that an RPF victory in French-speaking Rwanda would result in the country coming under the influence of Anglophones.
a. True
b. False
a. True
06) Restrictionist international lawyers insist that the common good is best preserved by___.
a. international law
b. military force
c. maintaining a ban of any use of force not authorized by the UN Security Council.
d. international law enforced by UN peacekeepers.
c. maintaining a ban of any use of force not authorized by the UN Security Council.
07) Those who argue that there is a legal right of unilateral and collective humanitarian intervention in the society of states are known as:
a. solidarists.
b. restrictionists.
c. interventionists.
d. counter-restrictionists.
d. counter-restrictionists.
08) Realism tells us that humanitarian intervention is ruled out because states only pursue:
a. terrorists.
b. their national interest.
c. hegemony.
d. viable resources.
b. their national interest.
09) The doctrine of “responsibility to protect”:
a. Was adopted by the UN General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit.
b. Is an outdated concept.
c. Represents a strong new norm for humanitarian intervention in every circumstance.
d. Emerged from a precedent of Cold War intervention.
a. Was adopted by the UN General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit
10) The theory which focuses on the question of how states reach consensus on the moral principles underpinning intervention, and which objects to the intervention in the absence of consensus is called what?
a. Realism
b. Neo-liberalism
c. Solidarism
d. Pluralism
d. Pluralism
11) When political power interests are disguised as humanitarianism, this leads to:
a. forcible humanitarian intervention.
b. abuse.
c. murderous states.
d. failed states.
b. abuse
12) Counter-restrictionists argue:
a. Against any legal right of humanitarian intervention.
b. For a unilateral justification of intervention that disregards international restrictions.
c. For a legal right of humanitarian intervention based on interpretations of the UN Charter and customary international law.
d. For a universal common obligation to protect individuals from harm.
c. For a legal right of humanitarian intervention based on interpretations of the UN Charter and customary international law.
13) Which intervention is cited here as the classic example of abuse?
a. Hitler’s argument that it was necessary to invade Czechoslovakia to protect the ‘life and liberty’ of that country’s German population.
b. IUS, British, French, and Dutch intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan (1991)
c. US intervention in Somalia (1992)
d. NATO intervention in Kosovo (1999)
a. Hitler’s argument that it was necessary to invade Czechoslovakia to protect the ‘life and liberty’ of that country’s German population.
14) Who were the only three members of the Security Council to support the resolution condemning NATO intervention in Kosovo?
a. Russia, India, and Nigeria.
b. Russia, China, and Namibia.
c. China, Namibia, and France.
d. Russia, China, and France.
b. Russia, China, and Namibia.
15) Which of these is NOT a principle for military intervention under the Responsibility to Protect?
a. The just cause threshold.
b. Precautionary Principles.
c. Domestic political support.c. Domestic political support.
d. Right authority.
c. Domestic political support.
