Chapter 6

Question 1

Peace-enforcement activities

Answer 1

UN actions intended to compel countries by force or threat of force to follow the terms of UN resolutions

Question 2

Peacekeeping activities

Answer 2

UN actions devoted to monitoring ceasefires and separating combatants in third world conflicts

Question 3

Oslo accords

Answer 3

A series of agreements reached in 1993 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel that Israeli troops would withdraw from Gaza and areas of the West Bank and the PLK and Israel would recognize one another

Question 4

Intifada

Answer 4

An uprising of Palestinians in territories occupied by Israel

Question 5

United Nations

Answer 5

The principle general-purpose intergovernmental organization that deals with collective security economic and social development and international law and human rights

Question 6

Federalism

Answer 6

A method of decentralized power to accommodate tribal and regional differences

Question 7

Elite manipulation

Answer 7

Leaders exploitation of people’s fears to wage ethnic conflicts for the leaders own personal and groups interests

Question 8

Post conflicts reconstruction

Answer 8

Activities aimed at resetting displaced populations and rebuilding areas ravaged by ethnic conflict

Question 9

Responsibility to protect

Answer 9

The idea that sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their own citizens from avoidable catastrophe and if they cannot or will now the international community met bear that responsibility

Question 10

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Answer 10

A 1968 treaty that seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and materials while fostering the civilian development of nuclear power

Question 11

Chemical weapons convention (CWC)

Answer 11

International agreement made in 1993 to ban the production and use of chemical weapons

Question 12

Biological weapons convention (BWC)

Answer 12

International agreement made in 1972 to ban the production and use of biological weapons

Question 13

Treaty on conventional forces in Europe (CFE)

Answer 13

Treaty signed in 1990 reducing and establishing a roughly equal balance of major conventional weapons systems and troop strength in Europe

Question 14

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Answer 14

International agreement reached in 1996 to stop the testing of nuclear weapons both above and below ground

Question 15

Transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs)

Answer 15

International commercial or not for profit advocacy organizations typically independent of and not founded by governments

Question 16

International court of Justice (IJC)

Answer 16

The UNs main judicial institution to arbitrate disputes among nations

Question 17

International criminal court ICC

Answer 17

A permanent tribunal started in 2002 to prosecute war crimes

Question 18

Universal jurisdiction

Answer 18

The claim of a single state that it can prosecute perpetrators of war crimes anywhere in the world

Question 19

IFM quota

Answer 19

The share of money that each country provides to the International Monetary Fund for lending which determines snore voting power

Question 20

Regional organizations

Answer 20

Organizations whose members come from and are limited to specific geographic regions of the world

Question 21

Supranational institutions

Answer 21

Institutions above the level of the state like the European Commission that are motivated by common rather than state specific goals

Question 22

European Union

Answer 22

A supranational organization that in 1993 superseded the European Communities and now united European democracies in specific policy areas

Question 23

Mutual recognition

Answer 23

A way of reconciling different regulatory standards across nations by requiring that product standards accepted in one country be recognized by all participants

Question 24

European commissions

Answer 24

The organ of the EU that has the exclusive authority to initiate legislation and pursue the goals of an ever closer Union

Question 25

Council or the EU

Answer 25

The assembly that brings together the member states of the EU

Question 26

European council

Answer 26

Summit meetings of the council of the EU involving head states and gov that deal with crows cutting and controversial issues

Question 27

Qualified majority voting (QMV)

Answer 27

The principle that decisions by international organizations are made by weighted majority votes as in the EU today

Question 28

European Parliament

Answer 28

The only directly elected institution in the EU

Question 29

Democratic deficit

Answer 29

The criticism mad of the European Union that it is not directly accountable to the people it represents

Question 30

European court of Justice (ECJ)

Answer 30

The judicial body that had he power to interpret and enforce EU treaties and law

Question 31

Individual sanding

Answer 31

The right of civilians as well as states to bring cases before a court uncommon in international law until recently

Question 32

European Central Bank

ECB

Answer 32

The banking institution whose governing council controls the money supply and sets short term interest rates for the EU

Question 33

European constitution

Answer 33

A 2004 European Union document not yet ratified that significantly increased the extent of European unity

Question 34

Lisbon treaty

Answer 34

A 2009 treaty that implements many of the provisions of the unratified European constitution by intergovernmental agreement