Development
What term describes the process by which a country's economy, society, and institutions evolve towards higher levels of well-being, sustainability, and equality?
Development
What is the UDHR?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
Pooled sovereignty is when different sovereign states give up some of their sovereignty to participate in a larger group.
What is globalization
Globalization is a process by which the world’s local, national and regional economies, societies and cultures are becoming increasingly integrated and connected.
What is realism?
Not interested in questions of morality: war does not need to be justified; states may go to war to pursue their interests.
The UDHR is highly influenced by which theoretical perspective?
Liberalism
What is an IGO?
Organizations in which states cooperate on (a number of) policy issues.
What are the three main types of power?
Hard Power, soft power, smart power
What is Pacifism?
Pacifism: a variety of commitments on a continuum from an absolute adherence to nonviolence in all actions to a more focused or minimal anti-warism. In contrast to the just war tradition, pacifism rejects war as an acceptable means for obtaining peace.
What are collective human rights?
Collective human rights or group rights are rights held by a group rather than its individual members.
What is Westphalian Sovereignty
Named after the Peace of Westphalia (1648) that established the idea of sovereignty in Europe
Types of distribution of power
Unipolar world
Bipolar world
Multipolar world
What term describes a situation where parties in a conflict agree to resolve their disputes through a neutral third party, often a mediator or arbitrator, rather than through direct negotiation or confrontation?
Mediation
What are the five ways to define development?
Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, Social and Political Development, Human Development, Sustainable Development
what is the he UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
coordinates and supports the work on the UN human rights mechanisms, including by distributing useful information and facilitating civil society engagement. The OHCHR also provides assistance to national governments and maintains country offices and regional offices.
What are the internal and external dimensions of sovereignty?
Internal sovereignty allows the state to exercise command over its society. There are no other actors claiming authority within the borders of the state.
From an external perspective, sovereignty the capacity of the state to act independently and autonomously on the world stage.
What is the one china policy
American policy that recognizes mainland China as the Chinese states
Jus ad bellum
Determines the conditions under which states may resort to war or the use of armed force in general
Name one of the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals, which aimed to address various global development challenges by 2015.
What is any one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, or developing a global partnership for development?
what are the UN Human rights treaty.
bodies
Ten committed of independent experts that overseas states implementation of UN core UN human rights treaties
How does humanitarian intervention challenge the principle of state sovereignty, particularly in cases where external actors intervene in the internal affairs of sovereign states?
The sovereignty of a state is violated by External actors because they are taking over control of part of a country violating is sovereignty
Jus in bello
Regulates the conduct of parties engaged in an armed conflict.