Body of rules governing the relations of nation-states.
What is International Law?
100
a 1919 Assembly and an executive Council, but was crippled from the start by the absence of the US and the Soviet Union for most of its life and remained a basically European organization
What is the League of Nations?
100
A way of approaching international law by viewing states as sovereign independent entities acting out in their own selfish interests at the expense of the benefits of social bonds.
What is Natural Law Theory?
100
An interdisciplinary approach that seeks to incorporate interest based approaches of the states as well as the norms which states are willing to embody and comply with.
What is the International Relations Theory?
100
Guerrilla fighters in Muslim countries especially those who are Islamic fundamentalists
What is the mujahideen?
200
Body of law consisting of rules and principles of general application dealing with the conduct of states and of intentional organizations and with their relations inter se, as well as with some of their relations with persons, whether natural or judicial
What is the Restatement Section 101's definition of International Law?
200
An organization whose primary purpose was to prevent military conflict among its members and to settle international disputes and succeeded the League of Nations after it's failure.
What is the United Nations?
200
The theory that international law is a sum of rules by which states have expressly consented to be bound to and where states are willing to relinquish some rights in order to preserve relations with other states.
What is positivism?
200
A theory that assumes that people prefer cheaper goods and services as well as more efficient means of achieving their nonconsumption goals.
What is a price theory approach of International Law?
200
American Occupation of the Arabian Peninsula, American Blockade against Iraq, and American support of the Jewish State of Israel.
What are Bin Laden's three fatwas (islamic legal pronouncements) against the United States which fueled the 9/11 attacks?
300
This Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, by applying treaties, customs, and international conventions
What is The International Court of Justice?
300
This organization was created to promote international monetary cooperation and stability in foreign exchange
What is the International Monetary Fund?
300
Where a French Steamboat and a Turkish steamboat collided in the high seas and upon the French steamboat's arrival in Turkey, a criminal trial began to proceed without French consent to the jurisdiction.
What is the Case of the S.S. Lotus?
300
This approach argues that international law needs to be expanded to include women's rights and interests in order to properly approach international law. This approach differs from others as it believes that international law does not need to be rewritten but rather only expanded.
What is a Feminist Liberal Inclusion Approach to International Law?
300
An International organization's response which both condemned the terrorist attacks, reaffirmed the United States' right of self-defense and encouraged member states to implement domestic legislation to fight terrorism.
What are the U.N. Security Council Resolutions (1368 and 1373) following September 11 attacks?
400
This body of law primarily governs the activities of governments in relation to other governments while the other primarily deals with the activities of individuals, corporations, and other private entities when they grossed national boarders
What is the difference between public and private international law?
400
This organization was established to provide funds for the reconstruction of war-ravaged nations and to promote economic development
What is the World Bank?
400
Determinancy, Symbolic validation, coherence and adherence.
What are the 4 indicators of rule legitimacy between states?
400
This approach sees the simple inclusion of women in international law as impossible and that it must be changed in order to accommodate women.
What is the Feminist Structural Bias Critique to International Law?
400
A U.N. agreement which set up an interim Afghan administration under the leadership of Hamid Karzai and sent over a great deal of U.N. aid programs to Afghanistan.
What is the Bonn Compromise?
500
A rule of international law is one that has been accepted as such by the international community of states
In the form of customary law;
By international agreement; or
By deprivation from general principles common to the major legal systems of the world
What is The Restatement Section 102 definition of an International Law Rule?
500
This organization began in 1995 and is based on a one-country, one-vote system that requires unanimity on important matters. It is a dispute resolution system which is possibly the most influential international dispute settlement arrangement in the world.
What is the World Trade Organization?
500
An agreement between the U.S. and the USSR established in 1972 which prohibited the development of space based systems for territorial defense?
What is the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty?
500
A body of rules and practices which reflect and embody the struggles and aspirations of developing nations and it's peoples to promote truly global justice.
What is TWAIL (Third World Approach to International Law)?
500
U.S. officials referred to detainees as "these" in order to circumvent the treaties of the Geneva Conventions and the rights and conditions extended to war time detainees