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The UN
Climate Change and Health
Regional Institutions
Nuclear Proliferation
Potpouri
100
This was originally written by the US and maintains that all states shall refrain from the threat of or use of force in international relations.
What is Article 2(4)
100
This is the climate change process whereby land becomes arid and agriculture becomes difficult.
What is desertification?
100
This was NATOs main organizational rival during the cold war.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
This class of weapon is intended to deter the enemy from using nuclear weapons
What are strategic nuclear weapons?
100
They comprise the 'P5'
Who are Russia, China, France, the US and UK?
200
The UN Charter was written here.
What is San Francisco?
200
This disease has discouraged the deployment of peacekeepers in particular parts of the world.
What is HIV/AIDS
200
This was the organization that stood behind the US when it confronted Russia in the UN Security Council during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
What is Organization of American States (OAS)
200
This is the easiest weapons design often first attempted by developing nuclear powers.
What is a gun-type design?
200
This is the number of states that comprise the UN at the beginning of the 21st century.
What is 193?
300
This endows the UN Security Council with 'coercive powers'
What is Chapter VII
300
This is a threshold that once crossed makes mitigating environmental damage increasingly difficult.
What is a tipping point
300
NATO, SEATO, and CENTO are describes as these types of regional institutions
What is a security institution
300
This is the constellation of bombers, missiles, and submarines that form the foundation of the US deterrent.
What is the triad?
300
The process whereby the General Assembly can overcome a UNSC ruling for action.
What is 'Uniting for Peace'
400
This UN organ is charged social, cultural, education, health and human rights.
What is ECOSOC
400
This is the variety of life in a particular ecosystem.
What is biodiversity
400
This organization is in charge of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
What is NATO
400
This treaty seeks to limit nuclear proliferation but offers help with peaceful nuclear power
What is non-proliferation treaty (NPT)?
400
This UN body employs more than 30,000 people working as international public servants.
What is the UN Secretariat?
500
This is the court that seeks to arbitrate disputes between countries
What is International Court of Justice (ICJ)
500
This is a widespread disease outbreak that can threaten the function of a government
What is a pandemic
500
These have been classified as 'core threats' by regional institutions after the end of the cold war
What are Terrorism and WMD
500
He created the Pakistani network that credited with the creation of its nuclear bomb.
Who is AQ Kahn?
500
Headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria, this is an organization dedicated to economic growth in West Africa.
What is ECOWAS