International Security
What is a war between factions within a state trying to create or prevent a new government for the entire state or some territorial part of it?
What is a civil war?
What is devotion to the interests of one's nation over the interests of other states?
What is nationalism?
What are nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons collectively referred to as?
What are weapons of mass destruction?
What is the executive of the United Nations called?
Who is the UN Secretariat?
What is the core international document that was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 concerning human rights called?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
What is a war over control of the entire world order?
What is hegemonic war?
What is systematic extermination of ethnic or religious groups in whole or in part to try to destroy scapegoated groups or political rivals?
What is genocide?
What is the secret World War II science program that created nuclear fission weapons?
What is the Manhattan Project?
What is the term for where larger institutions and groupings to which state authority or national identity is subordinated?
What is supranationalism?
What international agreement successfully protected the ozone layer in 1987 by regulating CFCs?
What is the Montreal Protocol?
What is military actions taken to gain some objective short of surrender and occupation of the enemy?
What is limited war?
What is the tendency to see one's own group in favorable terms and other groups in unfavorable terms?
What is ethnocentrism?
What is the spread of nuclear weapons referred to as?
What is proliferation?
What was the treaty that officially created the European Union in 1992?
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
What is the collective/public goods problem called concerning environmental issues?
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
What is a Truth Commission and can you give an example of one?
Governmental bodies established in several countries after internal war to hear honest testimony about what happened in exchange for offering participants aslyum from punishment
Post-apartheid South Africa
What is irredentism?
What is the goal of regaining territory lost to another state?
What is terrorism?
What are situations in which a nonstate actor uses attacks against civilians by secret uninformed forces operating across international borders as leverage against state actors?
Who are the permanent five members of the UN Security Council?
Who are the United States, France, Britain, China, and Russia?
What is Responsibility to Protect?
What is a principle adopted by state leaders in 2005 holding governments responsible for protecting civilians from genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated within a sovereign state?
Give an example of the three levels of analysis for the war between Israel and Hamas/Palestine
First level: Benjamin Netanyahu
Second level: Hamas being elected over the Palestinian Authority
Third level: Israel's potential new security deal with Saudi Arabia
What agreement has been made on maritime law at the international level?
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
It lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and their resources
What are second strike capabilities and why do they matter?
It leads to mutually assured destruction as both states can destroy one another if attacked
What is the difference between the Council of the European Union and the European Council?
The Council of the European Union is composed of national ministers from each EU country.
The European Council is the body of leaders (heads of state or government) of the 27 EU member states
What are:
Treaties
Customary Law
Legal Scholarship
General Principles of Law