International Organization, Law, and Human Rights Subcategories

International Organization, Law, and Human Rights

Enforcement of World Court decisions is carried out by the:

A. UN Peacekeeping Forces
B. UN armed Forces
C. UN Security Council
D. None of these answers is correct; the Court has no real means of enforcing its decisions

The status of embassies and of an ambassador as an official state representative is explicitly defined in the process of:

A. diplomatic representation
B. diplomatic community
C. diplomatic recognition
D. diplomatic acceptance

How do peacebuilding operations differ from traditional form of peacekeeping?

A. They will not take on the mission of running the government in case of collapse
B. They do not get involved in the local politics of the troubled area
C. They entail the use of force rather than relying on the consent of all parties
D. They reject the acceptance of infrastructure development

Authority for UN peacekeeping missions is granted by:

A. the Security Council
B. the secretary-general
C. the ECOSOC
D. the Trusteeship Council

To which legally binding judgements are Council of Europe members subject?

A. None because they are sovereign states
B. Those of the International Criminal Court
C. Those of the European Court of Human Rights but it is ineffective
D. Those of the effective European Court of Human Rights

What are the three levels of institutions in modern international society?

A. States, NGO’s, IGO’s
B. Constitutional institutions, fundamental institutions, and regimes
C. Local, national and international
D. None of above

What is legal positivism?

A. The idea that legal rules have legitimacy when from their logical and practical derivation form a fundamental ‘grundnorm’
B. The idea that natural law is no different than positive law, and that they are interdependent
C. The idea that authority of legal rules comes from their status as the commands of a sovereign authority
D. a and c

When can we date transnational NGOs back to?

A. The end of World War Two following the Holocaust
B. The nineteenth century and anti-slavery campaigners
C. The civil rights movement under Dr Martin Luther King
D. None of these options given is correct

Actions that would have been illegal under international law that may be legal if taken in response to the illegal actions of another state are:

A. escalations
B. reprisals
C. retaliations
D. extra-legal responses

What is the origin of natural law thinking?

A. Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, and John Locke
B. The Magna Carta
C. Greek, Christian and medieval Catholic theology
D. Confucianism