Exam 22: International Institutions and the Search for Peace

The Secretariat is the legislative arm of the UN.

During the post-World War II period, many African countries remained tied to and dependent upon European colonial nations.

The most powerful organ of the United Nations, responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, is the:

In imposing sanctions, the UN is limited because:

Nation-states began to develop in the late Middle Ages.

In 1979, Egypt and Israel agreed to a peace treaty, and Israel withdrew from:

The United Nations officially sanctioned war against Iraq.

Submission to an international court's justice is involuntary.

Thucydides' Trap indicates that China will come to peace with the U.S. as it rises to power.

Resolution 242, passed in 1967 by the UN General Assembly, called for the return of land and property taken by Israel during the wars.

War making in humans is believed to depend on:

As the Jewish population in the Middle East increased, the Zionist population decreased.

The UN is a superstate with authority over sovereign states.

The UN Charter does not list the use of armed forces as a coercive measure.

Yasser Arafat's successor party was:

In light of the U.S.'s difficulties in controlling the events in Iraq, which two nations have seized this opportunity to stand against U.S. demands?

In Africa, governments have generally been:

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were much less expensive to conduct than originally predicted.

In the late 1980s, changes in the former Soviet Union and China made agreement in the Security Council less likely.

The UN military sanction in its peacekeeping efforts is supposed to be the: