Exam 7: Liberal Perspectives on Todays World: Collective Security, Multilateral Diplomacy, Interdependence, and International Institutions

Which states traditionally select the managing director of the International Monetary Fund and the president of the World Bank?

What are the four main objectives of UN peacekeeping operations? What are the three principal reasons why international interventions fail?

The Oslo Accords are an example of successful international negotiations to bring about peace between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

What are the three Bretton Woods institutions, and what are their primary objectives and means of meeting these objectives?

The Maastricht Treaty is a key agreement in the development of which of the following institutions?

Under the Oslo Accords, Israel agreed to which of the following?

Since the end of the Cold War, interventions for humanitarian purposes have become more frequent and are increasingly multilateral.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are suggested ways to reform the United Nations?

Which of the following institutions is the only one that is directly elected in the EU?

The merger of the European Defense and Political Community, European Atomic Energy Community, and European Economic Community to form the single Commission of the European Communities is an example of ______.

One key success of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was the abandonment of nuclear weapon programs by Pakistan and India in the 1990s.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following statements about the International Criminal Court (ICC) are true?

______ are those institutions above the level of the state, like the European Commission, that are motivated by common, rather than state-specific, goals.

How is the voting power of states in the World Trade Organization apportioned?

The liberal perspective expects that intensified economic and financial interdependence between China and the United States will create too many common benefits that neither country will want to risk these benefits and go to war.

Hugo Grotius and Eméric Vattel are early analysts of which of the following?

The liberal perspective emphasizes the importance of oil supplies over the role of international law in the first Persian Gulf War.

What term describes one method of decentralizing power to accommodate tribal and regional differences?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The fact that Saddam Hussein did not respond to the universal condemnation of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait implies that he was being influenced more by factors at which levels of analysis?

How often are IMF quotas recalculated?