Exam 9: International Law and Human Rights

Public international law covers issues of relations between states; between states and intergovernmental organizations; and between states and nongovernmental organizations.

Which of the following is not a common third-party procedure used in international dispute resolutions.

Humanitarian intervention does not infringe on state sovereignty.

The international system lacks an executive body capable of enforcing legal rules.

A large portion of the world's refugees flee their home countries because of domestic, ethnic, and religious conflict.

After the 2008 cyclone in Myanmar, the international community was unable to help the people of that country under the principle of Responsibility to Protect because

All except which of the following are part of the five categories of human rights?

No principle of international law is more important than the right of self-defense.

The concept of communitarianism in human rights emphasizes humankind rather than national communities.

Define the six conditions of the just war doctrine.Discuss a war in which America was involved that justified all the criteria for a just war.Are there ever conditions under which the United States should not adhere to the just war doctrine? Explain.

Some people would argue that given state sovereignty, intervention in the domestic affairs of another state is never justified.Others argue that with sovereignty comes responsibilities, and when a state violates the rights of its people, it has abdicated its right to sovereignty.When, if ever, is humanitarian intervention justified?

The principle of nonintervention prohibits one state from interfering in another state's internal affairs.

International law recognizes all forms of war as illegal.

All states have the right to sovereign equality and, therefore, have the right to the full respect of other states and equal protection under international law.

Gender empowerment is based on the conviction that only when women are given full rights and equal protection can ,true human development take place.Discuss the ways in which women are marginalized in many societies.Why is it so difficult to change attitudes towards women? Discuss differences in treatment of women in different parts of the world.

Devolution refers to

Which of the following best describes the goal of most indigenous groups?

What fraction of the states has never appeared before the International Court of Justice?

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes international organizations over national political communities.

According to the just war doctrine, a just cause is defined as a state using force