Exam 7: Human Rights and Human Security

What are some potential risks associated with the invocation of R2P?

What are the two basic components of the "liberal position on rights"?

Should interventions always be conducted by a multinational contingent? Why or why not?

What is meant by the "standards of civilization"? What was the phrase's historical origin?

The idea that humans have an essential nature that dictates that certain kinds of human goods are always and everywhere desired is called

What is the term for a separation of the world into civilized and uncivilized?

The international community rarely acts on human rights cases unless _______ is engaged.

What were the stated reasons for the Soviet bloc countries not signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

What does the "universal human rights regime" refer to?

What is common security?

Outline the feminist critique of human rights.

Why do states intervene in some humanitarian crises and not others?

What is humanitarian intervention?

What do you see as the future of human rights law?

Are human rights Western or universal?

What state objected to the universalism of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

The concept of humanitarian intervention was endorsed by the report of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change called

Rights written into a constitution are called _______ rights.

What is the gist of the "responsibility to protect" doctrine?

Realist scholars often assert that states reject humanitarian intervention because states only pursue