Exam 18: International Organizations: Globalization and the Quest for Order

What are the major problems confronting international organizations such as the United Nations? Can these obstacles be overcome? How?

What is the term for the condition in which national economies become inextricably entwined in the global economy, as political and business elites design strategies for continued growth and prosperity around access to foreign markets, labor, and capital?

Which of the following countries have sought to exempt themselves from any form of climate change agreement?

Which year had the most UN peacekeeping fatalities?

The Seabed Treaty of 1971 prohibits farming of the ocean floors outside the 12 mile limit.

Which bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia reduced the risk of diversion or theft of weapons-grade uranium recovered from dismantled nuclear warheads?

Military alliances were the first major form of intergovernmental organization to grow out of the modern state system.

The Montreal Protocol was designed to combat global warming.

What is Europe's equivalent of a cap and trade system to set limits on air pollution?

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the failure of the League of Nations?

The growth of multinational corporations has been limited in recent years.

NAFTA presides over the world's largest single economy.

Why has the United Nations NOT completely succeeded?

The argument that gradual transfers of economic and social functions to international cooperative agencies will eventually lead to a transfer of actual authority and integration of political activities on the international level is called functionalism.

The United Nations was founded in response to the start of the Cold War.

Which state does NOT have a seat at the United Nations Security Council?

Which of the following is considered an unconventional nonstate actor?

What is the first principle of international political life?

UN Peacekeeping Operations have a reputation for being costly, and the same results could be achieved for less money by countries such as the United States.

During the 1990s the United Nations has conducted peacekeeping efforts in Cambodia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, East Timor, the Congo, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.