A. Loud emergencies are those that become significant in international public opinion, silent emergencies are those that are a crisis of domestic politics
B. Loud emergencies happen in the developed world, and threaten to kill thousands, silent emergencies are smaller crises of violence within the developing world
C. Loud emergencies concern safety and security, silent emergencies are characterized with economic crises
D. Loud emergencies are the humanitarian crises that receive media attentions, like genocide, ethnic cleansing and famine. Silent emergencies do not get media attention, like slow death from malnutrition and poverty
Related Mcqs:
- What are the objections to legitimizing humanitarian interventions?
A. Legitimizing it would open intervention to abuse
B. States do not intervene for primarily humanitarian reasons
C. States apply principles of humanitarian intervention selectively
D. All of the above - What would warrant a ‘just cause’ military intervention for human protection purposes?
A. There must be serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or imminently likely to occur
B. There must be a large scale loss of life, which is the product of deliberate state action, or state neglect, or inability to act, or a failed state situation
C. There must be a large scale ethnic cleansing
D. All of the above - When does humanitarian intervention secure its greatest legitimization?
A. When it is done to prevent a genocide
B. When it is done to take down a murderous
C. When it is done to alleviate famine
D. When it is done through the Chapter VII enforcement provision of the Security Council - What is non-forcible humanitarian intervention?
A. It is characterized by the series of peaceful actions of states, INGOs and international organization in the international scene which prove to have an impact in internal matters of the target state
B. It is an intervention by UN peace-keeping forces
C. It is a humanitarian intervention that was not required
D. None of the above - What is meant by rule-consequentialism?
A. International order and hence general well-being is better served by a general consensus for humanitarian intervention than by prohibiting humanitarian intervention in the absence of agreement of what principles should govern a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention
B. International order and hence general well-being is better served by a general prohibition against humanitarian intervention than by sanctioning humanitarian intervention in the absence of agreement of what principles should govern a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention
C. International organizations and hence general well-being are better served by a general acceptance of humanitarian intervention than by sanctioning humanitarian intervention in the absence of agreement of what principles should govern a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention
D. None of the above - What is R. J. Vincent’s definition of intervention?
A. ‘Activity undertaken by a state, a group within a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state. It is a discrete event having a beginning and an end and it is aimed at the authority structure of the target state;
B. ‘A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries’
C. ‘Activity undertaken by a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state’
D. ‘Threat or use of force by a state, group of states, or international organization primarily for the purpose of protecting the nationals of the target state from widespread violations of human rights - What is meant by ‘solidarist international society’
A. International society in which states show solidarity to their regional interests
B. International society in which states assign more than 1% of their GDP to foreign aid and possible humanitarian interventions
C. International society in which states agree on universal standards of justice and morality
D. International society that counts on a repaid deployment international force in case a humanitarian interventions is required - Define ‘forcible humanitarian intervention’.
A. The use of force to intervene in humanitarian operations
B. A forcible breach of sovereignty that interferes in a state’s internal affairs for humanitarian purposes
C. A humanitarian intervention that uses force to deter violence
D. All of the above - What is meant by ‘pluralist international society’
A. International society which allows for different values to coexist
B. International society in which states are aware of sharing common values, but these are limited to norms of sovereignty and non-intervention
C. International society in which states can choose among several international institutions to join
D. None of the above - What characteristic do globalization and terrorism share in common?
A. Both are a current phenomenon
B. both are a recently new phenomenon
C. Both are complex and open to subjective interpretation
D. Both are causes of major transactions of funds internationally
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