Humanitarian intervention

Acts of humanitarian intervention may impinge on state sovereignty.

• True

• False

It is acceptable for countries to engage in humanitarian intervention for reasons for self interest.

• True

• False

George H W Bush believed that countries would co-operate more on human rights issues following the end of the Cold War because ...

• The spread of democracy meant more countries shared common values.

• Russia and the USA would work together to solve global problems.

• It was now agreed in both the east and the west that economic and social rights were equally important.

Which of the following was NOT true of the First Gulf War?

• There was a UN mandate for the war.

• France and Russia sent troops to Kuwait.

• The war was limited in scope to the removal of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

• The Kuwaitis requested international assistance.

Answer explanation

The French did support the first Gulf War (but not the second one). Russia did not send troops to the First Gulf War, although it gave its backing to the Security Council resolution authorising the use of 'all necessary force' to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

In 1992, the US sent 28,000 troops to which country to try to prevent a famine?

The then UN secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali complained that the 1994 peacekeeping mission in which country was dommed because there was 'no peace to keep'?

Which of the following was NOT true of the 1995 NATO mission in Bosnia?

• Not all NATO members supported the mission.

• The mission did not involve protecting a NATO member state.

• It was the first time NATO and the UN had worked together.

• It was not focused on deterring Russian aggression.

By what agreement did NATO commit to: deploying 60, 000 troops with a mandate to disarm rival military factions, help rebuild the country and restore trust between different ethnic and religious groups?

Who said 'acts of genocide can never be a purely internal matter'.

True or false: the Clinton Doctrine required the US to lay aside its self interest?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

In formulating what became known as the Clinton Doctrine, Bill Clinton stated that the US should be prepared to act where mass human rights violations were taking place both because this was morally right and because a world governed by this principle was in the best interests of the US.