What are the major drawbacks of horizontal enforcement strategies?

What will be an ideal response?


Horizontal enforcement suffers from selective enforcement by states and is often unevenly applied. Even the measures available to states in this horizontal approach are problematic. Diplomatic protests might be significant for small issues, but for major issues involving security, they are likely to be too weak. Using military force to enforce international law is very costly, and most states do not have the capacity for doing so. That means the world depends on the most powerful countries for such actions, and those countries may have other interests at stake that lead them to avoid military intervention in some instances that would appear to warrant it.

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What will be an ideal response?

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A. judicial review. B. excessive partisanship. C. judicial restraint. D. judicial activism. E. adherence to precedent.

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