The first two Secretaries General of the UN were ________
a. bland bureaucrats who focused on organizational development
b. strong personalities who focused on fulfilling the UN's peacekeeping role
c. academics who merely used the UN as a debating society
d. merely posturing as world leaders
e. focused on management, efficiency, and ethics
B
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The United Nations Security Council approves of armed intervention in a failing state that is unable to ensure that its citizens stay safe from harm. This is an example of what?
A) Crimes against humanity B) International civil society C) Populist revolution D) Responsibility to protect E) Restorative justice
Explain the differences between common law and civil law, and then discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.
What will be an ideal response?
How are national and state party organizations interrelated?
A. They are part of a hierarchical structure, with the national convention at the top, the national organizations in the middle, and the state organizations at the bottom. B. They are independent of each other except for the fact that they are all expected to follow the party rules set at the national convention every four years. C. National organizations are in charge of overseeing state organizations and enforcing party rules at all levels of the party. D. They are independent except for ties in terms of ideologies, campaign money, and party rules.
Which of the following describes checks and balances as defined by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention?
a. Giving each of three branches of government the power to restrict the actions of the others b. A system that regulates funds transferred between the state and central governments c. A means of counting the slave population for the purposes of representation d. The means by which small states receive similar power to large states