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Chapter 10 Self-test questions
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Chapter 10 Self-test questions
Human Security
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Which of the following was
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stated as an objective of the Commission on Human Security when it was launched?
To promote public understanding, engagement, and support of human security and its underlying imperatives.
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To develop the concept of human security as an operational tool for policy formulation and implementation.
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To propose a concrete programme of action to address critical and pervasive threats to human security.
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To develop a new international justice system to enhance human security.
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Which crime is
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Genocide.
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Trafficking.
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Crimes against humanity.
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War crimes.
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Which tradition is
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International law.
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Critical theory.
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Liberal multilateralism.
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Neorealism.
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Which of the following is a common criticism of the human security concept?
Human security is neo-colonial.
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Human security promotes global capitalism.
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Human security is too broad.
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All of the above.
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Which of these statements characterizes the traditional concept of national security, as opposed to human security?
All of the above.
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In the national security approach, real threats are only those posed to human life, human rights, or human dignity.
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The traditional interpretations of security and threats are important boundaries that define human security.
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The concept of national security is too narrow to be useful when analysing the broad threats that currently exist.
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What are the seven focus areas of the UNDP Human Development Report?
National, military, economic, energy, environmental, individual, and political security.
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Economic, health, food, environmental, community, personal, and political security.
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Food, water, health, personal, gender, climate, and economic security.
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The Human Development Report only focused on individual security.
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In which year was the seminal Human Development Report published?
1987
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1997
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1994
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2004
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Which of the following ideas have become mainstreamed within human security since the Human Development Report?
Limiting security analysis to military engagement is too restrictive.
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Security is a contestable concept.
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Focusing security only on violent conflicts is too restrictive.
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All of the above.
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What does 'death by economics rather than by politics' (Bellamy and McDonald, 2002) allude to?
It alludes to the destruction caused by neoliberal economic policy in the global South.
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It refers to death from the direct result of poverty.
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It alludes to how economic and political causes of suffering are often inseparable.
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It refers to suffering that is not directly cause by inter-state war.
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Why was the end of the Cold War important to the development of Human Security as we know it?
It led to enthusiasm about a more democratic and prosperous world.
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Traditional theories were contested.
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Several atrocities led scholars and politicians to look for new ways to react.
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All of the above.
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