Chapter 12 Practice Quiz

International Security
. Winston Churchill wrote, "The story of ________ is War."

. "Geopolitics" is the association between ________ and geographical location of a state.

. The underlying assumption of the "security dilemma" is that ________.

. "Anarchy in the UK" was by ________.

. The laws of war that stipulate the acceptable use of force are known as ________.

. Canada removed its military forces from ________ in 2011.

. Al-Qaeda means ________.

. One of the first advocates of humanitarian interventionism was ________.

. The Rwandan genocide was sparked by the assassination of ________.

. Of the 800,000 to 1,000,000 people killed in the Rwandan genocide, ________ per cent were Tutsis.

. The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty was established by ________ in 2000.

. The first official UN peacekeeping mission was in the ________.

. The Canadian navy ships Charlottetown, Iroquois, and Preserver were sent to the Arabian Gulf as part of ________.

. In 2001, the Taliban received diplomatic recognition only from ________.

. R2P stands for ________.

. Libya, North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon have all been accused of ________.

. The 9/11 terrorist attacks took place in ________.

. ________ can be loosely defined as the opposition of incompatible wishes or needs of a person or group of persons.

. "International anarchy" is a condition where there is no ________.

. Human security emerged in the 1990s as an alternative to ________.

. ________ does not have a military.

. Global spending on defence was over ________ in 2017.

. Just war theory stems from teachings of the ________ and Roman philosophy.

. The 2018 ________ reveals a trend toward the deterioration of global peace

. The ________ defines terrorism as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion or intimidation."

. Gwynne Dyer wrote that "war is the continuation of politics by other means."

. Lester B. Pearson initiated the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).

. Carl von Clausewitz felt that war must be seen as a legitimate tool for states to respond to insecurity in the international system.

. The Geneva Conventions govern standards of international law in warfare.

. Studies have shown that the relative instance of war has increased since World War II.

. Operation Desert Storm occurred one decade before Operation Desert Shield.

. The US invaded Iraq in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.

. The US Patriot Act has been criticized for impinging on civil liberties.

. Lester B. Pearson proposed the first real peacekeeping mission in 1956.

. There have been over 60 peacekeeping missions sponsored by the UN since 1948.

. Canada's Joint Task Force 2 was established to resolve the conflict in the Suez Canal region.

. The International Security Assistance Force was a NATO mission before being handed over to the UN in 2003.

. Canada joined the mission in Afghanistan as part of its NATO alliance duties.

. Because of orders coming from the UN, Roméo Dallaire was unable to save anyone from the Rwandan genocide.

. Colin Powell cautioned Americans not to think of war as a video game.

. China, with a defence budget of over US$610 billion, has the highest military expenditure in the world.

. Canada has complied with demands from the United States to boost its defence policy to meet the NATO threshold.

. Research by James A. Piazza has shown no causal relationship between economic development and terrorism.

. According to a variety of sources, including the Anti-Defamation League's Centre on Extremism, hate crimes (including anti-Semitic crimes) have been on the decline in the United States for at least ten years.

. Previously renowned for its peacekeeping contributions, primarily in the UN, Canada's focus shifted to a more forceful projection of its military following the 9/11 attacks.

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