EXAM TEST - Sovereignty, International Intervention and Human Rights
POLS 435
Discuss one of the following statements (in 2000 characters):
Economical globalization works in favor of the respect of human rights – pro and contra
No country shall intervene in the internal issues of other country even if the latter country is a gross
violator of human rights
Every country is obliged to react against genocide even without proper permission of Security Council
of United Nations.
1. Intervention, as a use of force by one country in the internal or external affairs of another:
a. is always considered to be an unlawful conduct
b. may be authorized by the Security Council of United Nations only in the event when
international piece is threatened
c. may be performed only after a declaration of war towards the intervened country
d. may be always performed by a permanent member of Security Council of United Nations 2.
Sovereignty may be defined as:
a. the legal order
b. the armed forces of a state
c. the supreme power by which any independent state is governed d. a divine will
3. The idea of Sovereignty evolved from:
a. the East-West opposition during the Cold war
b. the opposition between Eastern Orthodox patriarchs and the Constantinople Emperor
c. the opposition between Western kings and the Catholic clergy in XI-XVI century
4. The “negative” human rights are those:
a. which require action from the state to be introduced
b. which oblige inaction from all other legal subjects
c. defined in the international human rights declarations or conventions as “social” rights
d. empowering the state to exercise coercion
POLS 435
Discuss one of the following statements (in 2000 characters):
Economical globalization works in favor of the respect of human rights – pro and contra
No country shall intervene in the internal issues of other country even if the latter country is a gross
violator of human rights
Every country is obliged to react against genocide even without proper permission of Security Council
of United Nations.
1. Intervention, as a use of force by one country in the internal or external affairs of another:
a. is always considered to be an unlawful conduct
b. may be authorized by the Security Council of United Nations only in the event when
international piece is threatened
c. may be performed only after a declaration of war towards the intervened country
d. may be always performed by a permanent member of Security Council of United Nations 2.
Sovereignty may be defined as:
a. the legal order
b. the armed forces of a state
c. the supreme power by which any independent state is governed d. a divine will
3. The idea of Sovereignty evolved from:
a. the East-West opposition during the Cold war
b. the opposition between Eastern Orthodox patriarchs and the Constantinople Emperor
c. the opposition between Western kings and the Catholic clergy in XI-XVI century
4. The “negative” human rights are those:
a. which require action from the state to be introduced
b. which oblige inaction from all other legal subjects
c. defined in the international human rights declarations or conventions as “social” rights
d. empowering the state to exercise coercion
