1. What is humanitarian intervention? What counts as intervention and what does not?
2. Are there any international legal justifications for intervention? Any international legal rules against it?
3. How do liberals argue in favor of humanitarian intervention? How do realists argue against it?
4. What are the four factors we look to in order to determine if states will intervene in humanitarian crises?
5. What are the two main goals of the United Nations? Does it do a good job meeting these goals?
6. Why does the UN do better than the League of Nations did? Why does it still run into difficulty?
7. How is the United Nations set up? (pay attention specifically to the Security Council)
8. What is nuclear proliferation? Why do we get shifts in US nuclear policy?
9. What is Mutually Assured Destruction? How does it work?
10. Describe what the following groups think about proliferation: extreme optimists, moderate optimists, pessimists. What is the major point of contention between the optimists?
11. Why does terrorism occur? What are its general goals?
12. What are the major differences between terrorism and suicide terrorism? Why do groups resort to suicide terrorism?
13. What impact has 9/11 had on terrorism?
14. What is so tragic about the tragedy of the commons?
15. What factors make states more likely to join onto international environmental treaties?
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