Deck 13: International Ethics

Question 1

Ethics is the descriptive study of what actors have done, rather than the evaluative study of what they should do.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The responsibility to protect is an example of a negative duty.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Communitarians argue that morality is derived from the values of particular communities and is therefore necessarily particular, not universal.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Rawls argues for distributive justice in the global economy.

Question 5

The acceptance of cosmopolitan ideals has advanced more or less in tandem with processes of globalization.

Question 6

Which of the following schools of thought is Pogge situated within?

A) Individualism
B) Communitarianism
C) Generalism
D) Liberal cosmopolitanism

Question 7

Who argues that states have a duty to their own people first, and that ignoring this in the name of some Kantian ideal would be a dereliction of that duty?

A) Morgenthau
B) Miller
C) Walzer
D) Pogge

Question 8

Whose book Just and Unjust Wars (1977) is largely responsible for the revival of just war thinking in modern times?

A) Linklater
B) Kissinger
C) Walzer
D) Beitz

Question 9

The duty of mutual aid is one element of:

A) Rawls's 'law of peoples'.
B) Universalism.
C) Realism.
D) Critical theory.

Question 10

Walzer argues that freedom of movement is a basic right and that immigration restrictions amount to a violation of that right, while Carens argues that the right to exclude is primary to the survival and independence of political communities.

Question 11

Which of these is not a component of jus ad bellum?

A) Right intention.
B) Restoration of peace.
C) Multilateral authority.
D) Reasonable hope of success.

Question 12

According to the just war tradition, which of the following can legitimately wage war?

A) States.
B) Individuals.
C) Corporations.
D) States or individuals.

Question 13

__________ explores the tension surrounding non-combatant losses that are unintended but foreseeable.

A) Non-combatant immunity.
B) The law of double effect.
C) Proportionality of means and ends.
D) Right intention.

Question 14

Jus in bello includes debates over which of the following?

A) Proportionality of means.
B) The law of double effect.
C) Non-combatant immunity.
D) All of the given answers are correct.

Question 15

'Area' bombing:

A) Is an example of the debate of jus in bello ethics, especially the principles of double effect and non-combatant immunity.
B) Was only done by the Axis powers.
C) Is sometimes justified using consequentialist logic.
D) Is an example of the debate of jus in bello ethics, especially the principles of double effect and non-combatant immunity and is sometimes justified using consequentialist logic.