Question 1

List the major similarities and differences between the League of Nations and the United Nations. Which of those differences do you believe represent significant improvement?

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Question 2

Of the following-peacemaking, peace enforcement, and peace keeping-which is the most important? Which has the highest financial cost? Why?

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Question 3

Should the United States maintain a military presence in Europe? Why or why not? What is the future of NATO and American participation in this alliance?

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Question 4

What are the major institutional ʺorgansʺ of the United Nations? Which is the most powerful, and why? What powers does the UN have to foster peace in the world? What factors limit its abilities in that regard?

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Question 5

What was the nature of international cooperation during the 1990 -1991 Gulf War? How effective was this cooperation?

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Question 6

What is the difference between functionalism and neo-functionalism? What do they try to explain? How would a realist critique the logic of functionalism and neo -functionalism?

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Question 7

Based on the North Atlantic Treaty and the United Nations Charter, what is the legal or formal relation between NATO and the UN? In practice, how are the two international organizations related in the performance of their tasks?

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Question 8

ʺInternational organizations -whether the UN, NATO, World Bank, WTO, IMF or whatever-are no more than the playgrounds of major powers who use these multilateral institutions to advance their own interests-often at the expense of less-powerful countries.ʺ Defend or refute
this statement.

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Quiz 8: International Cooperation: International Organizations, Alliances, and Coalitions