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Internationalism

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Internationalism

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  1. Five states hold a veto on the UN Security Council because

    1. a) the victorious powers of 1945 would not have joined an organization that could act against them
    2. b) they contribute the most money
    3. c) the General Assembly elected them permanently
    4. d) they are the most populous states

  2. Sovereignty means that a state

    1. a) controls its neighbours' policies
    2. b) has a single national identity
    3. c) belongs to the United Nations
    4. d) has supreme authority over its own territory and affairs

  3. The United Nations was created in

    1. a) 1939, at the start of the Second World War
    2. b) 1950, during the Korean War
    3. c) 1945, after the Second World War
    4. d) 1919, after the First World War

  4. A country that signs an international climate agreement gives up some sovereignty because it

    1. a) loses its seat at the United Nations
    2. b) hands its territory to another state
    3. c) accepts limits on its own domestic policy in exchange for others doing the same
    4. d) gives up control of its military

  5. The UN organ with primary responsibility for international peace and security is the

    1. a) General Assembly
    2. b) Secretariat
    3. c) Security Council
    4. d) International Court of Justice

  6. Canada's historic reputation for peacekeeping dates largely from

    1. a) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis
    2. b) the Korean War
    3. c) Canada's role in the Second World War
    4. d) the founding of NATO in 1949

  7. An argument that foreign aid serves the national interest of the donor is that

    1. a) aid always increases the donor's territory
    2. b) aid is required by international law
    3. c) stable, prosperous partners make better trading partners and produce fewer crises
    4. d) aid guarantees votes at the United Nations

  8. Of these, the supranational organization is

    1. a) the Canadian federal government
    2. b) the Alberta legislature
    3. c) a national political party
    4. d) the European Union

  9. The Responsibility to Protect holds that

    1. a) states may never intervene in another state
    2. b) the UN must approve every war
    3. c) every state must accept refugees
    4. d) sovereignty carries a duty to protect one's population, and the world may act if a state fails

  10. The strongest nationalist objection to a supranational body such as the EU is that

    1. a) it prevents states from having their own flags
    2. b) it has too few members
    3. c) decisions affecting citizens are made by institutions they did not elect and cannot easily remove
    4. d) it increases trade between members

Answer key · Internationalism

Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. a) the victorious powers of 1945 would not have joined an organization that could act against them — The veto was the price of participation, and it was designed with the League's collapse in mind. It also means the Council is paralysed exactly when a permanent member is involved.
  2. d) has supreme authority over its own territory and affairs — Every act of internationalism involves giving up a little of it — accepting a trade ruling, a treaty obligation, a peacekeeping mandate. That trade-off is what makes internationalism contested.
  3. c) 1945, after the Second World War — The Charter was signed in San Francisco in June 1945. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, was the 1919 attempt, and its failure shaped the UN's design.
  4. c) accepts limits on its own domestic policy in exchange for others doing the same — Every binding agreement narrows future choices. The internationalist argument is that the collective gain is worth it; the nationalist objection is that the constraint is real and the benefit uncertain.
  5. c) Security Council — Only the Security Council can authorise binding action, including sanctions and the use of force. The General Assembly represents every member state but its resolutions are recommendations.
  6. a) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis — Pearson proposed a UN Emergency Force to separate the combatants, and it won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Peacekeeping was essentially invented in that crisis and became central to how Canada saw itself.
  7. c) stable, prosperous partners make better trading partners and produce fewer crises — Aid is defended both on humanitarian grounds and on self-interested ones, and a good answer in this course recognises that motives are usually mixed rather than picking one.
  8. d) the European Union — A supranational body exercises authority above the level of the member states, so its decisions can bind them. The EU's law, courts and single currency go well beyond an ordinary treaty.
  9. d) sovereignty carries a duty to protect one's population, and the world may act if a state fails — Adopted by the UN in 2005, R2P reframes sovereignty as responsibility rather than immunity. Applying it consistently has proved far harder than agreeing to it.
  10. c) decisions affecting citizens are made by institutions they did not elect and cannot easily remove — This is the democratic deficit argument, and it is about accountability rather than economics. The internationalist reply is that the problems being solved cross borders, so the institutions must too.