Practice Questions on Part III, The International Arena

1. Which would be the best legal authority for NATO military intervention?

Customary international law
 1997 Founding Act, NATO and Russia
 The U.N. Charter, Chapter VII, Article 51
 The U.N. Charter Article 2(4)
2. Which Presidential adviser would have the most direct command responsibility for any military action Clinton initiated?
National Security Adviser Berger
 Secretary of Defense Cohen
 Secretary of State Albright
3. Which institution would afford Boris Yeltsin the greatest opportunity to check NATO?
U.N. Security Council
 Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe
 Balkans Contact Group
4. Which case illustrates the Security Council’s inability to act?
Uniting for Peace Resolution to continue UN multilateral action in Korea
 Resolution authorizing a collective response when Iraq invaded Kuwait
 Resolution approving Operation Restore Hope in Somalia
5. The Rambouillet talks were less successful than the Dayton mediation because
NATO foreign ministers were divided
 The KLA demanded independence
 Milosevic refused to negotiate
6. Milosevic apparently feared that
KFOR would stop ethnic cleansing
 The KLA would acquire sovereignty in Kosovo
 NATO bombing would destroy Serbia
7. Why did President Clinton declare that he would not send U.S. ground troops into Kosovo?
Respect for the U.N. Charter
 Deference to the U.S. Constitution
 Concern that Serb forces were superior
 Concern about domestic opposition to casualties
8. What explanation for his response to Kosovo would Clinton find most objectionable?
prevent wider war in the Balkans destabilizing U.S. allies
 rally U.S. public opinion to support the Commander in Chief
 prevent Serb atrocities against Albanian Muslims in Kosovo
 maintain NATO credibility
9. Which office would be most supportive of Yugoslavia’s sovereignty?
President of Russia
 Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
 U.N. Secretary General

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