SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
PRELIMINARY EXAM 2019

MODULE CODE : IR2085

MODULE TITLE : International Organisations

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TIME OF EXAM :

DURATION : Three hours

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES :-

Candidates should answer THREE of the following TWELVE questions. All

questions carry equal marks.

DO NOT TURN OVER THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO
DO SO.

Candidates are strongly advised to divide their time accordingly.

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 1. What has been the role of the United Nations in facilitating the emergence of new
states?

2. What are the main differences between the Covenant of the League of Nations
and the Charter of the United Nations?

3. How effective are external pressures on governments for protecting human rights
within their state frontiers?

4. Is it always necessary to obtain the explicit consent of the Security Council before
undertaking an intervention within a state?

5. 'The ideal of collective security is inconsistent with the essential character of

international society.' Discuss.

6. How does the World Trade Organization help to resolve trade disputes between
its member states?

7. Evaluate the extent to which any regional organisation other than the European
Union has promoted integration between its member states.

8. Does agreement in international organisations merely reflect the lowest common

denominator of the interests of their member states?

9. Does the Security Council need reform?

10. What is so attractive about the EU that so many states have sought to join it?

11. If NATO was established to provide a Western response to Soviet intransigence,

why did it not disappear with the ending of the Cold War?

12. 'The nature of international organisations necessarily reflects the main features of
the international society in which they have emerged'. Discuss with reference
either to the history of international organisations, or to a particular regional
grouping of states.

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