Week 7

Question 1

War

Answer 1

Organized violence between two or more political entities

Question 2

Five main sectors security

Answer 2

1. Military
2. Political
3. Economic
4. Societal
5. Environmental

Question 3

Security organizations

Answer 3

• NATO
• CSTO
• Organization for security and Co-operation Europe
• UNSC
• African Union (security council)

Question 4

Issues OSCE

Answer 4

Arms control, terrorism, good governance, energy security, human trafficking, democratization, media freedom and national minorities

Question 5

The OSCE aim and purpose

Answer 5

• Works to build and sustain stability, peace and democracy for more than one billion people, through political dialogue and projects on the ground.

Question 6

Peacebuilding

Answer 6

Almost any international assistance effort that addresses any perceived or real grievance can arguably be called “peacebuilding.

Question 7

Three pillars R2P

Answer 7

• 1: The primary responsibility of the state to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, etc.
• 2: The international community’s responsibility to assist and encourage states to fulfil their responsibility to protect.
• 3: The international community’s responsibility to take timely and decisive action to protect populations from the four crimes through peaceful means.

Question 8

EU’s three peacebuilding mechanisms

Answer 8

1. Conditionality
2. Learning
3. Passive enforcement

Question 9

Realism

Answer 9

Permanent peace was unlikely to be achieved. All that states could do was to try to balance the power of other states to prevent any one from achieving overall hegemony

Question 10

Key objectives CSDP

Answer 10

• Enhance EU’s ability to intervene in global security crises.
• Pool military and civilian capabilities among Member States.
• Promote institutional development for crisis management.

Question 11

Challenges of CSDP

Answer 11

• Capabilities gap
• Political will
• Institutional complexity