Question 1

The freedom act has done more than to stop the drift in US policy. It has invigorated US policy and produced a level of effort on Cuba that is almost unprecedented. This makes it the most sustained US policy in three decades. What were the objectives of freedom act?

Options :

A : To halt the drift in Cuban policies

B : To stimulate global isolation of the Castro regime

C : To prepare the US for the inevitable transition

D : To stimulate a cold war

E : To prevent hunger and poverty

Answer: B,C

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT true about reprisal?

Options :

A : It consists of coercive action that was prima facie illegal, but which was considered justified if it responded to an initial illegal act.

B : It involved in the nineteenth century as an alternative measure of coercion short of war.

C : It involved the appropriation of property belonging to the other state or its national.

D : The seizure of foreign territory or citizens to constitute a permissible form of reprisals.

E : International law required that it should be neither disproportionate nor excessive.

Answer: B

Question 3

Which of the following is/are the role of HM Treasury (Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation)?

Options :

A : Enforces breaches of trade sanctions.

B : UK’s competent authority for implementing financial sanctions.

C : Investigates breaches of financial sanctions.

D : Makes designations under UK domestic regimes.

E : Can impose monetary penalties.

Answer: A,B,D

Question 4

What a threat the US posed to foreign companies conducting business with Cuba in breach of the US embargo?

Options :

A : To give primacy to the symbolic objective

B : To Limit opposition to sanctions

C : To shift the domestic political arena

D : To impose secondary sanctions

E : To promote democratization

Answer: D

Question 5

Which of the following events are included in the sanctions in ancient and medieval times?

Options :

A : On 3 October 1935 Italian forces invaded Abyssinian territory.

B : In 1567 Portugal confiscated English property within its jurisdiction, in response to a raid that had been led by an English national, George Fenner, against Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands.

C : In 1807, US President Thomas Jefferson implemented a civil embargo preventing US vessels from leaving US waters.

D : By the end of the nineteenth century, states commonly employed a number of coercive strategies short of war in their foreign relations.

E : Popes and church councils passed decrees prohibiting Christian nations from selling to the Saracens any arms, ships, lumber for ship construction, or other goods useful in warfare.

Answer: A,B