Author Question: Why are efforts to build an international regime to control climate change on a shared objective ... (Read 56 times)

james · **on:** Sep 10, 2018

Why are efforts to build an international regime to control climate change on a shared objective likely to fail?

a. Climate change cannot be controlled by an international regime.
b. International regimes almost never have specific, concrete objectives.
c. It only takes one country not to join, and the entire regime will come apart.
d. The United States will never sign on to anything that restricts its right to emit greenhouse gases.
e. Countries do not share the same assessments of the dangers and opportunities presented by climate change.

Question 2

Why does cooperation with regional security organizations not strike Roberts as a promising solution to the UN's overload problem?

a. These organizations are even more overloaded than the UN.
b. It would add layers of unnecessary bureaucracy to the problem.
c. Regional security organizations are inefficient relative to the UN.
d. They are often less capable than the UN at performing security tasks.
e. These organizations struggle to reach decisions and are often not impartial.