What are the major drawbacks of horizontal enforcement strategies?

What will be an ideal response?

Horizontal enforcement suffers from selective enforcement by states and is often unevenly applied. Even the measures available to states in this horizontal approach are problematic. Diplomatic protests might be significant for small issues, but for major issues involving security, they are likely to be too weak. Using military force to enforce international law is very costly, and most states do not have the capacity for doing so. That means the world depends on the most powerful countries for such actions, and those countries may have other interests at stake that lead them to avoid military intervention in some instances that would appear to warrant it.

Political Science

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A. accumulation of significant debt B. the quality of all one's possessions C. number of houses owned by an individual D. net worth of all of one's possessions

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The Americans who wrote the Constitution generally believed which of the following?

a. Nations are best governed by kings because the common people are incapable of self-government. b. Political leaders receive their power directly from God and are answerable only to God. c. Politics is a never-ending struggle between the people and their government. d. Science is opposed to the laws of God. e. Human progress is not possible.

Political Science