Certified Global Sanctions Specialist CGSS Study Guide PDF

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1. When requesting information from you, OFSI will not specify which of the following:

The legislative basis for the request

The time period within which the information is to be provided to us

The manner in which the information should be provided

The importance of the request

The dispute surrounding the request

2. Economic sanctions are typically conceived of as foreign policy tools aimed at influencing another nation, they are a type of coercive diplomacy.

What is coercive diplomacy generally defined as?

Forceful persuasion

Public announcement

An effort to use some sort of coercion to stop another nation's actions

Decision made by voting

An effort to amend a certain law

3. Why threatening to change the exchange pattern in an existing economic relationship is often insufficient to guarantee the power of negotiation between states?

It may impact the raw material needed for manufacturing products.

The sender can derive political leverage from the target's dependence on the gains from a trading relationship

The sender must be willing to sacrifice some of its gains from trade

It will domestically impact the sender economy

If an exchange is taking place between two rational economic actors, then the terms of exchange can be assumed to be Pareto optimal

4. Which of the following replaced the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in late 1999?

United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR)

United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)

International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC)

United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)

5. Which acts were born of a sense of frustration and necessity in Congress?

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

National Banking Act of 1963

Helms-Burton Act of 1996

CDA of 1992

Militia Act of 1991

6. What does UNICEF stand for?

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

World Health Organization

Social, Cultural and Humanitarian

Pakistan National Assembly

Formun

7. All of the following are functions of the HM Treasury (Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation) except?

UK’s competent authority for implementing financial sanctions

Makes designations under UK domestic regimes

Can impose monetary penalties

Negotiates all international sanctions

8. Which of the following is/are not OFSI’s approach to ‘extraordinary expenses’ licensing ground:

This must be an expense of the designated person and it must be extraordinary in nature (so no recurring or easily anticipated)

It cannot be used where other grounds are more suitable or as a way of avoiding the clear limitations of those other grounds

This must not be an expense of the designated person and it must be extraordinary in nature (so no recurring or easily anticipated)

It can be used where other grounds are more suitable or as a way of avoiding the clear limitations of those other grounds

9. Which of the following are the type of offenders are in boot camps?

Young, nonviolent, and drug possession inmates

Boot camps are only for juveniles, there are no adult boot camps

Only violent offenders who failed in other programs

Mostly hardened criminals who have failed everywhere else in the system

All of the above

10. Which of the following highlights how the Act is different from Rule 11 as amended in 1993?

The Act changes the procedure for imposing Rule 11 sanctions and it makes sanctions mandatory, removing any discretion from the district courts

The Act presumes that the opposing party’s attorneys’ fees will be the sanction, rejecting the focus on deterrence reflected in Rule 11

The Act does not change the procedure for imposing Rule 11 sanctions and it makes sanctions mandatory, removing any discretion from the district courts

The Act does not presume that the opposing party’s attorneys’ fees will be the sanction, rejecting the focus on deterrence reflected in Rule 11

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11. According to the assessment of Humanitarian vulnerability, the following are often more vulnerable, may be discriminated against and have lower incomes except?

Refugees

The poor

Disadvantaged ethnic groups

The elderly

The disabled

12. There has been considerable debate on who, and what agencies, should undertake assessments of the humanitarian implications of sanctions, especially when the sanctions are imposed by which of the following?

National Humanitarian Organization

International Labour Organization

World Health Organization

The United Nations

All of the above

13. Where the financial sanction is an asset freeze, it doesn’t involve which of the following:

There is no change in ownership of the frozen funds or economic resources

The frozen funds or economic resources are confiscated or transferred to OFSI for safekeeping

There is a change in ownership of the frozen funds or economic resources

The frozen funds or economic resources are not confiscated or transferred to OFSI for safekeeping

14. Which exogenous events sporadically derailed the changes in general of punishing Cuba?

Democratic presidential nomination

Capture by Iranian-backed terrorists of US hostages

Burglar arrest at the Democratic National Committee office

Cuban air force shooting down US aircraft

Competition over Florida's electoral votes in the 1992 presidential election

15. What happened when the Council applied its first sanctions regime, against the illegal white minority regime in Southern Rhodesia?

The council neglected both Articles 39 and 41.

The council made a determination of the type envisaged by both Article 39 and 41.

The Council has discontinued acknowledging Article 39.

The Council has tended not to invoke both Articles 39 and 41.

It expressly invoked both Articles 39 and 41 of the Council as the basis for its action.

16. Where is OFAC located?

India

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Washington DC

Iraq

United Kingdom

17. In Resolution 661 (1990), the Council requested all States to avoid:

Availability of any funds or other cash flow assets to the Iraqi Government, any commercial or public service undertaking in Iraq or Kuwait, or to persons or bodies within Iraq or Kuwait.

Importation of all goods and services originating in Malaysia.

Exports of goods and services to Iraq.

Activities intended to promote the export of some goods or services from Iraq.

Exports of goods and services to Malaysia.

18. How the offending party can withdraw or correct defective filings?

The safe harbor provision offers the offending party an opportunity to withdraw or correct defective filings

By appealing to the court

By correlating the response, in hours and funds expended, to the merit of the claims

Through mitigating factor resulting in a lesser sanction

Through mitigate expenses to a reasonable extent

19. Economic sanctions are most likely to accomplish substantial objectives when:

The target is least reliant on the sender.

The target is more reliant on the sender than the sender on the target.

The sender is more reliant on the target than the target on the sender.

Both are equally dependent on each other.

20. Which of the following statements is not true about Pro se litigants:

Pro se litigants are required to sign their own to papers filed in court

Pro se litigants are unrepresented by counsel

Pro se litigants are not subject to Rule 11

Pro se litigants do not benefit from the amended rule provision shielding represented parties from sanctions for frivolous legal arguments

The amended rule provision shielding represented parties from sanctions for frivolous legal arguments does not apply to pro se litigants

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21. Asset freezing legislation generally permits a person to make the following payments into a frozen account without the need for a licence from OFSI, so long as those funds are frozen after being paid in which of the following?

Any interest on the account

Any earnings on the account

Any payments due to a designated person under contracts

Any agreement or obligations that were concluded or arose before the date the person became sanctioned

Any trademarks and patents created within the account

22. Some of the sanction episodes are confidential, while others are highly transparent. For the latter situations, there are significant listeners, thereby posing the question of costs to the public.

Which of the following is the example of the latter?

The case of Pyongyang's nuclear program

The US attempt to deter South Korea's nuclear program

Washington's use of co-optation program

The policy of reconciliation toward Castro's Cuba

The US attempt to enhance South Korea's nuclear program

23. Which of the following is/are international initiatives that have been undertaken to develop and hone political approaches to the targeting of sanctions?

The Interlaken Process

The UN Security Council Process

The Bonn-Berlin Process

The Stockholm Process on the Implementation of Targeted UN Sanctions

The Targeted Financial Sanctions Process

24. Which of the following could affect the pursuit and implementation of incentive policies?

Institutional struggle

Partisan struggle

Individual Struggle

Factional struggle

National Struggle

25. What is the reason why non-members including the Republic of Korea, have taken steps to implement various sanctions regimes?

Because they want to lessen aggression between countries.

Because they felt more than a moral obligation to apply sanctions.

Because they are mandated by the Security Council.

In order to help maintain or restore international peace and security.

In order to promote and advocate peace.

26. 1.Financial sanctions are restrictions put in place by the UN, EU or UK to do which of the following?

Limit the provision of certain financial services

Restrict access to financial markets

Limit the amount of sanctioned trades

Restrict access to funds and economic resources

Conserve sudden financial spikes in the economy

27. If there is going to be a member state resorting to war in breach of the Covenant then state the final judgment for them?

It would be subject to automatic sanctions

There will be reprisal blockade for it

All economic or financial ties for this will be cut

Forms of violence would fall short of the use of force envisaged for it

There will be reprisal blockade for it and all economic or financial ties for this will be cut

28. Under what objective does the Security Council has imposed sanctions to facilitate the return of refugees and displaced persons in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)?

Promoting good governance

Facilitating the establishment and consolidation of peace

Bringing about disarmament or arms control

Facilitating the exercise or protection of human rights

Ending a rebellion, invasion, or external interference

29. Which of the following best describes the Supreme Court’s rule with respect to overruling criminal penalties imposed for misrepresentations in court filings?

The relevant documents referred to in, and exhibited with, the said affidavit which must include true copies of the judgments with which the application is concerned that is, both of the court below and the court of the first instance verified by affidavit must be provided

False statements in judicial proceedings are not punishable under 18

§ 1001, the federal false-statements statute

The respondent may, if he so desires, file in reply to a counter affidavit not later than two days before the hearing date

An order shall apply to the Court from the court below in civil cases, and to matters related thereto

30. A relevant institutions must inform OFSI without delay whenever it credits a frozen account with which of the following?

Payments made without the prior consent of the legal person or designated person

Payments due under prior contracts

Funds transferred to an account by a third party

Payments made under judicial decisions rendered in an EU member state

Funds dealing with breaches of licensing conditions

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31. Information must be which of the following in order to be useful?

Definable

Accessible

Measurable

Comparable

Justifiable

32. The Council noted that, in order to ensure that Iraq did not increase its capacity to re-arm, states were required to continue to prevent the sale, supply, or provision to Iraq.

Which of the following items is NOT included in this?

arms and related material

nuclear weapons and activities such as nuclear testing

items relating to chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km, and nuclear weapons

technology relating to arms and related material, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km, and nuclear weapons

personnel or training or technical support services relating to arms and related material, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km, and nuclear weapons

33. According to OFSI, how long does it typically take to get a license?

One week

Two weeks

Three weeks

Four weeks

Up to two months

34. Article 51(4) of Additional Protocol I provides that attacks that are indiscriminate if they do the following except?

are not directed at a specific military objective

manifesting unlawful action for any economic sanctions program to specifically target civilians

employ a method or means of combat, the effects of which cannot be limited as required by Additional Protocol

employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective

None of the above

35. The dverse impact of unilateral sanctions on basic human rights of the citizens of the targeted States such as the following is manifest except?

the rights to food

the rights to health

the rights to life

the rights to religion

the rights to access to medicine

36. Asset freezing legislation generally permits a person to make which of the following payments into a frozen account without the need for a license from OFSI, so long as those funds are frozen after being paid in:

Any interest or earnings on the account

Any payments due to a designated person under contracts, agreement or obligations that were concluded or arose before the date the person became sanctioned

Any interest or earnings that is not on the account

Any payment from an unknown source

37. Dealing with economic resources generally means using the economic resources to obtain funds, goods, or services in the following way except?

Selling them

Trading them

Hiring them

Mortgaging them

Investing them

38. Which of the following schemes demonstrates unilateral coercive measures that have a negative effect on the basic means of survival?

Immunity of ESC-rights to economic sanctions.

Human rights objectives.

The friction of international law.

Impact of international human rights law.

The right to impose financial sanctions.

39. How can a state, even during peaceful relations, bring pressure on another state without actual war?

Through Pacific Blockade

Through Round Table Conference

Through Article 12

Through necessary determinations

By using any of the above options

40. A state’s preference for using economic incentives versus sanctions are a function of its policy objectives and the tradeoff between concerns regarding the effectiveness of incentives and the political externalities of their use.

What is the economic statecraft beneficial for?

To achieve global peace

To achieve a noble prize

To buy most land

Used for money laundering

To achieve a variety of substantive and symbolic objects

Certified Global Sanctions Specialist CGSS Study Guide PDF

Certified Global Sanctions Specialist CGSS Study Guide PDF

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