Like if a world order question asked you to evaluate the effectiveness of legal measures in dealing with the South China Sea, what am I supposed to evaluate??? The effectiveness in promoting world order??? And would this be different for a different part of the syllabus like crime? Like if they asked you to evaluate the effectiveness of the criminal trial process in relation to young offenders, what it the effectiveness based on?? Justice? Idk man
how effective it is in relation to criteria... has it been responsive, achieved justice for individuals, upholding the ROL etc. In these questions its asking you to make a judgement, has it been limited, mixed, moderate. No legal response in world order is really going to be PERFECT due to state sovereignty, so you will generally have a double barrel thesis, it is successful in some areas but limited in others.
For example, in relation to the conflict in Israel and Palestine legal responses have been of limited effectiveness. The United nations is ineffective due to state soverignty...you'd talk about the different arms - the general assembly and the security council. in the secruity council youd talk about veto power which limits the effectiveness. So constantly when answering the question youre evaluating it with your criteria, to PROVE your judgement that its effectiveness is limited.