POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: United Nations Millennium Declaration, Positive Force, Nationstates
9 Mar 2017
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Tues feb 28/17 understanding of aid giving: us external positioning in the world. Contemporary challenges that have challenges the 1st, 2nd and 3rd un. Iraq us does invade, leading smaller coalition then hoped for. Internal issues within un taken out, another replaces it quickly: oil for food scandal under clinton admin, after iraq war in exchange, premise was iraq could export oil (although under suddam gov) and get food. Reforming the un: meant to alleviate food insecurity in iraq but all sorts of companies are paying money to suddam gov, in order to get the right to sell the food in exchange for oil. Lack of independence: destabilizes the un but helps to show size, complexity of un and how, permanent members undermining autonomy of the sg. Is the un a positive force for dev? seemingly (cid:494)noble(cid:495) objectives can be corrupted: having un as collective/central body certain level of coordination, multilateralism .
