POLS 2331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations Trusteeship Council, United Nations Secretariat, United Nations Economic And Social Council
20 Feb 2018
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6 organs: peace palace, icj, ecosoc - economic and social council; subsidiary body of the general. Assembly; lacks power; initiates studies and reports; coordinating body; can be politically in uential: un secretariat, trusteeship council - est. Un member states have almost quadrupled from 1945 to 2010 while the unsc members have increased to 15: permanent 5: china, russia, u. s. , great britain, france. The proportionality - or lack thereof - of the p5 is the main limitation to the un. 6 other seats can be lled by non-permanent states by election: growth due to decolonization, cold war, and break up of countries. Two key articles of the un charter: article 2(4): states shall refrain from the use of force. Violated often, most often by p5 members. Reveals the corrupt dynamics of the un. While it might not be e ective in a way that enforces compliance, its existence establishes a baseline of corruption dynamics: article 2(7): the principle of sovereign equality.
