POLI 345 Lecture Notes - Warsaw Pact, United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, Member States Of The United Nations
15 Dec 2013
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Covers lectures from 1 to 8, including the readings. Choice of 6 ids, you pick 5. Provide 4 elements of significance for each. What kind of tools does the un have at its disposal to maintain peace and security: the cold war deadlock, how the security council became centrepiece, a survey of key tools. Sc paralysed by repetitive use of the veto, over 40 years. 1946 1965: the ussr was the main vetoer . By the end of the 1960"s, the us used its veto a lot more, as the ussr stopped using it as much. Some countries tried to solve the veto problem by empowering the general assebly, so that it could make decisions on security matters when the sc could not. The us and its allies employed force through a sc resolution. At the time, moscow was boycotting the sc to protest the rejection of communists china by the sc (miscalculation of moves)
