POLI 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ezulwini Valley, Sirte Declaration, Gulf War
16 Aug 2018
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Inequality: inequality of permanent vs non-permanent members. Legitimacy because there is no vote, they are just there and take decisions. Also use of veto (russia and china in the context of syrian war). Not representative of the international community: actual reality of the world"s politics. In 1945, there were many countries that did not exist, gaining their independence and are now members. Also growth of small or medium power like. Italy, japan and germany as former enemies, but now part of the international community. Largest financial contributors of io, germany and japan, don"t have a seat. Lack of diversity: 3 western countries (us, uk, france) and eastern soviet and. Most of the countries that are out of it are not really into democracy: decision-making. Practice of double standard : reflect that you can intervene in a country, but they will never really intervene in countries related to the p5 (ex: tibet with china,
