POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Middle Power, Peacekeeping

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

It was established after ww2 to correct failures of league of nations. Ended off talking about international law last week. Some think it will involve into an international government. Security council purposely put in to have veto power; most powerful organ of un which can legitimate the use of force or not. Civil wars: we don"t know how to address these kinds of wars because they are not part of the institutional design on un. So built into the un, you can see several tensions: to mitigate great power warfare, the interest of all other states, balancing act that is not easy to achieve. Look at un charter (drafted in san francisco) [there will be a quote on a2l] But you still see this great power thing in the security council. Article 2. 7 says that there should be universal rights, and all should be equal but sovereignty reigns supreme and so political power is supreme.