POL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: North American Aerospace Defense Command, United Nations General Assembly, Global Governance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 102
• Professor: Adam Thorn

Document Summary

A key body of the united nations responsible for maintaining international peace and security. Consists of five permanent members who each have a veto and ten members who are elected by the un general assembly for two-year terms (these elected members do not hold veto power. Allows for countries to work through some of their issues diplomatically. A military alliance of the united states, canada and democratic european countries: against the society union (protecting from, bipolar system. A joint u. s canadian organization that provides for the detection of and response to an attack on north america, particularly by aircraft and missiles. Even though the cold war is over, these organizations still exist, and are illuminating to the fact that our relationships with the u. s are still close. End of the cold war shifted the international system to a unipolar system: there is one major player (i. e the us)