IS 200 Lecture 9: IS 200 Week 9 Lecture Notes
4 Dec 2016
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General assembly: all sovereign member states with equal standing. Ex: many pro-palestinian resolutions came thru ga that never manifested anything concrete. Secretariat headed by secretary general (currently ban ki-moon) administrative. Veto power usa, uk, china, russia, france. Security council may determine threats to international peace and the appropriate responses. Promotion of human rights was also added to article 1, but originally thought of as secondary to promoting peace and security. Bruce pilbeam wrote an article about how russia had not vetoed and that was in 1950 when unga agreed to go in to korea and russia did not attend unsc meeting (google article for general interest) Method that developed as a second best approach. There were a lot of high expectations that the un had had, but those expectations had to be lowered down to peacekeeping (since un could not end war as such realizing this during cold. So, peacekeeping emerged as one of the core activities of the un.
