POLI 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arab Spring, Ban Ki-Moon, Yoda
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Qaddafi headed human rights commission of un once. The system needs to adapt changes; an organization created 70 years ago need reforms. Reforms will encounter many roadblocks as status quo is challenged. There are 5 permanent members in the security council. Having the veto, even if not exercising it, will be a power it shapes other countries" proposals and policies. When does human person start being? (after conception, a trimester, a full term?) Reformation will not necessarily make these things better. The new government is not nicer to women and minorities than the mubaraq regime. If you want to know about the middle east, do not turn to new york. Un is neither a legislator nor a world government nor democratic organization. Politics is like sausage; you like the end product, but you will not like the process. South china sea will be a point of conflict in recent times.
