POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ukrainian Nationalism, Currency Union, Equal Protection Clause
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Sovereign entity needed to be created to put an end to using national militaries to solve military disputes. The usefulness of these institutions remain debated. Become a mutual arbiter of disputes, and helping restrain countries by the unified voice of the international world. Record of io from being able to solve international conflict is spotty at best. Un, although it has been somewhat successful has been limited by its own structure, and the veto power of the members of the security council and is unable to act as a neutral arbiter. Likely to be mere instruments to foreign policy, and will never rise above that. A means by which states seek to reach national interests, so states are the central actors. Io will never be able to get a state to cooperate with it if cooperation leads to the weakening of that state. Not everyone in the state of nature has an equal motivation to get out of it.