POLS 3255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Decision-Making, United Nations Trusteeship Council, United Nations Human Rights Committee
30 May 2017
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Sovereign states and human rights go hand in hand. Signing and being a party to the agreement, 2 stages on singing a treaty. You have signed on, but have not fully committed. Monarchs were limited by law, natural law, limited by covenants, contracts, promises to the people. Not an autonomous organization that could make rules for sovereign states in an unbiased fashion. Unable to satisfy demands for subjects" peoples" self-determination. Economic struggle, mercantilism, was on the rise. It was a formal organization dedicated towards international disputes. The key states were not members of league of nations (soviet union, us). This again failed to prevent another global conflict. If one country was attacked, all other countries would intervene. 2 major problems of league of nations. (1) collective security was difficult to coexist. Who"s the leader? (2) decision making process was too difficult. Un was formed in 1945, to create an. Un charter established 6 organs; general assembly, security council,
