CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: United Nations General Assembly, Presbyterian Polity, Human Security
26 May 2016
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The states that compromise the un created a group of international institutions. Only global institution with legitimacy that derives from membership and a mandate that encompasses security, economic development, and human rights. The relationship b/w state soveirgnty and the protection of needs and interests of people has not been fully resolved. State soverighty: all countries are equal under international law and that they are protected from outside interference; basis of operation. This debate was complicated with the decision to support the responsibility to protect resolution. Threats to global security addressed by the un now include interstate conflict and threats by nonstate actors as well as political and social conditions within states. A brief history of the united nations and its principal organs. Need a more effective international organization after a war with italy, japan, and germany. In 2011, 193 states were part of the un. Accroding to the charter, the un had 4 purposes:
