PS 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Osama Bin Laden, Timothy Mcveigh, Secretary-General Of The United Nations

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 280
• Professor: All

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1945 (current headquarters in nyc: us-uk really pushed for it at the yalta conference: roosevelt, churchill. Key tenets of charter: peace & human rights. : countries who put their military on the ground for un actions(i. e. costa rica has no army therefore could never be on the sc: measurement issues: normalization by doing it by percentages. Russia says no, so won"t let it in to the general assembly: countries send ambassadors who act as missions" for their respective country. Memberships: us has about 200, small countries have small missions. What do they do: resolutions(world opinion, free & open forum, everyone no matter the size, gets a voice i. e. : during the cold war, cuba and fidel castro would go on and on about the. Secretary general: ban ki-moon(1/1/2007, 2nd term runs to 12/31/2016: term: 2 years, chosen: by a rotating basis by region(the weakest/irrelevant one is chosen, not from a p-