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The Conundrum about the United Nations Security Council: A Guardian of Peace or Cause for Concern?
European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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The Conundrum about the United Nations Security Council: A Guardian of Peace or Cause for Concern?
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Berdal Aral
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Fatih University
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baral@fatih.edu.tr
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| Description |
This paper seeks to find out whether the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) has been perfoming its primary task of safeguarding international peace and security effectively since the Cold War has become a matter of history. It argues that, contrary to expectations, the SC has failed to confront all credible threats to regional or international peace in a consistent and convincing manner which has dramatically diminished the reliability of this powerful UN body. This paper argues that the problem lies in the problematical structure of, and decision-making in, the SC and in its instrumentalisation at the hands of a handful of states seeking hegemony, inter alia, through this body. The Darfur and East Timor cases, taken up by the SC after the Cold War through a series of resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, are taken as test cases indicating the extent of politicisation in this organ.
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UN Security Council; Permanent membership; Right of veto; Threat to international peace and security; Negative conception of peace.
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F50, F51, F59.
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European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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2010
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3
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1
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163-175
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/download/46/46
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application/pdf
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Fatih University
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2016-02-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/view/46
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1307-6035
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1307-6000
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eng
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/view/46/46
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| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2016 European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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