POL S101 Lecture Notes - Collective Security, North South Mrt Line, Peace Movement
Document Summary
The distribution of power in ir: multipolarity: division of power among three or more states within a system; used to define international politics from 1648-1945, bipolarity: power divided between two major states; typically refers to the. Liberal approaches to security: emphasis on international institutions that have proven to be fairly successful after wwii, particular attention to the un and other collective security measures as means of reducing the negative effects of anarchy. The un charter: establishes basic principles of order all members must agree to including: The un security council: established by chapter 5 of the un charter, originally had 5 permanent members (uk, us, ussr, france, china) and. India, japan, brazil, egypt, or nigeroa: should permanent membership be eliminated, this would meet guaranteed resistance from all current permanent members. Us, uk, france, denmark, iceland, italy, norway, portugal, netherlands, and luxembourg)