POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Power, Presbyterian Polity, Tyrant
5 Jul 2016
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Parliament of nations: general assembly: recommendations/budgets/moral press, secretariat: global diplomat, functionalist: (human rights) issue-area agencies, international court of justice (icj, the un in actuality. First un: the bureaucracy: led by the secretary general, serves states members and acts somewhat autonomously, normally (unfairly) referenced as to what the un is doing. Served by the secretary general: great power leadership. Two categories of tasks: non-coercive, consensual, and neutral assistance, mainly the first un . Judgmental, partisan, and coercive defeat of aggressors: mainly the second un , first un" tasks. Promotion of the pacific settlement of disputes: arranging and conducting negotiations, honest and skilled mediators, a disappointing record, not all disputes amenable to mediation, the second un" intrudes. Peacekeeping: warring parties invite neutral un force to police a fragile peace, a cold war intervention, utilized mostly after 1990, necessary collaboration with the second un.
