POSC 3522 Final: UN Final Study Guide
12 May 2016
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Article 33: call for negations & mediation. Sc can call upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means. Action w respect to threats / breaches to peace & acts of aggression. In korean war both sides claim sovereignty over peninsula, no north korean rep in un. Multilateral organizations authorized the deployment of military forces in about half of interstate conflicts since wwii. Question: why do powerful states so often channel coercive foreign policies through international organizations (ios?) Conceptualizes ios as agent of the international community: Serve to constrain and assess policies of potential coercing states. Process generates information that can be used by the international community to distinguish desirable from undesirable actions. Two types of information and two intended audiences. Policy information for rationally ignorant foreign publics. Failed states: states that have lost the monopoly on legitimate violence. Trust & non-self-governing territories: former colonial holdings, not yet states.
