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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Security Council"”.
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The United Nations Security Council A Review of the Security Council and their Ability to Uphold the Charter
Under the United Nations Charter the Security Council was mandated to ensure the maintenance of international peace and security. Within the Security Council, the five permanent members, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russian Federation and China have special veto powers that have …
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Reporting on UN Security Council: Decoding Media Bias
… of the United Nations (UN), focusing on the Security Council's role in global conflict resolution. It examines how UN-accredited correspondents perceive the effectiveness of the Security Council, particularly when the body faces deadlock. The study employs text analysis techniques to identify …
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Beyond the Veto: Chinese Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council
… and sometimes contentious participant in the UN Security Council. For the U.S., China has complicated decision-making on a range of issues, including North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Burma, Zimbabwe and Libya. China's material interests in several of these "pariah states" has raised problems for …
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The United Nations Security Council: ways out of the Veto-Dilemma
… executive body in the world - the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As a permanent member, Russia holds the power to block draft resolutions of the UNSC with a veto. The main responsibility of the UNSC is the maintenance of peace and security. To this end, the UNSC is allowed to order …
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State-Seeking Nations: Critical Success Factors, Including Moderate UN Security Council Reform
<p>This thesis proposes realistic critical success factors of state-seeking nations (breakaway regions) in gaining full statehood. It also includes ramifications to the state-seeking nations with moderate UNSC (P5) reform. This argument proposes that without these critical successful factors, …
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Politics of the Veto in the Security Council of the United Nations
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Reforming the United Nations Security Council: Making it more Democratic in the Post-Westphalian Legal Order
The Security Council has sometimes failed to perform its main duty, which is the maintenance of international peace and security. The Council’s responsibilities in this regard have grown as new international challenges have emerged. These challenges include global environmental issues, refugee …
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Veto Syria: Explaining the Power of the United Nations Security Council and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
… is to provide an analysis of the United Nations Security Council compliance with the Charter of the United Nations and the effectiveness of its Responsibility to Protect innocent civilians from crimes committed against them, particularly within the Syrian region in the Middle East. In addition, …
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(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ
… certainly the case, voting patterns in the UN Security Council present a more nuanced picture. Counterintuitively, France, the United Kingdom and the United States—three of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the Permanent 3 or P3) and members of the NATO alliance—voted apart on …
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‘The role of the United Nations Security Council in addressing the challenges brought by Climate Change'
… the question arises whether the United Nations Security Council, with its ability to pass binding resolutions, could thus be a successful alternative to address the issues resulting from climate change. In contrast to conventional treatymaking, United Nations Security Council Resolution are …
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The legality of using the United Nations Security Council to bind third parties to the Rome Statute
The consequential problems emanating from the linkages between law and politics in the international sphere will be examined in this dissertation. In particular, the SC referral mechanism to the ICC and its associated problems will be explored. The primary focus will be an investigation of the …
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Turning the focus inwards: the decision-making process in the security council and the international rule of law
The United Nations Security Council is entrusted under the UN Charter with primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the international peace; it is the only body with the power to legally authorise military intervention and impose international sanctions where it decides. …
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Building positive peace? : A gendered analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) forms part of the United Nations approach to international peacebuilding. Whereas the resolution has been critiqued in terms of its implementation, there is a gap in the existing analysis concerning a deeper critical understanding of gender and the …
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United States national security policy under presidents Truman and Eisenhower: the evolving role of the National Security Council
… pressure to preserve United States national security. One of its most important responses to this expanding Cold War was the National Security Act. Passed by Congress in July 1947, this legislation established a new, potentially revolutionary, presidential advisory body--the National Security …
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UN Security Council Resolution 1373: the substantive basis for a developing legal framework for the prevention and suppression of acts of terrorism
… contribution of this thesis is to argue that UN Security Council Resolution 1373 has formed the basis for a developing legal framework for the preventing and suppression of acts of terrorism. The absence of a single definition of the term “terrorism” led to 12 separate UN counter-terrorism …
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The other side of 9/11- Obstacles and challenges facing SADC countries in implementing UN Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) relating to terrorism.
… are facing in the context of implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1373 relating to terrorism. It sets out to evaluate how successful efforts to strengthen legal and institutional mechanisms within SADC to combat terrorism have been. The dissertation will assess the impact that terrorism …
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A critical examination of the relationship between the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council, in the light of referrals and deferrals
… Criminal Court (Court) and the United Nations Security Council (Security Council). This relationship is demonstrated through Security Council exercise of referrals and deferrals. This dissertation discusses first, the Security Council referrals of the situations in Darfur, Sudan and Libya. …
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