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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"UN Security Council"”.
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Reporting on UN Security Council: Decoding Media Bias
… explores Western media's representation 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 …
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State-Seeking Nations: Critical Success Factors, Including Moderate UN Security Council Reform
… to the state-seeking nations with moderate UNSC (P5) reform. This argument proposes that without these critical successful factors, success for a state-seeking nation gaining full statehood is highly unlikely.</p>
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(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ
… was 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 …
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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.
… the major obstacles and challenges that SADC countries 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. …
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IBSA's role in international peace and security: a look from within the United Nations
… Africa served as non-permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. This was the same year that civil wars in both Libya and Syria erupted. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this paper examines the involvement of India, Brazil, and South Africa through looking at …
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Examining the impact of the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine on state sovereignty in contemporary international law
… of international institutions, most notably the United Nations (UN), in global governance has challenged this primacy of sovereignty, in particular with regards to absolutist ‘Westphalian’ conceptions of the principle, and consequently has posed questions regarding how this evolution has impacted …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… have developed in parallel. They have the same function to prevent mass violence and the same complementary approach to state sovereignty. As such, they are activated when a state fails to deal with international crimes perpetrated under its jurisdiction. The activity of the Court and the …
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Assessing changing relations between the Russian Federation and South Africa
… not disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The West seeks to set the terms of Russia's engagement in international relations, but Russia is certain about its belief in taking its rightful place in global affairs. The study argues that Africa provides a source of economic expansion for …
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Blue Helmeted Dragons : explaining China's participation in United Nations peace operations
China's personnel contributions to United Nations peace operations has significantly increased in the first decade of the twenty-first century, however little academic or policy attention has been given to examining patterns of Chinese participation. Most current literature examines China's voting …
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Making War for Women? An Analysis of UN Resolution 1325 and the Gendering of International Intervention
This thesis explores how UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security and its ensuing National Action Plans for gender equality inform justifications of international intervention. I ask the following questions: how does Resolution 1325 and its ensuing National Action Plans for …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) took place between 2004 and 2017, with a mandate to establish a secure and stable environment in the aftermath of a coup that ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide. In this thesis, I investigate how the leaders of MINUSTAH discursively constructed …
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The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States
… regime due to noncompliance with the treaty's fundamental nonproliferation obligations by some 'states of concern,' seeking to possess and develop nuclear weapons. In particular, North Korea's unrestricted development of nuclear weapons and Iran's continuing assertion of its 'inalienable right' …
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War in the name of principles and values : NATO's intervention in Kosovo and its consequences for international stability
… concerns and without support from the UN Security Council. Some policy-makers celebrated what they saw as the creation of a precedent based on humanitarian rationale as opposed to traditional adherence to international rules regarding the inviolability of sovereign states. This paper …
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The applicability of the doctrine of responsibility to protect and legality of NATO Intervention in Libya
The international community gathered in 2005 and adopted the doctrine of responsibility to protect? in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the World Summit Outcome Document.1 A few years after this Resolution, the UN Security Council with the support of the international community, applied the concept of …
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The practice of humanitarian intervention after the end of the Cold War: emerging norm or just practice?: humanitarian intervention and international law
… was an evident willingness of the world community to promote and protect human rights. The Security Council got involved in matters traditionally regarded internal affairs of states and imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions. What is more, the UN authorised military interventions in cases …
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Foreign Intervention and the Process of State Failure Case Study on Libya
… the capacity of the state to carry out its functions on the political, security, and economic levels. I applied this framework on the Libyan case study, focusing on intervention in Libya in 2011. Libya has long been a weak state which persisted during the Gaddafi regime. Prior to the …
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A comparison between the dispute settlement procedures in the international court of justice and the world trade organisation
… of arbitration, by means of cases. It is a voluntary submission by both parties to a dispute, when they have agreed on the issues, but need external assistance to proceed further. As a type of judicial settlement, it is binding, can permit third party or non-state involvement, and is a …
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