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Dysfunction junction intelligence, peacekeeping, and the United Nations
United Nations peace operations continue to play a vital role in international security, with 15 missions underway in 2007. The UN, however, lacks the institutional intelligence capacity to provide guidance, high-level assessments, and tactical/operational intelligence support for the over 100,000 …
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Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization at the United Nations
This thesis tests an agent-centric, social constructivist perspective on interstate socialization. I draw upon diplomacy at the United Nations—especially, at the General Assembly—as the focal point for that socialization in a global, multilateral context. My research question concerns how states …
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The impact of motivation on national employee performance in the United Nations Organizations: A case of the United Nations World Food Programme in Tanzania
This study aimed at investigating the impact of motivation on the national employees’ performance in WFP Tanzania. Specifically, the study sought to examine the extent to which financial oriented factors motivates employees performance, investigate the immediate non financial oriented factors that …
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An economic analysis of the councils of the United Nations
This thesis consists of three pieces of research focussed on the Councils of the United Nations, predominantly the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). We consider three broad questions: which countries typically get on to the UNSC in its current form; which countries ought to get on to the …
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Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations
What do Americans think about the United Nations? Social scientists have put forward an array of viewpoints on the subject, focusing on such things as partisan differences in the attitudes of Americans towards the work of the UN to public skepticism of the organization’s objectives and …
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Human security in international law: the role of the United Nations
The research is a study of the place of human security in international law and the roles of the UN in the quest for human security.
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The impact of foreign aid on voting inside the United Nations
The purpose of this thesis is to determine if there is a connection between United States foreign aid donations and a recipient nation's voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly. Tests in the past have not employed thorough methodologies to deal with the abundance of variables that …
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Weaving the Tapestry of Life: The United Nations and Global Governmentality
Weaving the Tapestry of Life. The United Nations and Global Governmentality My doctoral research evolves around the question how the Secretaries-General have been constructing the UN as a peculiar subject in world politics, and how this construction is linked to the cognitive structures in which …
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Beyond the Veto: Chinese Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council
… as a "diligent apprentice," China has emerged in the early 21st century as an active 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. …
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The United Nations Security Council: ways out of the Veto-Dilemma
… 2022, Ukraine has been at war with Russia. The war was initiated by Russia without any international legal legitimacy. Russia is a permanent member of the most powerful international executive body in the world - the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As a permanent member, Russia holds …
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The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts
Since 1948, the United Nations (UN) has launched 83 peace missions across the globe. After the end of the Cold War, the nature of UN peace missions changed and the UN began to mandate its peace soldiers to perform a greater variety of tasks. One of these tasks was the protection of civilians (POC). …
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Political globalisation and the process of the restructuring of the United Nations
This dissertation addresses the globalisation of politics and the multitude of evolving changes that accompany it. As such a process reaches wider dimensions, the raison d'etre of the United Nations and the practical applicability of its policies are questioned. States as well as people have been …
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The Role of The United Nations in The Protection of Human Rights
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The Formation and Functioning of The Trusteeship System of The United Nations
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