scholarly journals Student Engagement and Deep Learning in the First-Year International Relations Classroom: Simulating a UN Security Council Debate on the Syrian Crisis

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lucy West ◽  
Dan Halvorson
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
First Year ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Un Security Council

Outsourcing the Use of Force

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Blokker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Operational Decision Making

This chapter discusses developments in operations authorized by the UN Security Council in the context of the rules governing use of force in international relations. It considers three elements surrounding criticism of the carte blanche nature of Resolution 678 authorizing the use of ‘all necessary means’ against Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait. First, the authorization has no time limit; secondly, it has an extremely broad mandate; thirdly, coalition forces were asked ‘to keep the Security Council regularly informed’. The chapter examines whether the trend towards more Security Council control of authorized operations has persisted. It analyses elements of the authorization resolutions adopted by the Council between 2000 and 2012 and their implications for potential UN responsibility. It argues that operational decision-making is outsourced to implementing states or international organizations but that there are cases when the UN may be held responsible for wrongful acts committed by the authorized operation.

The UN Security Council

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leland M. Goodrich
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
The State ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Human Appendix

It has been the unfortunate fate of the United Nations to have been most conspicuously unsuccessful in performing that task which was to be its major responsibility and for which it was supposed to be best equipped. Naturally this has also been the fate of the Security Council upon which the Members of the Organization, by the terms of Article 24, conferred “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security”. Against this background of failure and consequent dissatisfaction, many have been asking whether the Security Council is fated to become like the human appendix, an atrophied organ with no useful function to perform or whether the present condition is not one that can and should be remedied or that perhaps will be changed in any case by an improvement in the state of international relations. To form a judgment on these possibilities it is necessary to recall the original conception of the Security Council, to review its record, and to analyze the causes of its decline and the likelihood of their elimination or counterbalancing by other forces.

"The Iranian nuclear issue" — origins and history of development

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Anna Igorevna Filimonova
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Level ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nuclear Issue ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Regional Interests

The article examines the emergence and escalation of the "Iranian nuclear issue" at the international level, the role, content and character of the measures taken by the UN Security Council and IAEA, global and regional interests of the USA and the corresponding actions of Washington concerning Iran, including the use of multi-level and multi-layered manipulation. The materials of the article can be used in the preparation of students in the field of "International relations".

Critical Theory and its Practices: Habermas, Kosovo and International Relations

Politics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Head
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Critical Power ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
Communicative Ethics ◽  
Un Security Council

Developing the ‘applied turn’ in critical theory and Habermasian discourse ethics, this article explores whether a communicative ethics approach enables us to examine the justifications for and legitimacy of actions taken by states during NATO's intervention in Kosovo. By focusing on the deliberations which took place in the UN Security Council over Kosovo from March 1998 to June 1999 and the negotiations at Rambouillet in 1999, it will be shown that there are patterns of exclusion, coercion and illegitimacy which not only challenge the claims to legitimacy of the intervention and of the interveners, but indicate the critical power of a communicative framework.

The UN Security Council and Ghosts of Iraq

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poorvi Chitalkar ◽  
David M. Malone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
International Security ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter examines the lingering effects of the United Nations Security Council's engagement with Iraq over four decades. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the Security Council responded by imposing mandatory sanctions against Iraq and later that year authorized a United States-led military intervention. The Council then mandated weapons inspections and eventually a complex humanitarian program to mitigate the deleterious effects of the sanctions imposed against Iraq. In the next round of events in 2002–2003 it proved an ultimately unsuccessful political broker. Finally, the Council resorted to a marginal peacebuilding role after 2003. This chapter first retraces the Security Council's engagement with Iraq from 1980 onwards before discussing the Bush administration's unilateralism in the Iraq War. It also considers the Council's decision making on Iraq from 2002 to 2014 and how this engagement has both reflected and defined wider patterns of international relations, and how learning from Iraq has changed the Council's approach to promoting international security.

scholarly journals Climatizing the UN Security Council

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucile Maertens
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Security ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Climate Crisis

AbstractSince 2007, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has debated the security implications of climate change on several occasions. This article addresses these debates by exploring two interrelated questions: What drives the continuous efforts to place climate change on the UNSC’s agenda and to what extent do the UNSC’s debates illustrate an ongoing process of climatization? To answer these, the article draws on the concept of climatization, which captures the process through which domains of international politics are framed through a climate lens and transformed as a result of this translation. It suggests that climate change has become a dominant framing and an inescapable topic of international relations and that the UNSC debates follow a logic of expansion of climate politics by securing a steady climate agenda, attributing responsibility to the Council in the climate crisis, involving climate actors and advocating for climate-oriented policies to maintain international security.

Pro-Democratic Intervention

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wippman
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Un Security Council

This chapter examines the debates concerning pro-democratic intervention and its implications for the use of force in international relations. It begins by looking at the disagreement over the nature of governmental legitimacy before turning to the legal bases of pro-democratic intervention such as UN Security Council-authorized interventions and interventions by contemporaneous invitation of sitting or recently ousted officials. Interventions by regional organizations and interventions combining two or more of these forms are also discussed. In addition, the chapter considers consent, either by an ousted government or through the use of treaties by regional and sub-regional organizations to authorize military intervention in advance under specified circumstances. Finally, it analyses post-Charter treaties of guarantee and pro-democratic intervention pacts in Africa.

The Syrian Crisis

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-190
Author(s):  
Rosemary Foot
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Veto Power ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
World War ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Voting Decisions

This chapter begins with a brief exploration of the various phases of this devastating conflict. It explores why China has used its veto power on seven occasions over the course of this war (up to September 2019); a puzzle, because vetoing is extremely unusual Chinese behaviour. The chapter also explores the image consequences for China, mostly damaging in the early stages of this war, that have flowed from that change in its approach. It references some of the resolutions that have caused UN Security Council division. In particular, it focuses on the justifications Beijing has offered for the voting decisions it has made over the course of a devastating conflict that has included the use of chemical weapons. The Syrian case is afforded its own chapter in this study not only because of China’s more frequent use of the veto, but also because of Syria’s status as one of the worst failures in human protection since World War II. The case study is additionally instructive with regard to China’s approaches to the UN’s POC and R2P agendas.

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