The Union Budget And The Budgetary Procedure

Member States ◽

The United Nations ◽

The Eu

The shape and content of the EU budget define what the EU wants to be, what it can actually do, its nature, and its aspirations. As often happens with the EU, much depends on the terms of comparison: the Union budget, which is slightly higher than 1 per cent of the EU Gross National Income (GNI), is much smaller than the budgets of most Member States but, at the same time, it is three times bigger than that of the United Nations. Its size and, even more so, the EU procedures which set its expenditures—apart from its revenues—reveal that the EU aims to be something different from a mere international organization.

Historical Failure or Political Realism? The 1956 Hungarian Revolution’s (Mis)Handling by the United Nations

Köz-gazdaság ◽

10.14267/retp2021.03.04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 31-47

Author(s):

András Nagy

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

The Political ◽

Political Realism ◽

Archival Research ◽

Member States ◽

Moral Principles ◽

The United Nations ◽

The Revolution

After nearly G5 years of the Hungarian 195G Revolution, several questions remained unanswered, mainly concerning the international responses to the Revolution and the brutal suppression of the revolt. The article examines the possibilities and the limitations of the international organization when two member states violate the Charter ofthe very organization,they are members of. Based on current archival research concerning recently declassified documents, the (mainly behind the scenes) activity and the (mainly demonstrative) passivity of the UN are analyzed and explained, without offering any excuse for the political pragmatism of the organization that was once built on moral principles.

Global Eclectic Treatment of Covid-19: Global, Regional, and National Perspectives on Common Enemy

Nation State: Journal of International Studies ◽

10.24076/nsjis.v4i2.596 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 247-262

Author(s):

Hirshi Anadza Askandar ◽

Rommel Utungga Pasopati ◽

Syarifuddin Syarifuddin

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

National Interest ◽

Global Level ◽

Common Enemy ◽

The United Nations ◽

The Eu

After being called the UN's, COVID-19 has become a global common enemy today. The escalation of the pandemic has been responded to nationally, regionally, as well as globally. However, the efforts of the United Nations as the most significant international organization are interpreted differently at the regional and national levels. That way, there will be a gap in understanding between the handling of COVID-19 at the global, regional, and national levels. Therefore, this paper discusses further how the COVID-19 as a common global enemy is reflected in regional and national actions against this pandemic? The global eclectic theory is explored to explain how global concepts relate to more specific concepts. Comparing the COVID-19 handling policies in ASEAN, SAARC, and the EU is needed to deeply explain the differences in handling the outbreak in each region. The result shows that common enemies do not automatically reflect joint regional action. National interest is still challenging to consolidate at the regional, furthermore global level. Moreover, cultural differences between countries cannot be reduced quickly in global matters.

Part VII Structure and Operations, Ch.38 Executive Heads

The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations ◽

10.1093/law/9780199672202.003.0038 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Chesterman Simon

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Member State ◽

Secretary General ◽

Member States ◽

The United Nations ◽

Commander In Chief

The executive head of an international organization (e.g. president, secretary-general, managing director, or some other title) exists in a curious limbo. He or she is entrusted to lead an organization that may employ tens of thousands of people and administer a budget in the billions of dollars. At the same time, however, his or her ability to operate independently of member states may be severely constrained by the powers entrusted to the office or tight constraints over finances. This tension is evident in the United Nations (UN), where the Secretary-General heads the Secretariat and is nominal commander-in-chief of 100,000 peacekeepers but is formally appointed as the organization's ‘Chief Administrative Officer’. This chapter examines the appointment of executive heads and the formal functions ascribed to them. It then turns to the question of how the various officeholders have implemented those functions in practice, focusing on the ability to operate independently of member-state interests.

The United Nations and the European Union

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1091 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Carla Monteleone

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

United Nations ◽

General Assembly ◽

The European Union ◽

Member States ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Wide Range ◽

The United Nations ◽

Organizational Cooperation ◽

The Eu

The European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) are expressions of a rules-based global order. The EU has enshrined support to the UN in its security strategies, and its priorities indicate an engagement in a wide range of UN programs and activities to maintain the rules-based order and adapt it to face internal and external challenges. The EU and its member states are the largest contributors to the UN budget. Following the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, the EU has increased its representation at the UN, gaining enhanced observer status in the General Assembly. However, because of the intergovernmental nature of the forum, only its member states have the right to vote. This has led scholars to investigate the actorness of the EU at the UN through the analysis of the voting cohesion of EU member states in the General Assembly. Less attention has been paid to the behavior of EU member states in the Security Council. Existing scholarship has tended to analyze how the EU acts within the UN more than inter-organizational cooperation. However, the contribution of the EU and its member states to UN activities in the area of peace and security maintenance is particularly relevant and is a reminder that inter-organizational cooperation deserve greater attention than the one it has received so far.

Asian-African Coalition and International Organization: Third Force or Collective Impotence?

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500022464 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 417-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

F. Triska ◽

Howard E. Koch

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Security Council ◽

United Nations Security Council ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Member States ◽

WithinTheLast decade, the United Nations has undergone three modifications which, taken separately, are quite significant; together, they represent a true metagenesis of the Organization.The first modification paralleled a development which had occurred in the League of Nations: both organizations were designed to be led, if not controlled, by the powerful members permanently seated in the League's Council and the United Nations' Security Council. In both organizations, however, the less powerful member states, in spite of the constitutional provisions, have persisted in endeavoring to assert themselves and have sought in numbers a balance to, and — whenever feasible — a substitute for, the authority lodged with the few strongest nations. The ultimate acquisition of prestige by the Assembly of the League of Nations was their success.

Land of Blue Helmets

10.1525/california/9780520286931.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

United Nations ◽

Arab World ◽

International Conflicts ◽

Member States ◽

Post Cold War ◽

The Past ◽

The United Nations ◽

The Cold War ◽

Political Mediation

Born in 1945, the United Nations (UN) came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding geopolitical tensions in key international conflicts in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, such as hostilities between Palestine and Iraq and between Libya and Syria. Much has changed over the past seven decades, but what has not changed is the central role played by the UN. This book's claim is that the UN is a constant site of struggle in the Arab world and equally that the Arab world serves as a location for the UN to define itself against the shifting politics of its age. Looking at the UN from the standpoint of the Arab world, this volume includes chapters on the potential and the problems of a UN that is framed by both the promises of its Charter and the contradictions of its member states.

Sustainable Public Administration

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116382 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6382

Author(s):

Harald Heinrichs ◽

Norman Laws

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

United Nations ◽

Public Administration ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Member States ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

Development Goals ◽

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was agreed upon by 193 member states of the United Nations in September 2015 [...]

2. Memorandum on the Legal Aspects of the Problem of Representation in the United Nations, Transmitted to the President of the Security Council by the Secretary-General (Lie), March 8, 1950.

10.1017/s0020818300029374 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 356-360

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Security Council ◽

Legal Theory ◽

Legal Aspects ◽

Secretary General ◽

Member States ◽

Practical Standpoint ◽

The primary difficulty in the current question of the representation of Member States in die United Nations is that this question of representation has been linked up with the question of recognition by Member Governments.It will be shown here that this linkage is unfortunate from the practical standpoint, and wrong from the standpoint of legal theory.

The Fifty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2642062 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 95 (1) ◽

pp. 213-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael J. Dennis

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Nongovernmental Organizations ◽

United Nations ◽

Member States ◽

Sixth Session ◽

The fifty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 20 to April 28,2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Shambhu Ram Simkhada of Nepal. The delegations of fifty-three member states and ninety-one observer states werejoined by 1760 representatives of 224 nongovernmental organizations. The Commission ultimately adopted one hundred resolutions and decisions, three-fourths of them by consensus.

The world’s repository at 75: a history of the United Nations Archives*

Comma ◽

10.3828/comma.2019.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2019 (2) ◽

pp. 19-36

Author(s):

Aleksandr Gelfand

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

San Francisco ◽

Records Management ◽

Significant Events ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The United Nations ◽

Administrative Structures

Seventy-five years ago (1945), the United Nations (UN) was founded in San Francisco by 50 nations. There, a small archives unit served to assemble the first records of the organization; this was the first iteration of today’s Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS). Throughout its history, the fortunes of the UN Archives have waxed and waned, while its role has continuously evolved. Trying to carve out a place for itself within the largest international organization in the world, its physical and administrative structures have undergone profound changes, as has its mission, number of staff, the type of records it holds and its users. This paper examines significant events in the development of the UN Archives, the challenges it has faced and what may be learned from them.