Back to the Assembly? Power Politics, Domestic Conflict, and Forum Shopping in the United Nations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thales Carvalho ◽  
Luis Schenoni
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Forum Shopping ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Domestic Conflict ◽  
The United Nations

Instrumental Internationalism: The American Origins of the United Nations, 1940–3

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wertheim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
American Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Indispensable Tool

Why did the United States want to create the United Nations Organization, or any international political organization with universal membership? This question has received superficial historiographical attention, despite ample scrutiny of the conferences that directly established the UN in 1944 and 1945. The answer lies earlier in the war, from 1940 to 1942, when, under the pressure of fast-moving events, American officials and intellectuals decided their country must not only enter the war but also lead the world long afterwards. International political organization gained popularity – first among unofficial postwar planners in 1941 and then among State Department planners in 1942 – because it appeared to be an indispensable tool for implementing postwar US world leadership, for projecting and in no way constraining American power. US officials believed the new organization would legitimate world leadership in the eyes of the American public by symbolizing the culmination of prior internationalist efforts to end power politics, even as they based the design of the UN on a thoroughgoing critique of the League, precisely for assuming that power politics could be transcended.

The Attempt to Terminate Colonialism: Acceptance of the United Nations Trusteeship System

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst B. Haas
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
New Form ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Mandate System

To the contemporary liberal humanitarian the acceptance of the League Mandate System by the world's chief colonial powers signified the advent of a New Deal for dependent areas in which the older and baser motives of empire were defeated even if not completely eliminated. To the con-temporary mind impressed with the prevalence of power politics, how-ever, the acceptance of the Mandate System signified nothing of the kind. It merely represented a new form of compromise between clashing imperial powers who sought to remove one source of friction by recourse to “internationalization”

The United Nations, the Cold War, and Its Legacy

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Hankel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Member States ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Cold War

According to the Preamble of the Charter of the United Nations, the member states of this organization resolved ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’ as well as to act in a way that demonstrates ‘faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person’. As demonstrated by the emergence and consolidation of the Cold War, the reality of the situation was very different. The two superpowers (USA and Soviet Union) pursued their own agendas based on their respective power politics. For the most part, the United Nations watched helplessly from the sidelines. The states were meticulous in their efforts to ensure that the United Nations was not allocated any powers that could have led to any appreciable infringement of their sovereignty.

scholarly journals Legitimacy in the ‘secular church’ of the United Nations

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-582
Author(s):  
Jodok Troy
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
The United Nations

This article argues that how the United Nations (UN) conceptualizes legitimacy is not only a matter of legalism or power politics. The UN’s conception of legitimacy also utilizes concepts, language and symbolism from the religious realm. Understanding the entanglement between political and religious concepts and the ways of their verbalization at the agential level sheds light on how legitimacy became to be acknowledged as an integral part of the UN and how it changes. At the constitutional level, the article examines phrases and ‘verbal symbols’, enshrined in the Charter of the ‘secular church’ UN. They evoke intrinsic legitimacy claims based on religious concepts and discourse such as hope and salvation. At the agential level, the article illustrates how the Secretary-General verbalizes those abstract constitutional principles of legitimacy. Religious language and symbolism in the constitutional framework and agential practice of the UN does not necessarily produce an exclusive form of legitimacy. This article shows, however, that legitimacy as nested in the UN’s constitutional setting cannot exist without religious templates because they remain a matter of a ‘cultural frame’.

Radio Propaganda—A Modest Proposal

1958 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Whitton
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
Offensive Weapon ◽  
The United Nations

Once again the attention of students of international law and relations has been directed to the use of propaganda as an offensive weapon of power politics. President Eisenhower, in his historic speech last August before the United Nations, included in his comprehensive plan for the Middle East a proposal for a system of monitoring inflammatory broadcasts.

21. The United Nations

2019 ◽  
pp. 334-348
Author(s):  
Devon E. A. Curtis ◽  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Successes And Challenges

This chapter examines the development of the United Nations and the changes and challenges that it has faced since it was founded in 1945. It opens with three framing questions: Does the UN succeed in reconciling traditions of great power politics and traditions of universalism? Why has the UN become more involved in matters within states and what are the limits to this involvement? What are the UN's biggest successes and challenges in its efforts to prevent and resolve conflict and to promote sustainable development? The chapter proceeds by providing a brief history of the UN and its principal organs. It also considers the UN's role in the maintenance of international peace and security, and how the UN addresses issues relating to economic and social development. Two case studies are presented: the first is about UN peacekeeping in the Congo and the second is about the 2003 intervention in Iraq.

21. The United Nations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon E. A. Curtis ◽  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Successes And Challenges

This chapter examines the development of the United Nations and the changes and challenges that it has faced since it was founded in 1945. It opens with three framing questions: Does the UN succeed in reconciling traditions of great power politics and traditions of universalism? Why has the UN become more involved in matters within states and what are the limits to this involvement? What are the UN's biggest successes and challenges in its efforts to prevent and resolve conflict and to promote sustainable development? The chapter proceeds by providing a brief history of the UN and its principal organs. It also considers the UN's role in the maintenance of international peace and security, and how the UN addresses issues relating to economic and social development. Two case studies are presented: the first is about UN peacekeeping in the Congo and the second is about the 2003 intervention in Iraq.

‘Forum Shopping’ Despite international uniform Contract law Conventions

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Forum Shopping ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Sale Of Goods ◽  
International Factoring ◽  
Substantive Law

One of the asserted advantages and goals of the unification of substantive law lies in the prevention of ‘forum shopping’,1 ie the lawyer's act of seeking the forum that is most beneficial to his client's interest.2 This has been pointed out not only in discussions on unification of law in general,3 but also in discussions on specific international uniform contract law conventions, such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods4 (hereinafter CISG),5 the Geneva Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road6 (hereinafter CMR)7 and the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring8 (hereinafter IFC).9

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