Lecture 14: International Organizations

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Lecture 14 International Organizations
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• History 1865 ITU 1874 UPU, League of Nations
• League of Nations
• Purpose
• Structure Council, Assembly, Secretariat, ICJ
  (ILO).
• Problems
• Rule of unanimity
• No military capability
• Membership
• Performance
• Some successes
• Failure of collective security Manchuria,
  Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Poland
• United Nations

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• Structure
• Security council
• 5 permanent, 10 non-permanent members
• Veto power of permanent members
• General Assembly
• One nation-one vote
• Non-security matters
• Secretariat/Secretary general
• -Economic and social council (administers
  specialized agencies).
• -ICJ

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• Performance during Cold War
• During Cold War, no collective security (veto
  problem)
• Other accomplishments good offices,
  peacekeeping
• Performance since Cold War
• No automatic veto
• Increasing international consensus
• Expanded scope for peacekeeping (second
  generation peacekeeping, democratic transitions,
  humanitarian intervention).
• Collective security?
• UN Charter
• Issue of Iraq
• Problems Security Council representative,
  financial problems.
• Role of specialized agencies