Journal Name:
- European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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Abstract (2. Language):
This paper seeks to find out whether the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) has
been perfoming its primary task of safeguarding international peace and security effectively
since the Cold War has become a matter of history. It argues that, contrary to expectations,
the SC has failed to confront all credible threats to regional or international peace
in a consistent and convincing manner which has dramatically diminished the reliability of
this powerful UN body. This paper argues that the problem lies in the problematical structure
of, and decision-making in, the SC and in its instrumentalisation at the hands of a handful
of states seeking hegemony, inter alia, through this body. The Darfur and East Timor
cases, taken up by the SC after the Cold War through a series of resolutions under Chapter
VII of the UN Charter, are taken as test cases indicating the extent of politicisation in this
organ.
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