Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UN Through The Lens of
Realism (Tannett, B. 2012)
Class Lecture
- R: L idealistic principles
- Unsuccessful Utopian Ideas
- Formulated in a moment of optimism post WWII
- Concerned w/ Pow + St Interests
- State centric:
- Created by States for States
- Sovereignity of St more important
- oppose St interference in
Constitution
- Power
- Security Council: permanent members - Veto
- Acknowledging existence of power politics
- Power shapes attitudes in UN
- Resource of power and instrument of policy
- ?Americas hegemony: HQ - UN = NY,US
- power exceeds Liberal ideas
- Privileges to greater powers to avoid failure
- UN an instrument
- aim to achieve interests
- Increase status
- Veto - enables St to oppose aims of other St
- e.g. China for
Taiwan
- e.g. Russia &China
Veto Syria resolution
- Using influence to gain
favors = acheive goals
- Failure of Cooperation
- Wars UN intended to end continued
- Vetoes during Cold War
- Vetoes concerning current
Syrian civil war
- Example of Failure
- Balkan War 1995, 1999
- Srebenica 1995 8,000+ killed
UN-peacekeepers stood by
- Kosovo, 1999. Deaths:130,000
NATO air strike w/out security
council permission.