Zusammenfassung der Ressource
International Institutions - The United
Nations
- MORGENTHAU
- 'sounding board for US policies'
- 'constitutional monstrosity'
- biggest institution - encompasses all states
- General Assembly (GA)
- non-legally binding
- only power is to recommend and talk
- their decisions can be disregarded
- every state is automatically a member
- 1 vote per state
- Observer states (Palestine)
- 2/3 majority can recommend to Security Council
- Security Council (SC)
- political executive
- non-agenda setting power - Max Weber
- If they do not want to discuss a topic
they don't have to
- 9/15 members must agree to pass decisions
- 5 permanent members - USA, UK, FRANCE, CHINA, USSR
- have the power of veto
- 10 non-permanent members who rotate
- 'based on sovereign equality of all members' - UN CHARTER