The United Nations: States Vs International Laws"This book explores the structure of the UN, its achievements and its weaknesses, explaining what it can and cannot do, and why. It traces mankind's quest for international laws, especially with regard to war; and shows how the US shaped the UN and continues to direct and limit its functioning"--Provided by publisher. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWells (philosophy, emeritus, Univ. of Hawaii, Hilo; An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics ) is active in the UN Association of the United States. In his latest work he wants to prove that the UN has ... Read full review
The United Nations: states vs international laws
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWells (philosophy, emeritus, Univ. of Hawaii, Hilo; An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics ) is active in the UN Association of the United States. In his latest work he wants to prove that the UN has ... Read full review
Contents
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Chapter III The Role of the Security Council in War and Peace | 72 |
Chapter IV The Precedent of War Crimes Trials and the Bases for the UN International Criminal Courts | 101 |
The Special Case of the ILO Versus GATT NAFTA and the WTO | 134 |
Postlude | 168 |
Index | 187 |
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Popular passages
Page 75 - Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Page 75 - Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Page 13 - To maintain international peace and security, and to that end : to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace...
Page 23 - The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Page 165 - No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind.
Page 8 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 75 - Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee. Article 47 1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating to the Security Council's military requirements for the maintenance of international peace and security...
Page 11 - That they recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving States, and open to membership by all such States, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Page 153 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The United Nations: States Vs International Laws Ciencia politica |
| Author | Donald Arthur Wells |
| Publisher | Algora Publishing, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0875863639, 9780875863634 |
| Length | 193 pages |
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