United Nations Security Council

the United Nations’ role and its lost opportunities in the Cold War era remain largely undervalued, overlooked and misinterpreted. This paper attempts to sort out this missing puzzle and its current foreign policy implications. After the failure of the League of Nations, the foundation of the United Nations as a result of the conclusion of the WWII was the second brave political endeavour to unite nation states into a collective security system with the initial dream of a community of nations…

Peter Lyon has once described that. Canadian foreign policy has had a history of sacrifice and contribution. After World War Two in 1945 Canada has lent much of its resources to help create the United Nations, the Bretton Woods system, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As threats of the Cold War spread across the globe Canada became very active in peacekeeping missions. Canada’s commitment to multilateralism and peaceful resolutions has carried…

elements of the Somali diaspora spread across the domestic landscape, al Shabaab is a legitimate threat to the United…

John Kasich’s Philosophy Regarding National Security Americans as citizens have both a duty and honor to uphold our responsibilities in our democratic society. Voting is both a right and a privilege to be taken seriously and with great care. When electing a president one must take careful consideration to the many roles that, the president will fill. The United States president will lead the country as the head of state and head of government, additionally; the president leads the executive…

the nature of international relations was largely defined through the continued practice of attempting to achieve a nation’s own interests, no matter the cost directed towards other states. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States emerged as the victor of the Cold War and as the new unchallenged global hegemonic power, with no other state able to match its power and influence. This resulted in some experts believing that this would lead to an evolution of the field…

Schuker ( former Senior Director for Public Affairs at the National Security Council), “Public diplomacy- effectively communicating with publics around the globe- to understand value and even emulate America’s ideas; historically one of America’s most effective weapons of outreach, persuasion and policy.” Actually public diplomacy…

preside. Understandably, the degree of difficulty in constructing a transitional government tends to correspond to the number of distinctive ethnic, religious and tribal groups involved in the process. The ultimate political objective in carrying out a nation/state-building project is the creation of an enduring liberal democratic state. The administrative mechanisms therein certainly need not be identical in each case so long as they produce liberal democratic rather than autocratic governing…

and very immoral, and indeed abomination to their society. It has been reported that in most peace keeping missions carried out by the UN Security Council has resulted to rape and sexual assault by the mission military groups on the ground. Women, and teenage youths have been sexually assaulted and mistreated and there has not been cases of any of the security guys brought into book. Amnesty international has been publishing and reporting all this reports but with no solid and concrete evidence…

coastal resources. The Bahamas proclaimed its maritime boundaries in 2008, using derivations from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It has worked in agreement with Cuba and currently it is working with the United States of America. The Bahamas is also taking steps to conserve and replenish its own water sources, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works, Philip Davis, said water security and the proper treatment of waste water were two key issues that will be addressed…

Moreover, the United Nations has gone on to address the various ways in which terrorism may derive from. In United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/Res/51/210, the development of terrorist groups, both international and domestic, was highlighted as a major aspect of terrorism, as well as an acts of terrors committed. Within Resolution A/Res/51/210 a multitude of measures were called for in order to combat the increasingly fatal repercussions of terrorism. These measures included a…