The Korean Divide North Korea and South Korea was once one country combined. That changed soon after World War II. Since the Soviet Union controlled North Korea it was mainly Communist. North and South Korea were separated on the 38th parallel line. The United States controlled South Korea...

Sovereignty in the Global Age In 1994 leaders of national governments and international institutions failed to stop the slaughter of the Tutsi population in Rwanda, where over 800,000 people were massacred in 100 days. The "governments most involved in Rwanda - France, Belgium, and the Uni...

Keeping Peace In The Future In my opinion there are two main ways of securing peace in the up coming decades. The first way is that of a realist approach and a liberal one. In the eyes of a realist, national security can one hand only be rea...

Security Council Reform Background UN Security Council is the organ with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the UN Security Council must work constantly to enhance its potential for the prevention and settlement of conflicts. The Council's c...

Over a decade ago it was generally expected that the end of the Cold War would usher in the revival of the United Nations. At that time the U.N. negotiated a string of settlements that resolved conflicts between Iran and Iraq, incited the removal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, and ended El Salva...

"Toward Global Parliament" by Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss is a feature article, which speaks about the possible initiation of a popularly elected global body. Recently, representatives of The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, The United Nations, and former President Clinton have ca...

Does veto power have a future in the United Nations Security Council? Perhaps the answer to this question would become clearer if it was reformatted to reflect the true question that lies at the heart of this matter. Will the major powers' that possess veto power relinquish that authority for ...

The League of Nations and its Impact on World Peace Through my studies and research I have come to the following conclusion about the League of Nations: despite all of President Woodrow Wilson's efforts, the League was doomed to fail. I feel this was so for many reasons, some of ...

According to Y. Lincoln and E. Guba's Naturalistic Inquiry (1985), the post-positivist view of policy making construes the leader of an organization primarily as a facilitator, in contrast to the positivist view of a leader as a problem solver and director who uses his or her hierarchical autho...