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...

International relations are dictated, to a large degree, by a set of norms. While some states may, at times, disagree on what actions should be considered "normal," the majority of nations recognize the mutual benefits that can be attained through cooperation on generally accepted "ru...

From ancient times, diplomacy has remained an important means of responding to regional as well as international conflicts. Particularly in the present challenging situation, when economic injustices and military expansion have reached an alarming level, the need to provide timely warning to the cou...

a Conference Yalta Conference was one of the most important meetings of key Allied leaders during World War II. These leaders were President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. Their counties became ...

Social Justice - Refugees Good morning everyone. Front-page news: political decisions, humanitarian aid and asylum. These events are taking place in many parts of the world and are about refugees. Why are there so many refugees? What are the different views on the subject? Who will help them? Wil...

Middle East The political systems of Middle Eastern countries display considerable variety. For much of the post-World War II period, the greatest distinction was between the conservative, capitalist, pro-Western monarchies and the reformist, socialist, and neutralist or pro-Eastern republics, m...

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 ...

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...