UN Done. (Foreign Policy & Defense)
"Why the Security Council Failed" by Michael J. Glennon, in Foreign Affairs (May-June 2003), 58 E. 68th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
The dramatic rupture of the United Nations Security Council over Iraq earlier this year made evident that the grand dream of the UN's founders--subjecting the use of force to the rule of law--had failed. But the fault lay not with the United States or France or other member nations, argues Glennon, a professor of international law at Tufts University's Fletcher School. Rather, it lay with underlying geopolitical forces "too strong for a legalist institution to withstand."
Given the recent evolution of the international system, the …
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Article title: UN Done. (Foreign Policy & Defense).
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: The Wilson Quarterly.
Volume: 27.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Summer 2003.
Page number: 90+.
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