{"title":"An Institution for International Justice","authors":"K. Leary","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3591504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3591504","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a model of an institution to satisfy the principles of International Justice which are taken to The Articles of The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The institution performs the dual role of governing nonsovereign areas and providing basic human needs in partnership with governments of sovereign areas such that a distinction is drawn between sovereign justice, which is upheld by governments of sovereign areas, and international justice, which is upheld by the institution of the model. The institution is not a government and with no powers of taxation, but is, in terms of power, on par with federal governments and coordinates fiscal transfers between them to satisfy basic human needs while providing security in nonsovereign areas such that the principles of international justice are satisfied.","PeriodicalId":431022,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Politics of the UN (Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127720071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UN and International Economic Law: Centrality in A Polycentric System","authors":"Ran Cao","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3373159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3373159","url":null,"abstract":"During the past decades, the world has witnessed a trend of centralisation of power in international organisations, especially the bodies dealing with international economic law. The trend seems to demonstrate a theory provided by E Jouannet, that, running by its ‘international character’, the international organisations like the UN will use its power to enhance its central role in the international legal system, which finally leads to the enhancement of international law. However, the 21st-century international law also experiences the trend of fragmentation, which distributes the power of international organisations into regional and functional regimes who have no hierarchical connection with their international peers. Combined with these two theories, this essay finds that though the UN has become a more active and effective actor in international economic law that it was in the post-war era; but the modern international economic law has grown to a polycentric system where the UN cannot hold a single-dominated position.","PeriodicalId":431022,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Politics of the UN (Topic)","volume":"48 25","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133784753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China & U.S. Relationship and Global Community: Responsibilities and Roles in Addressing Global Issues","authors":"Jean Claude Geofrey Mahoro","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3125257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3125257","url":null,"abstract":"It is not easy to say that global issues can be tackled thoroughly as they are. However, MDGs achievements show a significant pace of the United Nations. But the question is to know whether a current relationship between China and United States can at least help the United Nations to effectively address the issues which the international society is laboring with. These issues include spread of deadly technologies, nuclear weapons proliferation, wars on terror, mass atrocities, economic upheavals from climate change and an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease. The mutual relationship between China and United States known as Sino-U.S. relations underpins different domains in which these countries cooperate. This relationship entails mutual political, economic, and security interests. In addition, both countries have the same regard in the prevention of international terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation, however, there are few elements that can raise tensions between these two countries. With that cooperation, the global community expects to get enormous benefits and power that can effectively impact the challenges that it is undergoing. Both China and U.S. are expected to intensify the international cooperation at the regional and continental level to ensure the promotion of human rights. In addition, as long as both countries are members of the P5, they are expected to strengthen good governance and human dignity and law enforcement to guarantee fair justice systems ensuring the rule of law, though the world burdens should not fall under their shoulders alone. Therefore, the primacy and leadership of China and U.S. over other countries is expected to help international institutions in many aspects. For example; through guaranteeing complementarity in the international system and global governance which is vital and through mobilizing political will with better policies which are required to effectively tackle global issues.","PeriodicalId":431022,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Politics of the UN (Topic)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122469678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Peace and Security: The United Nations and the Conflict in the Kivus","authors":"Stean A. N. Tshiband","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1375524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1375524","url":null,"abstract":"The degrading security situation in the Kivus has become a major international concern for peace and stability. This article examines the possibilities for decisive action to curb the cycle of violence costing lives of 45,000 people and driving into exile other hundreds of thousands per month. It explores legal bases and circumstantial arguments for stronger UN engagement into the Kivus to pacify the last pocket violence stopping peacebuilding efforts of the international community in the DRC.","PeriodicalId":431022,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Politics of the UN (Topic)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131294076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}