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By Martin Binder

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This e-book deals the 1st book-length clarification of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. during the last twenty years the United countries has imposed monetary sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, or even carried out or approved army intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. but no such measures have been taken in different related instances akin to Colombia, Myanmar, Darfur—or extra recently—Syria. What elements account for the UN’s selective reaction to humanitarian crises and what are the mechanism that drive—or block—UN intervention judgements? by means of combining fuzzy-set research of the UN’s reaction to greater than 30 humanitarian crises with in depth-case learn research of UN (in)action in Bosnia and Darfur, in addition to within the most up-to-date crises in Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Syria, this quantity seeks to reply to those questions.

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Its resolutions are binding for all member states and prevail over other conflicting treaties or agreements of any of its member states (Articles 25 and 103). The Security Council consists of 15 members. These are the five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA—and ten non-permanent members that are elected to serve on the Council for a non-renewable period of two years. 1 Council decisions, or resolutions, are adopted by majority vote. Each of the 15 members has one vote; a majority of nine positive votes is required in order for a resolution to pass.

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