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What measures can the UN take to avert regional war in the Middle East?
The Middle East is on the brink of regional war following the recent mass bombing of Beirut's southern suburb and assassination of Hezbollah's Secretary General by Israel. The situation in the region ...
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Has the UN ever made peace between two warring parties?
Has there ever been a time that two adversarial countries at the brink of or engaged in actual war came to an amicable agreement as the result of UN efforts? Has there even ever been a time that ALL ...
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Is this scheme for enforcing a cease-fire viable?
Suppose two countries are at war and consider a cease-fire, but each country suspects that the other country would break the cease-fire unilaterally, e.g. by firing ground-ground missiles. One could ...
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Have UN forces ever successfully defended a region?
One suggested solution for the Gaza strip, once Hamas is eliminated, is to put it under UN control. The suggestion was made by Germany:
“internationalization of Gaza under the umbrella of the United ...
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Why did Ukraine abstain from the UNHRC vote on China?
After reading the answers to this question, I noticed something odd: Ukraine appears to have abstained in the recent vote over China's policy towards the Uyghurs.
However, given the context of the ...
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If one country doesn't recognize another's existence, does the UN charter prohibit anything short of crimes against humanity in their "relations"?
Israel and some Muslim countries (e.g. Syria) have been engaged in a "forever war". Quoting from Wikipedia:
[T]he State of Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic [...] have been locked in a ...
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Is armament considered an aggression in international law? [closed]
I have read many articles claiming the armament of Ukraine or other post-Soviet states to consist an act of aggression vs. Russia.
However the UN charta gives the following definition of aggression:
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What institutions are currently in place to prevent authoritarian militarism?
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 without any real consequences as evidenced by their ability to pull this stunt again now. Maybe tomorrow China annexes Taiwan, Serbia annexes Bosnia etc.
Do we have ...
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Solutions to the problem of the US's strong offensive capabilities incentivising potential adversaries to create 'buffers'?
The US has great reach with very destructive conventional weapons, particularly aircraft carriers and their entourage, which can sit off an enemy coastline and pummel a large landmass indefinitely.
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Can the United Nations security council deploy forces in areas of conflict without consent from a rebel group?
On a United Nations site for, DEPLOYING PEACEKEEPERS, it said that
As a conflict develops, worsens, or approaches resolution, the UN is frequently involved in a number of consultations to determine ...
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What are the consequences for Iraq if it chooses to not repay the amount of war reparation owed?
After the Gulf War, Iraq accepted United Nations Security Council
Resolution 687, which declared Iraq's financial liability for damage
caused in its invasion of Kuwait.[17] The United Nations ...
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Right to declare a war in modern time
While browsing random articles I found an interesting fact - that USA never formally declared a war in Vietnam. After googling a bit more it turned out that since WW2 USA never formally declared a war ...
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Non-subjective definition of "terrorist", or widely used equivalent term?
Philipp comments:
...We all know that one side's terrorists are another side's freedom fighters...
Suppose big Country X provides arms to little Country y's native "freedom fighters", who do ...
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Does Russia's veto at the UN Security Council end any role for the United Nations in investigating the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria?
This afternoon, a resolution at the UN Security Council, aimed to establish an independent investigation into alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria, was vetoed by Russia.
Is there a way that the ...
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Can a UN member be penalized for threatening the destruction of another member?
Suppose a UN member state threatens complete destruction of another member state - not even an invasion, but complete destruction.
This is clearly in violation of the UN's goals and charter - the ...
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Why there's no reaction about Saudi Arabia criminal actions? [closed]
We see that Saudi regime is spreading criminal actions among Muslims. Founding bastards of ISIS terrorist group, Founding Al-Shabab terroris group, Massacre in Bahrain, War in Yemen, and recently ...
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Why is there no call for Hamas to protect and reduce civilian casualties?
In a recent report in the Washington Post, the article indicates that the UN is placing the entire onus of reducing civilian casualties in its war with Hamas on Israel.
In Washington, the Pentagon ...
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What is the purpose of establishment of United Nations?
We know that United Nations was established in order to maintain peace worldwide?
But there have been many wars between countries in history even after its establishment...
So what exactly was UN ...
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What can the rest of the World do to stop Israel-Palestine war? [closed]
Not talking about the past but the present. Right now, the situation in Palestine has gone really really bad.
I don't know what can be done on our part but there has to be something that we can do. ...
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How dangerous a threat does North Korea pose to the world? [closed]
Current news states that North Korea have been ignoring UN resolutions on nuclear development, and have gone ahead with development and testing of nuclear weapons. They have stated that they can, and ...
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