UNITED NATIONS: Major powers need shared vision

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In this article

  • Membership
  • Diplomatic forum
  • Legitimacy
  • Privilege
  • How states use the UN
  • Legislative
  • Symbolic
  • Mechanism by default rather than design
  • Protection of interests
  • Whose UN?
  • Personalities
  • When and why states go outside the UN
  • Constraint
  • Fear of bias
  • Concerns about effectiveness
  • Fear of great power/US hegemony

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