Introduction to the United Nations - 05: Collective Security and Peacekeeping

[@hayatbellakehal3721]

Thank you, your lessons are incredible

[@Creative.Archives]

you speak so well, makes me wanna sleep.

[@bridgetnievinski]

Hi! 10 min in and great lecture so far. From which university are you from? Do you have a bibliography for the lecture? Thanks!

[@MichaelRossiPoliSci]

Hi back! Long Island University Brooklyn. The readings associated with this lecture are chapters 3 and 4 from Karen Mingst, Margaret Karns & Alynna Lyon: The United Nations in World Politics (2017) As well as • Bennet, A. LeRoy & Oliver, James K. 2002. International Organizations: Principles and Issues. ch. 7: “Collective Security and Its Alternatives: Theory and Practice”, pp. 145 - 177 • Sarte Patrice. 2011. “Making UN Peacekeeping More Robust: Protection the Mission, Persuading the Actors”, NY: International Peace Institute, pp. 1 - 5.

[@bridgetnievinski4851]

@@MichaelRossiPoliSci Thanks!

[@eshetualene5670]

I have got lots of points from your nice lecture. Thanks! My question is that can UN and USA interven in the current Northern internal affairs of Ethiopia? Does Ethiopia Have to give order on the 7 UN Agencies workers to leave its territory with in 72 hours?

[@MichaelRossiPoliSci]

Currently there doesn't seem to be any international interest in intervening in Ethiopia. You are, I assume, referring to the Tigray region? For all of the moral platitudes international officials like to use when justifying intervention, it still remains a selective endeavor depending on the geographic location, which gives justification to the Realists that this is all about national interest, as well as the Constructivists and Marxists who make the same argument but justify it further by suggesting Liberalism itself is a selective set of philosophies that only becomes proactive in certain areas while remaining little more that empty rhetoric in others. Similar examples can be made with the Rohingya and Uighur communities. Both, at least get rhetorical attention. The Tigray region of Ethiopia, much like large parts of Africa remain off the radar.

[@vladanlausevic1733]

One key solution is UN reform via global decentralised democracy (civic initiatives) and World Parliament (representative elections). Are you familiar with Democracy Without Borders?