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International Organizations: Global and Regional Governance
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The administrative organ of the United Nations, headed by the Secretary-General.
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Refers to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council who have the power to veto resolutions. These include China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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The main representative body of the United Nations, composed of all 192 member-states and in which each state has one vote.
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Regime theory argues that international institutions or regimes affect the behavior of states or other international actors on a specific issue, such as nuclear weapons or human rights, by promoting and upholding norms and rules governing behavior.
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Signed on June 26, 1945, the Charter serves as the foundational treaty of the United Nations. All members are bound by its articles. The Charter also states that obligations to the United Nations prevail over all other treaty obligations.
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A session that is fully attended by all qualified members.
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Goods that are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. Nonrivalrous means that consumption of the good by one individual does not reduce availability of the good for consumption by others; nonexcludable means that no one can be excluded effectively from using the good.
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A realist interpretation of “power politics” where material and practical factors matter and ethical or moral values do not.
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Economic, diplomatic, or military actions put in place to punish a state in an attempt to coercively force states to comply with legal obligations.
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The head of the Secretariat of the United Nations who also serves as the UN spokesperson. Many other international organizations also use the term secretary-general to designate their organizational leader.
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An organization that is founded and operates, at least in part, on the idea that international organizations can or should have authority higher than individual states and that those states should be subordinate to the supranational organization.
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A majority (such as two-thirds or three-fifths) that is greater than a simple majority.