Intergenerational Justice and the Paris Agreement
With a broad recognition of climate change as a problematic issue area, a better response needs to be developed while keeping intergenerational justice in mind.
The United Nations’ COVID-19 Dilemmas: Towards a Budgetary Crisis?
Unless major states overcome their opposing interests the positive effects of the additional money that comes in will be washed away by geopolitics.
The Limits of Control? Conducting Fieldwork at the United Nations
We should strive for greater transparency in acknowledging the complexity of our fields, as well as the confusion our own situatedness can cause in the research process.
Self-Determination as Resistance: Sahrawi and Palestinian Struggle for the UN
Officials and activists interviewed from both Palestine and Western Sahara affirm that despite their commitment to diplomacy, self-determination is non-negotiable.
Revisiting the United Nations and the Micro-State Problem
The micro-state problem emerged in the late 1960s as many newly independent; decolonised micro-states applied to join the UN in order to confirm their sovereign status.
Sustaining Peace and Internal Self-Determination in the UN Perspective
Peace agreement’s hybrid self-determination component demonstrate how international and local actors can impact the establishment post-conflict environment domestically.
Alternative Approaches to Self-Determination Applied to the Cyprus Conflict
The UN paradigm has a number of shortcomings and is therefore inadequate to answer modern claims involving self-determination, such as the Cyprus conflict.
The UN as Both Foe and Friend to Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination
The UN, created to uphold the sovereignty of states, has become a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to organise in favour of their rights.
Self-Determination as a Process: The United Nations in South Sudan
In South Sudan, self-determination was ensured only to have it violated by external powers. These interferences did not help end the conflict; rather they made it worse.
The United Nations and Self-Determination in the Case of East Timor
In the case of East Timor, one can argue that the UN was definitely not a friend to the people of East Timor even without the right to self-determination in the equation.
