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This 4 page paper considers the argument that the United Nations collective security system was designed to allow the maintenance and creation of peace with all nations being equal, but that the way it is being used today indicates that there is one rule for weak states and anther for the powerful states. The paper looks at the various articles and the way they have been used. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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especially wit the recent events in Europe and the Middle East. The aim to have global peace and the idealism that all nations should have the same goal is embedded
in the UN charter. The UN Charter is, in effect, a collective security system and places the primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and the task to restore peace
under Chapter VII is given to the Security Council (Johnson and Niemeyer, 1954). When the UN was created it was foreseen that the Security Council itself would play a central
role in the maintenance of peace, but these measures stake the control gradually away from the council (Rowston, 1991). Today we can argue that the initial aims are still valid,
but that it does not operate in the way that is likely to have been envisaged by the founders of the Charter and that there is an asymmetry of power
between the weak and the strong members. There have always been attempts by the more powerful nations to change the way the objectives were reached. For example, during the
cold war the Uniting for Peace resolution (GA Res. 377 (V) 3 Nov 1950) with the attempt to try and delegate tasks to another body where it was sought to
confer powers on the General Assembly (Sarooshi, 1999). In the case of Southern Rhodesia the powers were delegated to a single state or in the case of Korea when
still trying to keep a level of control (Sarooshi, 1999). During the cold war there were pressures form the more powerful nations, but the act of the veto was a
control against this. Since the time of the cold war the demands on the UN have increased, and the only way of coping with this increased demand has been
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