DISARMAMENT AND DISORDER: THE UNITED NATIONS AND DISARMAMENT IN THE ERA OF ARMS CONTROL.
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Title
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DISARMAMENT AND DISORDER: THE UNITED NATIONS AND DISARMAMENT IN THE ERA OF ARMS CONTROL.
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Identifier
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AAI8302492
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identifier
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8302492
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Creator
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BEKER, AVI.
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Contributor
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Abraham Bargman
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, International Law and Relations
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Abstract
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Contrary to what Third World representatives would suggest a few decades later, the United Nations Charter was never designed to promote disarmament objectives. The drafters of the Charter believed in an international order based on a collective security system under which the major powers would enforce peace and security. Experience has shown that disarmament, which in essence is about the organization of power in the international system, cannot be dealt with as a self-contained process regardless of the conditions of world order. This work proceeds from the premise that there is a revealing gap between the system reflected in the Charter, particularly with respect to disarmament, and what the United Nations became under Third World stewardship.;The dramatic changes in the balance of power within the United Nations brought about a shift in the disarmament debate from the East-West to North-South axis. The New International Economic Order (NIEO), the overriding concern of the Third World, has changed dramatically the political culture and the climate in which security, disarmament and world order issues are examined. Disarmament is no longer treated as a security concept but rather as a vehicle to reallocate resources in order to challenge the hegemony of the great powers and create a more equal world order. This attitude of the Third World tends to undermine the nonproliferation regime and jeopardizes initiatives to put restraints on the international trade of arms. Like in the North-South economic confrontation, the Soviet Union has managed to disassociate itself from the "North" and exploits some disarmament issues for its campaign against the West.;The work concludes that the juxtaposition of North-South and East-West confrontations tends to foster the tendency to introduce grandiloquent and sweeping plans which ignore questions of international security. At the same time this tendency prevents the United Nations from promoting realistic discussions on limited bargains of achievable and workable agreements of arms control.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Political Science
