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145105
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The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the UN Charter provided an occasion to explore the historical underpinnings of contemporary global governance. This article redresses the neglect of the United Nations as a multilateral structure before the conference that drafted the Charter in 1945. It rehabilitates an underappreciated aspect of the period that began on January 1, 1942, with the “Declaration by United Nations,” namely, the combination of multilateral strategies for military and human security to achieve victory in war and peace. The wide substantive and geographic resonance suggests the extent to which the pressures of the second war to end all wars helped states to overcome their disinclination to collaborate. Today’s fashionable calls for “good enough” global governance abandon the strategy of constructing robust intergovernmental organizations; they are not good enough, especially, because our forebears did much better. Many insights and operational approaches from 1942 to 1945 remain valid for addressing twenty-first-century global challenges.
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094123
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084266
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This Forum arises from a new research programme at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) centred on `Disarmament and Globalisation', of which the Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (ME WMDFZ or `the Zone') project is the first fruit. The issue of WMD is one of the most politically sensitive and diplomatically intractable problems in the region. The project is designed as applied international relations. Through public policy development and international dialogue both governments and civil society are engaged in a form of twin-track diplomacy. The central challenge has been to explore the UN Security Council and General Assembly's objective of freeing the region of WMD. While the majority of contributions to the Forum focus on the core proposal, there are also general reflections on the problems of arms control and disarmament agreements in contemporary international relations theory and practice. Many contributions discuss the requisite political conditions, but there is a strong focus on the mechanisms needed for this particular security regime. These include the verification and monitoring system, confidence- and security-building measures and the WMD-conventional weapon dynamic in the region. To date, political circumstances have more or less precluded negotiations even at a basic stage. The weak diplomatic interest in the Zone is echoed in the few studies and conferences on the topic. This project amplifies the concerns of the international community.
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145874
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This article analyses the Global South’s role in disarmament. It offers evidence of a customarily ignored Southern agency in UN processes and suggests that the later work of Hans Morgenthau explains both this agency and contrary state policies. The article looks at the recent agreement with Iran as an example of constructive convergence and sets out the structure of an emerging and Southern-supported disarmament initiative.
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084290
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