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Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976550713 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Advancing United States' interests at United Nations : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, June 16, 2015.
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976550713 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Advancing United States' interests at United Nations : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, June 16, 2015.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Economic assistance, American Languages : en Pages : 72
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Economic assistance, American Languages : en Pages : 65
Author: Kara C. McDonald Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations ISBN: 087609437X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 74
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) remains an important source of legitimacy for international action. Yet despite dramatic changes in the international system over the past forty-five years, the composition of the UNSC has remained unaltered since 1965, and there are many who question how long its legitimacy will last without additional members that reflect twenty-first century realities. There is little agreement, however, as to which countries should accede to the Security Council or even by what formula aspirants should be judged. Reform advocates frequently call for equal representation for various regions of the world, but local competitors like India and Pakistan or Mexico and Brazil are unlikely to reach a compromise solution. Moreover, the UN Charter prescribes that regional parity should be, at most, a secondary issue; the ability to advocate and defend international peace and security should, it says, be the primary concern.The United States has remained largely silent as this debate has intensified over the past decade, choosing to voice general support for expansion without committing to specifics. (President Obama's recent call for India to become a permanent member of the Security Council was a notable exception.) In this Council Special Report, 2009?2010 International Affairs Fellow Kara C. McDonald and Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick argue that American reticence is ultimately unwise. Rather than merely observing the discussions on this issue, they believe that the United States should take the lead. To do so, they advocate a criteria-based process that will gauge aspirant countries on a variety of measures, including political stability, the capacity and willingness to act in defense of international security, the ability to negotiate and implement sometimes unpopular agreements, and the institutional wherewithal to participate in a demanding UNSC agenda. They further recommend that this process be initiated and implemented with early and regular input from Congress; detailed advice from relevant Executive agencies as to which countries should be considered and on what basis; careful, private negotiations in aspirant capitals; and the interim use of alternate multilateral forums such as the Group of Twenty (G20) to satisfy countries' immediate demands for broader participation and to produce evidence about their willingness and ability to participate constructively in the international system.The issues facing the world in the twenty-first century--climate change, terrorism, economic development, nonproliferation, and more--will demand a great deal of the multilateral system. The United States will have little to gain from the dilution or rejection of UNSC authority. In UN Security Council Enlargement and U.S. Interests, McDonald and Patrick outline sensible reforms to protect the efficiency and utility of the existing Security Council while expanding it to incorporate new global actors. Given the growing importance of regional powers and the myriad challenges facing the international system, their report provides a strong foundation for future action.
Author: Gary R. Patterson Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 9781478765288 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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As President, Barack Obama has conducted U.S. foreign policy by exclusively adopting the dictates and direction of the United Nations worldview of Multi-National global governance - however, to the detriment of optimally advancing and protecting the best National Security interests of the American People. Specifically, there exists a stark divergence between the competing geo-political philosophies of 1) the United States as the dominant player in world affairs and "an indispensable force for good" (i.e. American Exceptionalism) which President Barack Obama rejects, in favor of 2) Obama's demonstrated preference for the U.N. Multi-National (co-equal nations) worldview of global governance (i.e. The Obama Doctrine of "Leading from Behind"). By consciously shunning the decades-old dominance of the United States as the world's leading nation in geo-political influence, President Obama's actions have served to diminish ("taken down") the stature of the future role of the United States in world affairs. Indeed, in promoting a diminished role for America in world affairs, Barack Obama is consciously serving the cause of, conversely, 1) raising the prominence of the United Nations as the true heir to, what the world body believes, is its rightful and exclusive priority role in dominating global governance in the 21st Century while correspondingly, 2) raising the stature and influence of its next U.N. Secretary-General in particular. Second, in his conduct of U.S. foreign policy - by mirroring the agenda of the U.N. Multi-National model of global governance - Barack Obama has optimally laid the groundwork as a prelude in his desire to become the next U.N. Secretary-General after leaving the White House in 2017. However, President Obama cannot escape that, from the outset, he had a moral obligation to have disclosed to the American People 1) his intent to conduct U.S. foreign policy exclusively through the prism and dictates of United Nations dogma and 2) any ancillary ambition he may have to become the next U.N. Secretary-General - precisely because the voting electorate had the right to know. The American electorate could then have decided if the decision-making process of Barack Obama, as President of the United States, had also conflicted with or been primarily driven by any quest by Barack Obama to, one day, become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. In his signature style, Gary R. Patterson meticulously and compellingly scrutinizes Barack Obama's major foreign policy decisions and events that have occurred during his Presidency specifically to the words, speeches and U.N. policy statements of both the current and former Secretaries-General of the United Nations over the past to two decades, Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. Patterson's analysis convincingly suggests a concerted effort by President Obama, in his conduct of U.S. foreign policy, to both emulate and implement the dictates and global governance policies of the United Nations. Although, many times those decisions appear to be contradictory and at cross-purposes with Barack Obama's principal responsibility to - as President of the United States - serve the best National Security interests of the American People. The Multi-National Takedown of America - As A Prelude to Barack Obama's Desire to Become the Next Secretary-General of the United Nations is Gary R. Patterson's fifth book in the last seven years - all of which critique the Presidency of Barack Obama.
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