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The Maintenance of International Peace and Security

1965; University of Cambridge; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0020818300012388

1531-5088

Leland M. Goodrich,

Global Peace and Security Dynamics

It is a truism that the text of the Charter gives a quite misleading picture of the United Nations as it is today. In no respect is this more true than in the working of the Organization in the maintenance of international peace and security. Those provisions of the Charter which were claimed by its authors to provide the new Organization with teeth that the League of Nations did not have either have never been used or have in practice been of little importance. New emphases and new methods have been developed through the liberal interpretation of Charter provisions. These have not always been equally acceptable to all Members, however. The process of adaptation and development continues, with great present uncertainty as to what the future has in store.