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Enumerate the challenges in the operation of the principles related to collective security in the UN Charter.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The Charter's first purpose, in Article 1(1), is to take effective collective measures against threats to the peace and acts of aggression. Article 2(4) prohibits force, and Chapter VII (Articles 39–51) arms the Security Council to enforce that ban. Eighty years on, the machinery has never run as designed, for reasons of text, great-power politics…

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  • Challenges built into the Charter
  • Political challenges
  • Challenges from new forms of conflict
  • Attempted remedies
  • Conclusion
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