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The United Nations is not political system acting in a vacuum: nor does it operate above international system. Comment.

  • UPSC 1992
  • United Nations

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The statement makes two negative claims. The UN is a political system shaped by its environment, not an insulated arena of rational deliberation; and it is a sub-system of the international system, not a government standing over it. Both follow from a Charter resting on sovereign equality (Article 2(1)) and domestic jurisdiction (Article 2(7)).

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  • The UN as a political system
  • Not acting in a vacuum
  • Not above the international system
  • Where the statement needs qualification
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