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The Maintenance of International Peace and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Leland M. Goodrich
Leland M. Goodrich
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A member of the Board of Editors of International Organization, is Professor of International Organization and Administration, Columbia University.
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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.

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II. Cooperation and Conflict
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International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965, pp. 429 - 443
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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