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Shapley-Shubik vs. Strategic Power: Live from the UN Security Council

In: Power, Freedom, and Voting

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  • Stefan Napel

    (University of Bayreuth)

  • Mika Widgrén

    (Turku School of Economics and ETLA)

Abstract

The United Nations Security Council is the dominant political organ of the United Nations (UN). It is in charge of deciding upon the ‘effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace ...’ which are mentioned by the Charter of the United Nations after defining the UN’s prime purpose: ‘to maintain international peace and security’ (Art. 1(1)). The Security Council consists of 15 members altogether. Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US are permanent members, i.e. belong to the Council at any point in time. The remaining ten seats are filled by non-permanent members that, at the time of writing, were: Argentina, Congo, Denmark, Ghana, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia, and Tanzania. They are elected by the UN General Assembly according to regional quotas for a term of two years, with five members replaced each year, and no possibility of a direct re-election.

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  • Stefan Napel & Mika Widgrén, 2008. "Shapley-Shubik vs. Strategic Power: Live from the UN Security Council," Springer Books, in: Matthew Braham & Frank Steffen (ed.), Power, Freedom, and Voting, chapter 6, pages 99-117, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-73382-9_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_6
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