The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the United Nations' most powerful institutional body, charged with the "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." The main instrument through which the Council asserts this power is its resolutions, specifically by...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 1 - 12 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
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