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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| End of History | Frances Fukuyama |
| Conflict of cultures | Samual P. Huntington |
| Web of Interconnectedness | Heywood |
| Anarchical Society (1977), society of states | Hedely Bull |
| UK not following UDHR or ECHR (universal and european) | Wont let prisoners vote |
| China wealth ownership | 1% richest own 1/3 of wealth in 2016 |
| World Bank numbers on poverty | Numbers living in $1.25 a day reduced from 1.9bn in 1980 to 702mn in 2015, despite population increase |
| China change in poverty | 84% in extreme poverty 1980, now 12% in 2010 |
| N Korea, S Korea difference | 6cm average height increase in S Korea due to good living conditions |
| ECHR impact on UK | Changed 2000 section 44 of Terrorism Act |
| Internation community resolve conflict | Russian sanctions 2022, Iraq no fly zone 1991by UK and USA, ICC can try at international level |
| When did UN fail to act | Rwandan genocide 1994, 800,000 Tutsis killed, Taliban in Afghan, USA + China + Russia have not signed up to ICC |
| UN | Since 1945, 193 members (2017) |
| ICJ | NOT human rights, 9 years terms, Rulings are binding, members can ignore rulings, territory disputs |
| Israeli 2004 defy ICJ | 2004 Israeli built security fence around west bank, sitll there today |
| UN Parliament / General Assembly | One vote per state, 193 members, meet once a year, symbolic resolutions, votes on major issues, time consuming as 2/3 majority needed |
| GA set up | Millennium Development Goals and 2015 Sustainable Development goals agreed |
| Security Council | 5 permanent members with veto, 10 non permanent members, peacekeepings, issues binding resolutions, issues sanctions and military actions |
| Economic and Social Council | 54 members, oversees WHO and UNICEF |
| NATO | 1949, 28 members, protect Europe from military threat of Soviety Union |
| Example of collective security | Article 5 |
| When was article 5 used? | After 9/11 |
| First operations start | 1995, despite being set up after WW2 |
| USA provides how much of NATO? | 70% of funds |
| G7 | 1976, Russia kicked 2014 after Crimea annex, no budget, informal approach, outdated |