Nuclear Proliferation
This class of weapon is intended to deter the enemy from using nuclear weapons.
Strategic Nuclear Weapons
Positively, especially if these regional organizations uphold UN ideals.
This was originally written by the US and maintains that all states shall refrain from the threat of or use of force in international relations.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
This is describes as a bilateral or multilateral agreement to provide some element of security to the signatories.
Alliance
The majority of private security companies specialize in this:
Logistical support
This is the easiest weapon design often first attempted by developing nuclear powers.
Gun-type weapon
What did the three types of "Worlds" originally mean?
First - US aligned;
Second - USSR aligned;
Third - Neutral
This endows the UN Security Council with 'coercive powers.'
Chapter VII of the UN Charter
This organization has often been the enforcement arm of the UNSC.
NATO
The invasion of this country saw a huge increase in the number of PMSCs employed by the temporary government.
Iraq
This is the constellation of bombers, missiles, and submarines that form the foundation of the US deterrence.
The Nuclear Triad
NATO, SEATO, and CENTO are described as this type of regional institution:
Collective Defense Agreements
This UN organ can pass non-binding resolutions through member votes.
The General Assembly
These alliances are rare and generally short lived.
Offensive alliances.
This was the PMSC that was caught exploiting vulnerable populations in Bosnia and has yet to be punished for their crimes.
DynCorp
This treaty seeks to limit nuclear proliferation but offers help with peaceful nuclear power.
The Non-Proliferation Treat (NPT)
The persistence of intergovernmental organizations between governments is an aspect of this theory of alliance formation.
Institutionalization
This chapter of the UN charter allows this organ to deploy peacekeeping forces.
Chapter VII; the UNSC
The most prominent international explanations for why military alliances form, are associated with this school of IR theory (this paradigm).
Realism. Balance of Power theory.
This document was the first UN evaluation of Peace Keeping Operations.
Brahimi Report
This person founded the Pakistani network and is credited with the creation of its nuclear weaponry.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Explain the Clash of Civilizations and how this theory might relate to regional organization formation in the future.
This is the notion that civilizations will be in conflict over religious/cultural ideology in the future. Theorists contend we should expect regional organizations or alliances to form amongst civilizational blocs such as "Western," "Orthodox" or "Islamic."
Explain some of the problems, from an institutional perspective, as to why the UN cannot easily stop the war in Ukraine.
Russia's seat on the UNSC; without a united security council, the UN can be extremely slow or unable to act. Peacekeeping operations need a united political will. Nuclear weapons are potentially in play.
Explain the two theories of alliance persistence we have thus far discussed.
Institutionalization - "Some alliances may inherit quasi-governmental characteristics or develop them over time.They are formed by governments who want to share a burden or solve a problem collectively."
Socialization - "Alliances built through a common identity. Members are in constant contact with one another and grow together. Ideational flows and political communities can be created."
Explain the potential benefits and detriments of common utilization of PMSCs.
Pros - Might be quicker to deploy. Cost effective. Flexible in application.
Cons - Little accountability. Loyal to employer only. Organizational differences. Weakens the state's monopoly on violence?