Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

11-29-2012

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; PSN Subject Matter eJournals; Social Insurance Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Political Institutions: International Institutions eJournals; International Law & Trade eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Political Institutions eJournals; Public International Law eJournals; Political Science Network

Abstract

This article will examine the United Nations Security Council's efforts to implement preserve and universalize the obligations of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty This discussion will lead to questions regarding the Security Council's role and authority in the international legal system and ultimately to a consideration of how the international legal system can better guarantee that the Security Council does not exercise an unwarranted degree of legal power at the expense of the member states of the United Nations

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