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29 Int'l Conciliation 231 (1951-1952)
Expanding Role of the General Assembly: The Maintenance of International Peace and Security

handle is hein.journals/intcon29 and id is 243 raw text is: EXPANDING ROLE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Maintenance of International Peace and Security By LELAND M. GOODRICH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Looking at the problem of the maintenance of peace and security from a general historical point of view, we can say that when the common authority in the community is relatively weak and when the forces making for anarchy and violence are strong, the first concern is, of necessity, with the maintenance of some kind of peace and order. Only when this authority becomes stronger can it impose upon disputing parties and upon con- flicting interests, first the acceptance of the procedures of peace- ful settlement of disputes and then the obligation to accept judgments that may be handed down by organs of the common authority. Finally, only when the common authority has devel- oped to the point where its power is definitely supreme can it deal in a positive and constructive way with relations between individuals as well as between states with a view to so oraering those relations in the interest of some concept of justice that the reasons for resort to force and violence will be largely eliminated. The historical development of institutions and procedures for the maintenance of international peace and security tend to follow this general pattern. If we think only in terms of the developments of the last 150 years, we find that the first insti- tutions and procedures to develop and to assume an important role in the functioning of the modern state system were those which had as their primary purpose the keeping of the peace. 231

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