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Fifty years ago the Second World War ended. The UN Charter was born. It was a multilateral treaty asserting the principle of equality of all sovereignties; at the same time negating this principle, by naming five major powers permanent as veto-wielding members of the Security Council. Three developments followed.
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Singh, S.K. (1998). An Asian Perspective on the United Nations System. In: Thakur, R. (eds) Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26336-3_11
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