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The United Nations As a Permanent World Organization
THE UNITED NATIONS AS A PERMANENT WORLD ORGANIZATION By ERIK COLBAN Former Norvegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Even those of us, who stille are young, have lived in the time of the Yeague of Nations. We know that that attempt to create a lasting world organization for peace and friendly collaboration be- tween the peoples did not succeed. We now have the United Nations. Is there a prospect that this new attempt, with the same purpose, will prove more capable of surviving? To clear our minds on this question we should begin by con- sidering on general lines the tasks of the organization. We shall then be in a better position to see, how it must be constructed so as to be able. to perform these tasks and survive. The tasks are two-fold: political and non-political. Two world - wars made it natural to place the political task - to secure peace in the foreground both in the Covenant of the League of Nations and in the Charter of the United Nations. But both documents gave also the organization the task to solve economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems. Let us first examine the political task: consideration and settle- ment of international disputes. On this subject the system embodied in the Charter of the United Nations is in general the same as that of the Covenant of the League of Nations: the Member States undertake to stand one for all and all for one against the State which violates the peace. The system failed in the days of the League, because the States which violated the peace were Great Powers and because the United States of America remained outside the orga- nization. -
Internasjonal Politikk [2·07]
[2·07] politikk Internasjonal Forord: Internasjonal politikk 70 år [2·07] Internasjonal Birgitte Kjos Fonn Internasjonal Politikk i Norge. En disiplins fremvekst politikk i første halvdel av 1900-tallet Halvard Leira & Iver B. Neumann Internasjonal politikk og Forsvaret. Internasjonalisering IP-fagets norske historie og akademisering av den militære utdanningen Nina Græger IP i forsvarsutdanningen Tekst og kontekst. John Sanness om Vietnam og Afghanistan Oddbjørn Melle Tekst og tolkning hos John Sanness Da Diez de Abril kom til verden – og menneske- rettighetene kom til Diez de Abril Nye nettverk, ny internasjonal politikk Roy Krøvel Aktuelt: «Sakkyndig og objektiv oplysning – og skrevet i Internasjonal politikk 70 år en populær form» – Internasjonal politikk 70 år Birgitte Kjos Fonn Debatt: Helhetsperspektiver på norsk utenrikspolitikk Sverre Lodgaard Norske selvbilder – norsk utenrikspolitikk Halvard Leira Selvbilder med begrensninger Morten Aasland Bokspalte Nr. 2 - 2007 65. Årgang Summaries Norwegian Institute Norsk of International Utenrikspolitisk ISSN 0020-577X Affairs Institutt Internasjonal politikk [retningslinjer for manus] Artiklene bør ikke overskride 25 sider A 4, dobbel linjeavstand, eller 45 000 tegn inkludert mellomrom. Internasjonal politikk tar ikke inn bidrag som samtidig publiseres i andre Norden- baserte publikasjoner. Kun manus på norsk, dansk eller svensk mottas. Endelige bidrag leveres formatert for PC. Oppgi system og nødvendige spesifikasjoner. I. Anbefalt format for Til kildehenvisninger brukes forfatternavn -
1 Introduction
Notes 1 Introduction 1. Donald Macintyre, Narvik (London: Evans, 1959), p. 15. 2. See Olav Riste, The Neutral Ally: Norway’s Relations with Belligerent Powers in the First World War (London: Allen and Unwin, 1965). 3. Reflections of the C-in-C Navy on the Outbreak of War, 3 September 1939, The Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939–45 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990), pp. 37–38. 4. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 10 October 1939, in ibid. p. 47. 5. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 8 December 1939, Minutes of a Conference with Herr Hauglin and Herr Quisling on 11 December 1939 and Report of the C-in-C Navy, 12 December 1939 in ibid. pp. 63–67. 6. MGFA, Nichols Bohemia, n 172/14, H. W. Schmidt to Admiral Bohemia, 31 January 1955 cited by Francois Kersaudy, Norway, 1940 (London: Arrow, 1990), p. 42. 7. See Andrew Lambert, ‘Seapower 1939–40: Churchill and the Strategic Origins of the Battle of the Atlantic, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (1994), pp. 86–108. 8. For the importance of Swedish iron ore see Thomas Munch-Petersen, The Strategy of Phoney War (Stockholm: Militärhistoriska Förlaget, 1981). 9. Churchill, The Second World War, I, p. 463. 10. See Richard Wiggan, Hunt the Altmark (London: Hale, 1982). 11. TMI, Tome XV, Déposition de l’amiral Raeder, 17 May 1946 cited by Kersaudy, p. 44. 12. Kersaudy, p. 81. 13. Johannes Andenæs, Olav Riste and Magne Skodvin, Norway and the Second World War (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1966), p. -
Who Needs Norwegians?" Explaining the Oslo Back Channel: Norway’S Political Past in the Middle East
Evaluation Report 9/2000 Hilde Henriksen Waage "Norwegians? Who needs Norwegians?" Explaining the Oslo Back Channel: Norway’s Political Past in the Middle East A report prepared by PRIO International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Institutt for fredsforskning Responsibility for the contents and presentation of findings and recommendations rests with the author. The views and opinions expressed in the report do not necessarily correspond with the views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Preface In September 1998, I was commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out a preliminary study looking into Norway’s role in the Middle East. According to the agreement with the Ministry, the study should focus on the years prior to 1993 and examine whether Norway’s political past in the Middle East – and, not least, the mediating and confidence-building efforts of Norwegians prior to the opening of the secret Oslo Back Channel – had had any influence on the process that followed. The study should also try to answer the question ‘Why Norway?’ – that is, what had made Norway, of all countries, suitable for such an extraordinary task? The work on the study started on 15 September 1998. The date of submission was stipulated as 15 April 2000. This was achieved. The following report is based on recently declassified and partly still classified documents (to which I was granted access) at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the verbatim records of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, records of government proceedings and the Norwegian Parliament, Labour Party Archives, documents from the US State Department and the Socialist International – to mention the most important. -
FABRICATING FIDELITY: NATION-BUILDING, INTERNATIONAL LAW, and the GREEK-TURKISH POPULATION EXCHANGE by Umut Özsu a Thesis
FABRICATING FIDELITY: NATION-BUILDING, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE GREEK-TURKISH POPULATION EXCHANGE by Umut Özsu A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Juridical Sciences Faculty of Law University of Toronto © Copyright by Umut Özsu (2011) Abstract FABRICATING FIDELITY: NATION-BUILDING, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE GREEK-TURKISH POPULATION EXCHANGE Umut Özsu Doctor of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) Faculty of Law University of Toronto 2011 This dissertation concerns a crucial episode in the international legal history of nation-building: the Greek-Turkish population exchange. Supported by Athens and Ankara, and implemented largely by the League of Nations, the population exchange showcased the new pragmatism of the post-1919 order, an increased willingness to adapt legal doctrine to local conditions. It also exemplified a new mode of non-military nation-building, one initially designed for sovereign but politico-economically weak states on the semi-periphery of the international legal order. The chief aim here, I argue, was not to organize plebiscites, channel self-determination claims, or install protective mechanisms for vulnerable minorities Ŕ all familiar features of the Allied Powers‟ management of imperial disintegration in central and eastern Europe after the First World War. Nor was the objective to restructure a given economy and society from top to bottom, generating an entirely new legal order in the process; this had often been the case with colonialism in Asia and Africa, and would characterize much of the mandates system ii throughout the interwar years. Instead, the goal was to deploy a unique mechanism Ŕ not entirely in conformity with European practice, but also distinct from non-European governance regimes Ŕ to reshape the demographic composition of Greece and Turkey. -
Den Lange Veien Til Genéve
81 Halldor Heidal Den lange veien til Genéve Norsk arbeiderbevegelse og ILO 1920 -1934 Denne artikkelen tar for seg norske fagorganisasjoners og de norske arbeiderpartienes holdning til Den internasjonale ar beidsorganisasjon (ILO) i åra 1920-1934. I Norge ble ILO i denne perioden vanligvis kalt Arbeidsbyrået i Genf etter Det internasjonale arbeidsbyrå, som er organisasjonens sekreta riat, og som med unntak for åra 1940-48 har holdt til i Genéve. ILO ble opprettet i april 1919 som en del av Folkeforbundet og derfor også som en del av fredsoppgjøret etter 1. verdens krig. Formålet med denne organisasjonen var å fremme samar beidet mellom landene innenfor arbeidslivet og sosialpolitik ken, og det viktigste virkemidlet skulle være å få i stand bindende avtaler mellom statene, konvensjoner, om slike saker som reduksjon av barnearbeid, kortere arbeidstid, sik kerhet og helse på arbeidsplassen, arbeidstilsyn og trygder. Dersom de forskjellige land gjennom slike avtaler forpliktet seg til å oppfylle visse minstekrav i arbeidsforhold, ville bedringen i arbeidernes kår og de økte produksjonskostnader som de mente det ville føre til, komme noenlunde samtidig i de forskjellige land. Dermed ville de land som innførte forbe dringer i arbeidslivet, ikke bli stilt dårligere enn andre i den internasjonale konkurransen. Internasjonal arbeiderlovgiv- ning (eller internasjonal lovgivning for arbeidslivet) var det uttrykket som ble brukt om denne formen for mellomfolkelig samarbeid. Et nytt innslag i dette samarbeidet var at repre sentanter for ikke-statlige organisasjoner, dvs. sammenslut ninger av arbeidsgivere og arbeidstakere skulle delta i den nye organisasjonen med stort sett samme rettigheter som repre sentantene for statsmyndighetene i medlemslandene. -
Halvard Lange, December 11, 1956; (C-VR(56)69) Gaetano Martino
Halvard M. Lange Born 16 September 1902. Died 19 May 1970. Educated in Oslo and in London, Lange was a professor at several universities during the 1930s, lecturing on modern and economic history. Originally a member of the Social Democrat Party, Lange became a member of the National Executive of the Labour Party in 1933, ultimately serving as the Party’s historian. During the war, Lange was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1940, released in June 1941, re-arrested in August 1942 and spent the rest of the war in concentration camps. Upon his return to Norway in 1945, he served as a full member of the Norwegian Parliament’s Nobel Committee. He was appointed Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1946 and would remain in that office until 1965. A strong supporter of Western alignment, Lange had arguably been the most influential figure in Scandinavia pushing for both Norway and Denmark to join NATO and ultimately signing the North Atlantic Treaty on behalf of his country on 4 April 1949. “The only means of arriving at just solutions, as we see it, is through negotiation, through diplomac y…” Halvard Lange, December 11, 1956; (C-VR(56)69) Gaetano Martino Born 25 November 1900. Died 21 July 1967. A former physician and an internationally renowned Professor of Human Physiology, Martino was a distinguished member of many Italian and foreign academies and scientific societies. A Dean of the University of Messina (1943-1957) and the University of Rome (1966-1967), he devoted a significant part of his work to the issue of university education as a tool to encourage the teaching and dissemination of a European awareness. -
Aspects Regarding the Svalbard Demilitarisation in Relation to Norway Joining the Atlantic Alliance in 1949, and Reflections On
Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies Vol. 2 Issue 2 Aspects regarding the Svalbard demilitarisation in relation to Norway joining the Atlantic Alliance in 1949, and reflections on the Åland Islands’ demilitarised and neutralised status in the event of a Finnish NATO accession Åsa Gustafsson Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies, 2(2) 2018, 10–53 URL: http://jass.ax/volume-2-issue-2-Gustafsson/ 10 Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies Vol. 2 Issue 2 Abstract The article strives to explore certain aspects regarding the Svalbard demilitarisation in relation to Norway joining the Atlantic Alliance, which could be of interest in relation to the Åland Islands’ status as demilitarised and neutralised in a situation where Finland would decide to join NATO – although the Svalbard and the Åland Islands’ legal regimes are sui generis regimes, differing for a number of fundamental reasons, as parts of a two larger regimes that differ historically, of dissimilar construction and disparate in nature. Taking a closer look at the state of the Svalbard legal regime around the time when Norway joined the Atlantic Alliance in 1949 leads to the conclusion that there were threats towards it from 1944–1947, followed by a reconfirmation of the security provisions in the Svalbard Treaty. Arguably the Åland Islands’ legal regime of today is more robust. Seemingly, the application of ‘NATO’s’ arts. 4 and 5 have so far not had any ties to Svalbard. The leeway for interpretation of treaty provisions is arguably of wider scope in the Svalbard case than in the Ålandic one. Any kind of reservation for the Svalbard status at the time of Norway joining the Atlantic Alliance was not considered. -
Med Sykkel Til Sinai
Med sykkel til Sinai Norges deltagelse i FNs første fredsbevarende styrke – fredsidealisme eller ivaretakelse av egeninteresser? Christine Due Ose Våren 2010 Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie Universitetet i Oslo ii Forord Da jeg våren 2008 fikk se en ferdig trykt masteroppgave i historie, var jeg ikke sikker på om jeg skulle komme i mål med min egen. Men nå er jeg framme ved målet, og det kan jeg, i tillegg til meg selv, også takke mange rundt meg for. Først vil jeg takke min veileder Hilde Henriksen Waage for inspirasjon til å aldri gi opp – selv når det var ytterst vanskelig å finne motivasjon nok til å fortsette. Å arbeide med hennes masterstudenter har vært en nyttig, og ikke minst veldig hyggelig, erfaring. Mange bibliotekarer og arkivarer skal ha anerkjennelse for den viktige jobben de gjør for at vi studenter skal kunne lete fram spennende, og mindre spennende, informasjon om nær og fjern fortid. Spesielt skal Stortingsbiblioteket og arkivet der ha stor ros for utmerket service og et fantastisk saksarkiv. Bibliotekarene på Nobelinstituttet er en oppmuntring i seg selv, og skal ha stor takk for lang lånetid og mange raske ben til hyllene for å hente fram spennende, gjerne internasjonal, litteratur til meg. Dernest vil jeg takke Maria, Maren, Mari og Hilde for mange fine stunder på NHAs hus – på lesesalen, i kantina og på pauserommet – og ellers. Jeg håper det blir mange flere av dem! Takk for inspirasjon, oppmuntring, smil og latter gjennom denne til tider vanskelige, men også morsomme prosessen. Familien min, mamma og pappa, søstre, besteforeldre, tante og onkel, hadde jeg ikke klart meg uten, og det hadde ikke blitt mange ferdigskrevne sider uten deres støtte. -
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE Repository
Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE Cadmus, on DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION “Challenge and Response in Western Europe: BADIA FIESOLANA, SAN DOMENICO (F I) University Project directed by Professor Alan Milward Access the Origins ofthe European Community (1945 • 1950)” European Open Project Paper No. 24 Author(s). Available The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. This paper should not be reproduced whole in or in part Cadmus, on University without without prior permission of the author. Access Printed in Italy Decemberin 1986 European University Institute I I - 50016 San Domenico (FI) European Open Badia Fiasolana (C) Helge(C) Pharo Author(s). Available Italy The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European European Integration. The Third Force, Atlanticism and Norwegian Attitudes Towards Institute. Cadmus, on University Access European Department of History Open HELGE 0. PHARO Oslo University Author(s). Available The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised Repository. Research Institute University European Institute. Cadmus, on University Access European Open Author(s). Available The 2020. © in Library EUI the by produced version Digitised -1- I. Introduction. During the first postwar decade the Norwegian Labor govern ments looked upon efforts towards European integration with Repository. considerable uneasiness. Economic and political integration might in itself be considered a welcome contribution towards strengthening the position of Europe - politically and eco Research nomically as well as militarily. The Labor government, however, did not relish the probable implications of Institute European integration for Norwegian foreign and economic policies. -
Norsk+Utenrikspolitisk+Bibliografi.Pdf (653.6Kb)
0 Norsk utenrikspolitisk bibliografi (1905–2005) Versjon 1.3.1 (des. 06) ved Andreas Løvold & Halvard Leira1 Introduksjon......................................................................................................................................3 1. Utenrikspolitisk historie ................................................................................................................4 2. Generell norsk utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk .............................................................................9 3. Norsk utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitisk tenkning: Ideologi og småstatsstrategi .......................... 13 4. Utenrikspolitiske institusjoner og beslutningspraksiser............................................................. 16 5. Sikkerhetspolitiske relasjoner: NATO, USA, Sovjet/Russland, Europa og Norden..................25 6. Multilaterale relasjoner: FN og internasjonale militære oppdrag...............................................36 7. Regionale relasjoner: Europa og Norden....................................................................................38 8. Bilaterale relasjoner: Verden........................................................................................................43 9. Utenriksøkonomiske relasjoner: Ressurser, handel og finans ....................................................44 10. Sørpolitiske relasjoner: Bistand, fred, demokrati og menneskerettigheter ...............................49 11. Memoarer, intervjuer og biografier ...........................................................................................55 -
Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization, Including Annexes 9
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT HELD AT HAVANA, CUBA FROM NOVEMBER 21, 1947, TO MARCH 24, 1948 _______________ FINAL ACT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS INTERIM COMMISSION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ORGANIZATION LAKE SUCCESS, NEW YORK APRIL, 1948 - 2 - The present edition of the Final Act and Related Documents has been reproduced from the text of the signature copy and is identical with that contained in United Nations document E/Conf. 2/78. This edition has been issued in larger format in order to facilitate its use by members of the Interim Commission. - 3 - FINAL ACT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT - 4 - TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. Final Act of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment VII II. Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization, including Annexes 9 III. Resolutions adopted by the Conference 117 - 5 - FINAL ACT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, by a resolution dated February 18, 1946, resolved to call an International Conference on Trade and Employment for the purpose of promoting the expansion of the production, exchange and consumption of goods. The Conference, which met at Havana on November 21, 1947, and ended on March 24, 1948, drew up the Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization to be submitted to the Governments represented. The text of the Charter in the English and French languages is annexed hereto and is hereby authenticated. The authentic text of the Charter in the Chinese, Russian and Spanish languages will be established by the Interim Commission of the International Trade Organization, in accordance with the procedure approved by the Conference.