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  • United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies- aims and functioning; need for UN reforms.
    • United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record
      • Discuss the structure and Functions of UNSC.
      • Discuss the 'Sustainable Development Goals' as set by the United Nations.
      • In what way does the predominance of the USA in the UN funding affect the decision-making?
      • Do you think that sustainable development goals are really attainable by 2030?
      • Discuss the relevance of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on the security of women in conflict zones.
      • Do you agree with the view that despite the limitations in the functioning of the UN, it has distinguished and unique achievements to its credit?
      • What are the real objectives of Millennium Development Goals (MDG)? Do you think that MDGs have been able to achieve the desired goals of poverty alleviation and sustainable development?
      • How far the efforts to maintain international order in the post-Cold War period by the UN have been successful?
      • “The UN today is more of a social service organisation than an exclusively security-oriented body.” Critically examine.
      • Analyse critically the major changes in the role of the United Nations (UN) since the onset of the new millennium.
      • Comment: The U.N. General Assembly Millennium Summit (Sept. 2000)
      • Write a critical essay on the role of the Third World in international relations, especially in the United Nations.
      • Judged from the past, UN does not hold much promise to free the Third World from the clutches of neo-imperialism. Elucidate.
      • “From the start, the United Nations became a microcosm of world politics, with developments within the institution tending to mirror the atmosphere and happenings outside its walls.” Comment.
    • Specialized UN agencies- aims and functioning
    • International Court of Justice
      • What is the structure and functions of International Court of Justice.
      • Describe the composition of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Discuss its voluntary jurisdiction.
      • Evaluate the role of the International Court of Justice in inter-State disputes.
      • Comment: International Court of Justice.
      • Comment: The compulsory jurisdiction clause under the statute of the International Court of Justice.
      • Comment: Role of international Law in international cooperation.
      • Comment: Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.
      • Comment: International Court of Justice.
    • “Few agencies of International co-operation have been more successful in tending to the welfare of humanity than the I.L.O.” Discuss the organisation and activities of the International Labour Organisation in the light of the above statement.
    • World Bank and IMF
      • How are the rising powers challenging the USA and Western dominance in the IMF and the World Bank?
      • “The IMF, World Bank, G-7, GATT and other structures are designed to serve the interests of TNCs, Banks and investment firms in a “New Imperial age.” Substantiate with examples of governance of new world order.
      • How far are the world governance mechanisms, dominated by IMF and World Bank, legitimate and relevant? What measures do you suggest to improve their effectiveness in global governance?
      • Explain the role of non-state actors, like IMF, World Bank, European Union and MNCs, in modulating and transforming the broad dynamics of international relations.
      • Comment: IMF and India’s development
      • Comment: India and the IMF
    • Need for UN Reforms
      • What measures have been undertaken by the United Nations for its reforms?
      • Discuss the significance and urgency of the UN Security Council reforms. Explain the relevance of the reform proposals made by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the developing countries.
      • Do you endorse that the United Nations needs major changes in its structures and functioning? Suggest the changes for efficient improvements.
      • Has the reform of the economic and social arrangements of the United Nations been effective?
      • Argue a case for U.N. reform in the context of changing global milieu.
      • How far have the UN reform efforts of 2004–05 transformed the concept of ‘Sovereignty’ as a fundamental principle of International Law? Do you think that UN reforms discourse represents a ‘biopolitical reprogramming’ of contemporary sovereignty and global governance? (250 words)
      • What are the major impediments to UN Security Council reform?
      • Analyse the challenges and prospects of the UNO in becoming a world state.
      • “The United Nations is not political system acting in a vacuum: nor does it operate above international system.” Comment.
      • ‘The UN has done well but not well enough.’ Comment.
  2. PYQs and Practice Questions
  3. UPSC Optionals
  4. PSIR Optional
  5. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies- aims and functioning; need for UN reforms.
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