2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Sovereignty: The UN and the Westphalian Legacy
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The 50 international delegates who assembled in 1945 in San Francisco to vote on the UN Charter recognized that there the international system that had produced two world wars in the space of 30 years needed to be radically rethought. What they were not sure about was what type of governing body would emerge—would it be a dictatorship of the big five who would run roughshod over the small powers’ hard-won efforts to establish their own independence, or would it be another global debating chamber, as impotent in the face of crisis as the discredited League of Nations?