United Nations Security Council

Question

Instructions

Pick one of the major organs of the UN that is discussed in the reading.  Briefly describe the makeup of that part of the UN and discuss the role that it is supposed to play in functioning of the organization as a whole.  Finally, discuss your opinion of the primary challenges that part of the UN faces.

Major organs: 

The United Nations consists of six major organs, described in this section:

The Security Council

The General Assembly

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

The Secretariat

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) The Trusteeship Council

Summary–of required readings, including key ideas, concepts, and questions to be used as a foundation for the analysis. In your summary, you can demonstrate that you read carefully and thoroughly.A good summary contains Three I’s (Fraser and Davidson 2012): identifyan idea or claim in the reading; illustrate the idea with sufficient evidence from the text; and interpret the idea in light of the evidence. The absence of sufficient textual evidence tends to make summaries too general, vague, or incomplete. So, make sure your summary offers sufficient details from the text to illustrate all the ideas you identify.

Analysis–comparison and contrast of ideas, concepts, and questions within and between the readings. In your analysis, you demonstrate your ability to fully address or answer the questions I posed in the prompt. This is where you can demonstrate your understanding of the material and that you are thinking for yourself. Therefore, no external sources can be accepted for the analysis because it must be based on your close reading of the required texts.

Coherence–this means organized, step-by-step, progression of ideas. In other words, ideas should flow in orderly fashion from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. Coherence is very important because it helps you to demonstrate that you read carefully and fully, and that you can impose order on your thoughts –thus making your claims and arguments easy to follow for the reader. Otherwise, good ideas or claims go to waste because they become disconnected or fragmented and the reader gets lost.

Clarity–this refers to grammar, mechanics, and style. Poorly writtensentences make it difficult for your readers to understand your arguments and thus for you toget your point across.Poorly written sentences can be awkward, cumbersome or difficult to read, incomplete, or contain comma splices, for example. They may also include improper quoting, or poor balance between paraphrasing and quoting, as well as include commonly confused words