How Have Great Powers Used Their Influence to Violate the Prohibition of Use of Force for the United Nations Charter?

Charles Z Lu

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/2024.25007

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How Have Great Powers Used Their Influence to Violate the Prohibition of Use of Force for the United Nations Charter?

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How Have Great Powers Used Their Influence to Violate the Prohibition of Use of Force for the United Nations Charter?

Charles Z Lu ^1*

¹ Walter Johnson High School

^*Corresponding author: c1270438@gmail.com

Published on 11 July 2025

LNEP Vol.108

ISSN (Print): 2753-7056

ISSN (Online): 2753-7048

ISBN (Print): 978-1-80590-277-5

ISBN (Online): 978-1-80590-278-2

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Abstract

This article demonstrates the ability of nations with great power to ignore structural barriers implemented, using such to rectify action directed to be in positive correlation to their interests. While the original barriers were implemented by limiting factors such as the United Nations, the lack of effectiveness was exemplified by rooted historical interdictions alongside policies and rules commodified to benefit great powers. An important goal of great powers would be to develop these modern structures, a tool for neo-imperialist standings, eliminating justification and logic by developing structures embodying their own structure. While a direct approach to eliminate such a mindset developed by great powers includes a solution from the United Nations themselves, this paper offers a junction in which the development of decolonizing thought must be accepted and integrated within the United Nations. As such, later in the paper, I suggest that the implementation of a decolonial mindset would act as a prerequisite to an effective curtailment of modern great powers. Further, great powers must be scrutinized under the historical precedent of established systems permitting abuse of power and possible reform regarding solutions to be of progressive movement in the direction of decolonization. To decolonize the United Nations through the removal of the idealization of the state in conjunction with the individual would be vital reform. Scrutinizing such states to end the perpetuation of the settler state corroborates the decolonial mission.

Keywords:

Use of Force, Great Power Nations, Decolonization, United Nations

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Cite this article

Lu,C.Z. (2025). How Have Great Powers Used Their Influence to Violate the Prohibition of Use of Force for the United Nations Charter?. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,108,53-61.

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