International & Other
Essays on international law and on questions that do not sit neatly inside any single Indian subject. What is here concerns the architecture of institutions rather than their politics: how a power is entrenched, what it takes to remove it, and why some rules are written so that they cannot be unwritten by the people they constrain.
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The UN Veto Cannot Be Abolished Without the Veto Powers’ Consent
The five permanent members hold a veto over resolutions, and, through Article 108, a veto over abolishing the veto itself.