The role of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security: an analysis of the most important theoretical approaches

Abstract EN

The present study focuses on the status of maintaining international peace and security in addition to its components within international relations theories, as well as an attempt to extrapolate the united nations' stance on international relations alongside its role in achieving international peace and security.

On this basis, this research will illuminate the notion of peace and security within the united nations framework, focusing on the UN' role in attaining international peace and security in accordance with its charter, particularly chapter VI and VII.

Furthermore, the research sheds light on the most prominent theoritical perspectives in international relations which provide an explanation for the united nations' status and role.

The latter is devided into positions: one that denies the UN any role in international relations in general, and in maintaining international peace and security in particular, and entrusts it to states, and the other which emphasize the UN' role alongside states in maintaining international peace and security.