Admission to the United Nations: Charter Article 4 and the Rise of Universal Organization
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The United Nations began as an alliance
during World War II. Eventually, however, the UN came to approximate a universal
organization - i.e., open to and aspiring to include all States. This presents a
legal question, for Article 4 of the Charter contains substantive criteria to
limit admission of States to the UN and no formal amendment has touched that
part of the Charter. This book gives an up-to-date account of admission to the
UN, from the 1950s logjam through on-going controversies like Kosovo and Taiwan.
With reference to Charter law, the book considers how Article 4 came to
accommodate universality and what the future of a universal organization in a
world of politically diverse States might be.
