The United Nations claims to exist in order to maintain
international peace and security, providing a space within which
all states can work together. But why, then, does the UN invoke its
responsibility to protect through humanitarian intervention in some
instances but not others? Why is it that five states have the power
to decide whether or not to intervene? This book challenges the
dominant narrative of the UN as an institution of equality and
progress by analyzing the colonial origins of the organization and
revealing the unequal power relations it has perpetuated. Harsant
argues that the United Nations is unable to fulfill its claims
around the protection of international peace and security due to
its very structure and the privilege of certain states. Moreover,
through a rigorous examination of the history of the UN and how
those structures came to be, she argues that the privilege afforded
to these states is the result of power relations established
through the colonial encounter. In order to understand the pressing
contemporary issues of how the United Nations operates,
particularly the Security Council, this book discusses issues of
power and sovereignty by de-silencing the narratives of resistance
and reconstructing a history of the United Nations that takes this
colonial and anti-colonial relationship into account. This is a
bold challenge to the eurocentrism that dominates International
Relations discourse and a call to better understand the
colonialism's role in preserving the existing global order.
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