UN Security Council decision-making: testing the bribery hypothesis

Abstract

Liberal-Institutionalism and Structural Realism expectations about international organizations are confronted by looking at if and how US-controlled international aid is granted, and particularly if it is related or not to political affinity and to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) non-permanent membership. A preliminary assessment suggests that these relations only hold for the period of the Cold War, and, even then, only when UNSC non-permanent membership is in years in which the Security Council was deemed very important.

Keywords

• processo de tomada de decisão
• comportamento das grandes potências
• assistência internacional
• organizações internacionais
• teoria das Relações Internacionais
• Institucionalismo Liberal
• Realismo Estrutural
• Organização das Nações Unidas
• Assembleia Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas
• Conselho de Segurança da Organização das Nações Unidas