D6HW4 Annotated Bibliography

Masci, David. "The United Nations and Global Security." CQ Researcher. 27 FEB 2004. 01 OCT 2007.
< http://library.cqpress.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2004022700&type=hitlist&num=0& >.

I found this article using CQ researcher. It is a general article on the U.N. with a specific focus on it's history, failures, today, and possible changes. This article gave me a great deal of information that I needed to help me understand the U.N.'s policies and what kind of action they might take in the future. It brough to light what the U.N. is good at and what it isn't and that brings up some interesting ideas on what changes could be made. Specifically the U.N. has been fairly succeseful in building infrastructures in new countries and as a forum for international disputes. It's economic sanctions can also be effective but only when they have the support of the majority (specifically the majority of the countries on the Security Council.) The big thing that the U.N. has not been very effective with is peacekeeping in specific reference to genocide and ethnic wars. However organizations such as NATO and the United states have been fairly effective in dealing with these issues due to the fact that they take a more aggressive stance in comparison to the U.N.'s narrowly defined and essentialy useless peacekeeping missions.

Hoge, Warren. "Iran's President Vows to Ignore U.N. Measures." The New York Times. 26 Sep. 2007. 02 Jan. 2007.
< http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/world/26nations.html ex=1206417600&en=efe5f1a530316f2d&ei=5087&excamp=GGGNahmadinejadun. >

Fresh article written September 25th after Iranian President Mahamoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the U.N. I found this article in the online New York Times and have seen similar articles in other press institutions. Basically it outlines Ahmadinejad's adress to the U.N. It states that the Iranian government has reached an agreement with the IAEA (Internal Atomic Energy Agency) to answer questions that they had repeatedly refused to reveal to the agencies Nuclear Inspectors. Due to this President Ahmadinejad stated that the matter is "closed" and that his country will ignore any demands from the U.N. Security council. The President stated that his country see's the matter as existing in the IAEA's jurisdiction and that the Security Council is merely a pawn of the "arrogant powers." One thing I want to do after reading this article is find information on the deal Iran made with the IAEA and get the details, criticisms, and a realistic assessement of what it could accomplish.

"Communication dated 27 August 2007 from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Agency concerning the text of the "Understandings of the Islamic Republic ofr Iran and the IAEA on the Modalities of Resolution of the Outstanding Issues"." IAEA. 27 AUG 2007. 04 OCT 2007. < http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/agreementoutstanding.pdf. >

This is basically and outline of the agreement between the IAEA and Iran on August 27, 2007. I found this using usa.gov search engines. The agreement was made public so I was able to get a look at it. For quick understanding skip to the end at "General Understandings." Basically the agreement outlines the IAEA's and Iran's plan to resolve all of the IAEA's outstanding issues with the Iranian nuclear program. This is major as it, assuming Iran follows through and that they aren't doing something behind the IAEA's back which is a reasonable suspicion, removes most of the U.N. and U.S.'s case against Iran concerning their nuclear program. If things go down as outline in the agreement then the IAEA will no longer have any problems with Iran's nuclear programs. The IAEA is supposed to have a report to the U.N. in November on it's progress.