The Veto and the Architecture of Global Paralysis

In a single moment in a Security Council chamber, one raised hand silenced fourteen others—and the world. The UN veto, born from the ashes of the League of Nations and forged by Stalin’s insistence at San Francisco, has been used over three hundred times to block action, shield allies, and paralyse the institution created to maintain peace.

In this meticulously researched and morally uncompromising essay, Theo Dorus traces the veto’s history from its origins in 1945 to its catastrophic consequences in Gaza, Ukraine, and Syria, and asks the uncomfortable question that the permanent five have spent eighty years evading: what is this power for, and who does it really serve?

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