(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ
Journal: CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York)
Year: 2018

The conventional wisdom is that the international system in the Cold War was defined by the struggle between East and West. While this was certainly the case, voting patterns in the UN Security Council present a more nuanced picture. Counterintuitively, France, the United Kingdom and the United States—three of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the Permanent 3 or P3) and members of the NATO alliance—voted apart on Council resolutions far more frequently in the Cold War, when the