Great-Power Politics and Institutional Constraints in UN Conflict Management: A Comparative Realist Analysis of Post-2000 Interventions in Kashmir, Palestine, Ukraine, Yemen, and Venezuela
Journal: Pakistan Social Sciences Review
Year: 2026

This paper discusses institutional barriers that constrain the effectiveness of the United Nations in major conflict zones since the year 2000. UN has been constructed to ensure international peace and justice but inequalities in the makeup of the Security Council are still there to influence decision making. The latest conflicts reveal the interference of geopolitical interests. The study represents a qualitative analysis that uses the Classical and Structural Realist theory by analyzing protra