The declining role of western powers in international organizations: exploring a new model of U.N. burden sharing

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Collective-action theory indicates that a country's economic size decides its contribution to international organizations, with huge economies providing an unbalanced percentage of their GNP for maintenance of these organizations. Theory is unable to forecast present contribution patterns in the United Nations. A more elaborate model of burden sharing that takes into consideration the domestic political background and international situation that ascertains a nation's contribution to international organization is necessary.

Economic aspects, International aspects, Donations, United Nations, International organization, Balance of power

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Environmental damage and the puzzle of the self-torturer

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The puzzle of the self-torturer makes apparent, in cases where individually negligible effects are involved, an agent, whether it be an individual or a unified collective, can be led down a course of destruction as a result of following its informed and perfectly understandable but intransitive preferences. This is relevant to environmental ethics, since environmental damage is the result of the accumulation of individually negligible effects.

Analysis, Offenses against the environment, Environmental crimes, Environmental ethics

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