O poder de veto no conselho de segurança das Nações Unidas uma análise do uso do veto para fins geopolíticos e a deterioração do direito internacional público

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the veto power of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in favor of their own geopolitical interests and the resulting damage to the effectiveness of Private International Law. Initially, the composition of the main organs of the United Nations Organization is analyzed, with a special focus on the three most important, namely: The Security Council, the General Assembly, and the International Court of Justice. Next, some of the main wars that have involved or are still involving the broad participation of some of the permanent members of the Security Council are studied, and how their involvements are, in fact, to cover their own geopolitical interests rather than honoring their promises to seek world peace and security at the time the United Nations Organization was created. Finally, the various proposals for reforming the Security Council are analyzed to bring the UN closer to its principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. The study was essentially carried out through documentary research and bibliographic review, based on the evaluation and interpretation of the collected information. It was concluded that, although the United Nations Security Council guarantees the effectiveness of the UN, in the sense of making it functional in some way—otherwise it would have suffered the same fate as the League of Nations—an urgent reform of the Security Council is necessary, as the current format greatly contributes to the free satisfaction of the permanent members' own geopolitical interests.