As resoluções do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas no conflito israelo-palestino entre 2001 e 2021: uma análise realista

Abstract

This article investigates the United Nations Security Council resolutions adopted during the War on Terror period (2001-2021). The research was based on the Neorealist Theory of International Relations to address the epiphenomenal character of an international organ such as the Security Council in a world of sovereign States which value their own survival foremost. Considering that the international system experiences a situation of unipolarity since the decade of 1990, a conclusion is reached where the security interests of the unipolar power, the United States, are always going to control the agency of the Council. Account also should be taken on the impossibility of the settlement of the Israeli Palestinian conflict through the means of the UN, once the US views a terrorist threat on the Palestinian side and an ally on Israel. Accordingly, Security Council resolutions which possess as a subject-matter the settlement of the conflict between 2001 and 2021 are not efficient on guaranteeing peace and security to the region, making it so that the fundamental purposes of the Security Council are not contemplated given the primary issue of the security interests of the US.