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Record W4411254662 · doi:10.1163/15718107-bja10101

The Investigative Power of the United Nations Security Council

2025· article· en· W4411254662 on OpenAlexaff
Patient Mpunga-Biayi

Bibliographic record

VenueNordic Journal of International Law · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Peace and Security Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalÉcole Nationale d'Administration Publique
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic international lawInternational lawSecurity councilPolitical scienceLawPower (physics)Politics

Abstract

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Abstract Initially, it seemed that the investigative power of the Security Council would be merely ancillary, especially considering that Article 34 of the United Nations Charter, which establishes it, limits both its scope and function. On one hand, the Security Council can only investigate international disputes, i.e., those that could lead to disagreement between two or more states. On the other hand, the investigation should be limited to determining whether the dispute under the Council’s consideration poses a threat to international peace and security. However, nearly 80 years later, the practice of the Security Council reveals a trend toward an expansive interpretation of its investigative power. This power has shifted towards specific modalities. The purpose of the Security Council’s investigative power is now twofold. First, it aims to determine whether the continuation of the dispute is likely to threaten international peace and security. Second, it ensures that the conflict does not eventually escalate into a threat to peace or an act of aggression that would require coercive measures under Chapter vii of the Charter. The expansive interpretation of Article 34 has thus transformed the Security Council’s investigative power into a comprehensive and adaptable mechanism, capable of integrating both conciliation and coercion functions. By broadening the scope of its investigations, the Security Council can simultaneously engage in peaceful resolution efforts and, if necessary, pave the way for coercive actions should the threat persist or worsen.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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