{"id":1476,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/in-what-way-does-the-predominance-of-the-usa-in-the-un-funding-upsc-psir-2019-3504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:53","slug":"in-what-way-does-the-predominance-of-the-usa-in-the-un-funding-upsc-psir-2019-3504","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/in-what-way-does-the-predominance-of-the-usa-in-the-un-funding-upsc-psir-2019-3504\/","title":{"rendered":"In what way does the predominance of the USA in the UN funding affect its decision-making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> one member, one vote whatever it pays <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> US at the 22% ceiling + nearly 27% of peacekeeping <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> influence travels through the budget, not the ballot<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Charter gives no weighted vote <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> so leverage is built outside the rules <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> through assessments, arrears, earmarked funds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>1986 Kassebaum-Solomon threat <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Assembly gives way <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Res. 41\/213 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Fifth Committee to seek \u201cbroadest possible agreement\u201d = consensus in practice <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> informal budget veto without any weighted vote <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Mearsheimer<\/b>: institutions mirror the distribution of power <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> withholding\/arrears <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Secretariat kept short of cash <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> earmarked money <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> agencies follow donor priorities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>votes stay outside the purse: Jerusalem, 128\u20139 (2017) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> and the leverage is not costless to Washington itself<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> the purse settles what the UN can <i>afford<\/i> to decide, not what it votes<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> <b>Patz<\/b> (2026): structural political payment failure <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> 2026 budget down 7%, 2,900 posts cut <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Washington now shapes the UN by shrinking it<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[78],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1476","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-united-nations","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1476\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}