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North Vs. South: Sovereign Equality And The Environment In The Twentieth Century, Thomas Schlesinger
North Vs. South: Sovereign Equality And The Environment In The Twentieth Century, Thomas Schlesinger
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Although Third World states lack military and economic strength, they still are able to exert considerable influence on certain international issues. The proliferation of small states following World War II, coupled with the twentieth century acceptance of the norm of sovereign equality, has enabled the weak states of the international system to challenge the order established by the strong. While Third World nations are weak according to traditional measures of power, sovereign equality and bloc voting by the small states, have accorded a type of "conditional" power to the South. This conditional power is augmented by the advent of a …