Pagliarulo, DiegoDriessen, MichaelBa Hubaish, Asma2024-10-112024-10-112020Ba Hubaish, Asma. "Do international institutions assist or impede the US influence on world politics: case study UN Security Council and World Trade Organization". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2020.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/458Thesis (B.A. in n Political Science, Minor in Legal Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2020.This research paper studies the question of whether international institutions assist or impede the US from influencing world politics. In order to answer this question, the study provides two case studies. The first examines the relationship between the US and the UN Security Council during the crisis that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The second case study examines the US-China trade war and its impact on US attitudes toward the WTO. Both case studies reveal that the US uses international institutions as a tool to attain its aims and abide by their rules, as long as they don’t go against American national interests. If US goals don’t align with those of international institutions, the American government is capable to act unilaterally to fulfill its interests. The study thus concludes that regardless the support or deterrence in some circumstances, global organizations in reality have minimal influence over US actions. Consequently, countries must not put too much faith in international institutions unless the whole world order is reformed to function more effectively, which is unlikely to happen.iv, 40 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/United NationsCommercial treatiesInternational economic relationsThesis