Do Israeli policies actually matter at the UN?

Over at the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten analyzes the history of UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting on Israel-related resolutions and reaches an interesting conclusion: how states vote seems to have much less to do with specific Israeli governments and policies than long-term structural issues in international politics: What really jumps out is the consistency in ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Over at the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten analyzes the history of UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting on Israel-related resolutions and reaches an interesting conclusion: how states vote seems to have much less to do with specific Israeli governments and policies than long-term structural issues in international politics:

Over at the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten analyzes the history of UN General Assembly (UNGA) voting on Israel-related resolutions and reaches an interesting conclusion: how states vote seems to have much less to do with specific Israeli governments and policies than long-term structural issues in international politics:

What really jumps out is the consistency in the gap between Israel, the U.S., and most other countries. Moreover, the biggest changes followed the end of the Cold War; not changes in Israeli policies. After the end of the Cold War, Eastern European states suddenly became much more favorable towards Israel. Western European and Latin American states gradually dropped their support when released from the shackles of Cold War politics….Israel has always been isolated in the UNGA on Palestine-related votes and there is no evidence that this isolation has increased due to the policies pursued in the past few years by the Netanyahu government (which may well be deplorable for other reasons).

Keep an eye on his site for more analysis in the next few days.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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