Reforming Un Decision-making Procedures: Promoting A Deliberative System For Global Peace And Security (routledge Research On The United Nations (un))
by Martin Daniel Niemetz /
2015 / English / PDF
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The institutional procedures for the UN’s decision-making on
issues of global peace and security, first and foremost the
Security Council (SC), were conceived with the objective of
enabling a swift but internationally coordinated response to
irregular situations of crises. Today, however, the UN is
constantly involved in situations of conflict and has expanded
its range of activities.
The institutional procedures for the UN’s decision-making on
issues of global peace and security, first and foremost the
Security Council (SC), were conceived with the objective of
enabling a swift but internationally coordinated response to
irregular situations of crises. Today, however, the UN is
constantly involved in situations of conflict and has expanded
its range of activities.
This book offers a concrete and practically applicable answer to
the question of how to reform the UN and increase the legitimacy
of the UN’s decision-making procedures on issues of global peace
and security. In order to provide this answer, it connects the
minutia of institutional design with the abstract principals of
democratic theory in a systematic and reproducible method,
thereby enabling a clear normative evaluation of even the
smallest technical detail of reform. This evaluation demonstrates
that there is a range of feasible proposals for reform that could
improve the SC’s accountability both to the General Assembly and
to the general public, that could increase the opportunities for
effective input from the UN membership and NGOs.
This book offers a concrete and practically applicable answer to
the question of how to reform the UN and increase the legitimacy
of the UN’s decision-making procedures on issues of global peace
and security. In order to provide this answer, it connects the
minutia of institutional design with the abstract principals of
democratic theory in a systematic and reproducible method,
thereby enabling a clear normative evaluation of even the
smallest technical detail of reform. This evaluation demonstrates
that there is a range of feasible proposals for reform that could
improve the SC’s accountability both to the General Assembly and
to the general public, that could increase the opportunities for
effective input from the UN membership and NGOs.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the
United Nations, International Organizations and regional
governance.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the
United Nations, International Organizations and regional
governance.