Reforming UN Decision-Making Procedures: Promoting a Deliberative System for Global Peace and Security

Reforming UN Decision-Making Procedures: Promoting a Deliberative System for Global Peace and Security
ISBN-10
1317575245
ISBN-13
9781317575245
Category
Political Science
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2015-03-24
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Martin Daniel Niemetz

Description

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 will be of interest to students and scholars of the United Nations, International Organizations and regional governance.

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