No. 72: UN Security Council Reform

A Gordian Knot?

Author(s): Daniel Trachsler
Editor(s): Daniel Trachlser
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 72
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Efforts are underway to make the UN Security Council more representative, legitimate, and efficient. However, the reform project is blocked by disagreements, regional rivalries, and institutional obstacles. A loss of legitimacy is increasingly likely. Small and medium-sized states in particular have an interest in strengthening the UN's comprehensive multilateralism and thus pre-empting tendencies towards unilateralism or ad-hoc coalitions. Unblocking reform demands that all sides display willingness to compromise. It is important that the reform goals not be watered down in the process.

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