TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hosli, Madeleine O.
A1  - Dörfler, Thomas
ED  - Lesage, Dries
ED  - Van de Graaf, Thijs
T1  - The United Nations Security Council
BT  - the Challenge of Reform
T2  - Rising powers and multilateral institutions (International Political Economy Series)
N2  - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the most important multilateral institutions having the ambition to shape global governance and the only organ of the global community that can adopt legally binding resolutions for the maintenance of international peace and security and, if necessary, authorize the use of force. Created in the aftermath of World War II by its victors, the UNSC’s constellation looks increasingly anachronistic, however, in light of the changing global distribution of power. Adapting the institutional structure and decision-making procedures of the UNSC has proven to be one of the most difficult challenges of the last decades, while it is the institution that has probably been faced with the most vociferous calls for reform. Although there have been changes to the informal ways in which outside actors are drawn into the UNSC’s work and activities, many of the major players in the current international system seem to be deprived from equal treatment in its core patterns of decision-making. Countries such as Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, alongside emerging African nations such as Nigeria and South Africa, are among the states eager to secure permanent representation on the Council. By comparison, selected BRICS countries, China and Russia - in contrast to their role in other multilateral institutions - are permanent members of the UNSC and with this, have been “insiders” for a long time. This renders the situation of the UNSC different from global institutions, in which traditionally, Western powers have dominated the agenda.
KW  - Security Council
KW  - Winning Coalition
KW  - Veto Player
KW  - Social Choice Theory
KW  - Decision Probability
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-1-349-48504-8
SN  - 978-1-137-39760-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397607_8
SP  - 135
EP  - 152
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - London
ER  -