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What are the major impediments to UN Security Council reform?

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • United Nations

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Every member state, including all five permanent members, now says the Security Council should be enlarged. Yet more than three decades of formal effort, from the Open-Ended Working Group (1993) to the Intergovernmental Negotiations (since 2009), have produced no agreed text. The impediments are best ranked rather than listed, because the first makes all the…

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  • 1. The Article 108 double lock
  • 2. The permanent members' interests
  • 3. Regional rivals: Uniting for Consensus
  • 4. The veto and the African position
  • 5. No agreed formula, and the interlinkage rule
  • 6. The quarrel over procedure
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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