TY - JOUR
T1 - A Review of the Academic Debate about United Nations Security Council Reform
AU - Winther, Bjarke Zinck
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article outlines and discusses the research on UNSC reform. The interdisciplinary field of UNSC reform research can be placed into two broad categories and four sub categories, each indicating the degree to which scholars believe in the benefits of either structural or working methods reform. These include topics such as legitimacy and efficiency and the question of (un)equal representation. The role of The Global South will feature heavily in analyses of how best to reform the UNSC, and of which actors or structures mainly prevent a reform from materialising. There has been a significant gap in research focusing on how the factors that feature as instruments of opposition, e.g. the presented benefits and detriments of the different approaches to reform, can potentially be converged to rethink the direction of the research.
AB - This article outlines and discusses the research on UNSC reform. The interdisciplinary field of UNSC reform research can be placed into two broad categories and four sub categories, each indicating the degree to which scholars believe in the benefits of either structural or working methods reform. These include topics such as legitimacy and efficiency and the question of (un)equal representation. The role of The Global South will feature heavily in analyses of how best to reform the UNSC, and of which actors or structures mainly prevent a reform from materialising. There has been a significant gap in research focusing on how the factors that feature as instruments of opposition, e.g. the presented benefits and detriments of the different approaches to reform, can potentially be converged to rethink the direction of the research.
KW - United Nations Security Council
KW - United Nations reform
KW - international relations
KW - international politics
KW - history
U2 - 10.1163/23525207-12340047
DO - 10.1163/23525207-12340047
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2352-5193
VL - 6
SP - 71
EP - 101
JO - The Chinese Journal of Global Governance
JF - The Chinese Journal of Global Governance
IS - 1
ER -