How not to reform the United Nations

Global Governance

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 407-414

  Luck, Edward C ^a,b  

^a Department of Practice in International and Public Affairs ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 29544435866     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01104001     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Press conference, SG/SM/8855, 8 September 2003 and Address to the General Assembly, SG/SM/8891, GA/10157, 23 September 2003.
2. SG/SM/8891.
3. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, UN Doc. A/59/565, 2 December 2004.
4. For thoughtful critiques, see Ernesto Zedillo, ed., Reforming the United Nations for Peace and Security (New Haven: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2005);
5. Michael J. Glennon, "Idealism at the U.N.," Policy Review, no. 129 (February-March 2005): 3-13;
6. and Mats Berdal, "The United Nations at 60: A New San Francisco Moment?" Survival, vol. 47, no. 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 7-31.
7. Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century (New York: Ford Foundation, 1995);
8. Independent Advisory Group on United Nations Financing, Financing an Effective United Nations (New York: Ford Foundation, 1993).
9. Glennon, "Idealism at the U.N.," p. 4.
10. The discussion of Security Council reform in this article draws on Edward C. Luck, "Rediscovering the Security Council: The High-level Panel and Beyond," in Zedillo, Reforming the United Nations, pp. 126-152;
11. Luck, "The UN Security Council: Reform or Enlarge?" in Paul Heinbecker and Patricia Goff, eds., Irrelevant or Indispensable? The United Nations in the 21st Century (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005), pp. 143-152;
12. and Luck, "Reforming the Security Council - Step One: Improving Working Methods," background paper for the Permanent Mission of Switzerland for discussion with UN Member States, 25 April 2005.
13. SG/SM/8891.
14. Kofi Annan, In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All, UN Doc. A/59/2005, 21 March 2005, par. 165.
15. Ibid., Kofi Annan, In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All, par. 166.
16. SG/SM/8891.
17. For the hurdles facing efforts to expand the council, see Thomas G. Weiss, Overcoming the Security Council Reform Impasse: The Implausible Versus the Plausible, Occasional Paper No. 14 (Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2005).
18. Kofi Annan, Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform, UN Doc. A/51/950, 14 July 1997, par. 25.
19. Of the 105 paragraphs in the "Draft Outcome Document" compiled by the president of the General Assembly on 3 June 2005, only eighteen addressed questions of UN reform. The rest covered a very broad range of substantive issues, most of which come before the world body but some of which do not.
20. See Edward C. Luck, Reforming the United Nations: Lessons from a History in Progress (New Haven: Academic Council on the United Nations System, 2003);
21. and Jean E. Krasno, ed., United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global Society (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004).
22. SG/SM/9770, 21 March 2005.
23. Berdal, "The United Nations at 60."