Global Policy and the United Nations Security Council
An Examination of the Changing Perception of Global Security
and the
Necessity of Security Council Change
Giji Gya, 1999
Introduction | Chapter
1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter
3 | Chapter 4 | Conclusion
Table 1A | Table
1B | Table 2
CONCLUSION
The global community deserves, and in many cases is demanding, a democratic accountability of the Security Council in maintaining global peace and security. Security Council efficiency, democracy, credibility, legitimacy and accountability is undermined firstly by the veto power of the P5 overemphasising their national bias in the global arena, and secondly by the inequity of representation on the Council.
An incremental elimination of the veto will create a more vigorous and democratic debate on Council decisions to consider security issues in a greater global capacity. This consideration will be in greater depth than would have previously met the interests and bias of the P5, with a global policy emphasising cooperative human security. This will shift the security focus from one of state national bias embedded in the veto privilege to that of a cooperative maintenance of human security in the interests of a stable global climate.
A reform prepared in feasible steps (from veto containment to substantive issues, enhancing the cooperation of the Council with the General and the Secretary-General Assembly; then incremental limitiation of veto use; finally to a replacement of the veto with weighted voting with future phasing out to democratic voting in the Council), should allow the implementation of veto reform of the Council with agreement of the permanent veto wielding powers.
This will then open the path for initiating structural reform of the Council, leading to a change in Council composition to address inequity. A further continuation of a periodic review of the Council will direct the process to serve over the future years as the global climate changes.
The role of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General in limitation of veto use would be a direction for a future proposal, as would a detailed implementation of incremental veto reform. A suggested format for such a proposal would be firstly as a discussion paper, and then the integration of public opinion into a policy paper by a member state, such as Australia, for presentation to the UN.
The initial examination that this thesis provides is necessary in laying not just the fundamentals for such a proposal, but is instrumental in providing a global focus of theoretical foundation and changing security which reflects the shifting world climate. Such fundamentals are needed to facilitate the development of a policy approach, for a transformation from inter-national policy making to a greater and cooperative global one.
Appendices | Thesis Index Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Conclusion
Table 1A | Table 1B | Table 2
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