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What Is It Like To Be a Non-Permanent Member of The UN Security Council? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 96 May 2018

Johan Verbeke, Johan Verbeke (2018) What Is It Like To Be a Non-Permanent Member of The UN Security Council? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 96 May 2018. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    The UN Security Council undoubtedly is the most prominent body of the world organization’s institutional machinery. Through its key executive decisionmaking powers it addresses conflicts and crises which constitute threats to international peace and security. Its decisions are binding on the entire membership. While the five permanent members of the Security Council have a pretty clear view on their role in the Council (permanence indeed helps), that is less so for the non-permanent members (potentially the bulk of the remaining 188 UN members) who only intermittently experience the Council, if at all. This paper addresses the question of ‘what is it like’ to be a non-permanent member of the Security Council in a straightforward way. No grand theories or speculative flights are involved. Just sound common sense. But common sense, as some of us know, can be a scarce resource.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Other international institutions > UN
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Egmont : Royal Institute for International Affairs > Security Policy Briefs
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2018 14:00
    Number of Pages: 3
    Last Modified: 23 Aug 2018 14:00
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/94372

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