How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.
Global Governance › Vol. 11 Nbr. 4, October 2005
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How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.
Dissension over Iraq in 2003 challenged the legitimacy and effectiveness of the UN. It also highlighted long-standing problems that previous UN institutional reform efforts had failed to resolve. Kofi Annan has been a reforming secretary-general, but even he acknowledged in September 2003 that the core UN institutions needed "radical reform." (1) The High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change was the response: (2) wide-ranging, certainly; radical, up to a point; and with at least some of its core recommendations regarding peacebuilding and protection likely implemented at the UN summit in September 2005.
However, other recommendations of the High-Level Panel have proved to be problematical. These include key ideas about the composition of the Security Council and about the reform of other UN bodies. This is not surprising. The key question on UN reform has always been not "why" or "what" but "how." (3) Indeed, there have been many previous reports and recommendations, by outside bodies and by the secretary-general. (4) The high principles and values are well established. They include peace, justice, freedom, equity, sustainability, and solidarity. Earlier reports have also made many specific proposals--for example, about membership of the Security Council, the need for stronger institutions...See the full content of this document
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