The UN Security Council in the Twenty First Century
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. I. Competing Interests on the Security Council: 3. The United States in the Security Council/Stephen John Stedman. 4. China in the Security Council/Zhu Wenqi and Leng Xinyu. 5. Russia in the Security Council/Dmitri Trenin. 6. France and the United Kingdom in the Security Council/Thierry Tardy and Dominik Zaum. 7. Power Dynamics Between Permanent and Elected Members/Colin Keating. 8. Council Reform and the Emerging Powers/Kishore Mahbubani. 9. Working Methods: The Ugly Duckling of Security Council Reform/Christian Wenaweser. 10. The Security Council at Seventy: Ever Changing or Never Changing?/Edward C. Luck. II. Addressing Thematic Issues: 11. Humanitarian Action and Intervention/Thomas G. Weiss. 12. Promoting Democracy/Francesco Mancini. 13. Acting on Human Rights/Joanna Weschler. 14. Responding to Terrorism/Peter Romaniuk. 15. Confronting Organized Crime and Piracy/James Cockayne. 16. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Managing Proliferation/Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu.
III. Enforcing Council Mandates: 17. The Use of Force: A System of Selective Security/Adam Roberts. 18. Robust Peacekeeping and the Limits of Force/Jean-Marie Guéhenno. 19. The Security Council and NATO/Herman Schaper. 20. The Role of Sanctions/Sue Eckert. IV. Evolving Institutional Factors: 21. Relations with the UN Secretary-General/Simon Chesterman. 22. Special Representatives of the Secretary-General/Connie Peck. 23. Collaborating with Regional Organizations/Bruno Stagno Ugarte. 24. Groups of Friends/Teresa Whitfield. 25. International Courts and Tribunals/Eran Sthoeger. V. Key Country Cases: 26. The Arab-Israeli Conflict/Markus E. Bouillon. 27. Iraq/David M. Malone and Poorvi Chitalkar. 28. The Balkans/Mats Berdal. 29. Somalia/John L. Hirsch. 30. Sudan/Heiko Nitzschke. 31. Afghanistan/Francesc Vendrell. 32. The Democratic Republic of the Congo/Tatiana Carayannis. 33. Côte d’Ivoire/Arthur Boutellis and Alexandra Novosseloff. 34. Libya/Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams. 35. Syria/Salman Shaikh and Amanda Roberts. Commentary: The Council’s Failure on Syria/Raghida Dergham. VI. The Security Council and International Order: 36. The Security Council and Peacekeeping/Richard Gowan. 37. The Security Council and International Law/Ian Johnstone. 38. The Security Council and the Changing Distribution of Power/Bruce Jones. 39. The Security Council in a Fragmenting World/Jeremy Greenstock. 40. Conclusion: The Security Council and a World in Crisis/Sebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone and Bruno Stagno Ugarte. Appendices. List of Acronyms. Bibliography. Index.
After grappling for two decades with the realities of the post- Cold War era, the UN Security Council must now meet the challenges of a resurgence of great power rivalry. Reflecting this new environment, The UN Security Council in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive view of the council’s internal dynamics, its role and relevance in world politics, and its performance in addressing today’s major security challenges. (jacket)
