1st Edition
Reforming the UN Security Council Membership The illusion of representativeness
By Sabine Hassler
Copyright 2013
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually create a representative and more effective Security Council. The book places the discussion on reform of Security Council membership in the context of the council’s primary... Read more
Introduction 1. The Security Council at the Helm of UN Collective Security 2. The Security Council’s Composition and Membership 3. Institutional Reform and Its Significance for the Security Council 4. Proposals on Representativeness 5. Proposals on Size 6. Proposals to Remedy Imbalance 7. Membership Criteria, Power Prerogatives and Periodic Review 8. A ‘Perfect’ Security Council? 9. Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Sabine Hassler is a senior lecturer in law at the University of the West of England. Dr. Hassler’s research interests include matters of collective security, issues of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and non-human personhood rights.
