Reforming UN Decision-Making Procedures

This volume seeks to offer a concrete and practically applicable answer to the question of how to increase the legitimacy of the UN's decision-making procedures on issues of global peace and security and offers an authoritative account of the decision-making procedures in the United Nations

Martin Daniel Niemetz has just completed his PhD at London School of Economics, UK. He is currently a Political Advisor to the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, Vienna, Austria.

INTRODUCTION, PART ONE: FRAMEWORK 1. Promoting a Deliberative System: The Desirability Score 2. The Politics of UN Reform: The Feasibility Score 3. Overview of Reform Proposals PART TWO: EVALUATION 5.SC Membership and Voting 6. SC Working Methods 7. Relations between SC and GA 8. Relations between SC and Civil Society 9. Overview of Evaluation Results CONCLUSION