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Ideas for Reform : Areas for Reform-United Nations General
- Nations United in Discontent
-- As the 58th General Assembly of the United Nations opens in New York, the 191 member countries are united in agreement that the UN is not working well and must change—but deeply divided on how.
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- Reform the United Nations
-- The inability of the UN to deal with the Iraqi dictatorship was symbolic of its failure to address the rising global threat of international terrorism and rogue states. Instead of acting as an effective mechanism for advancing global security, the Security Council became a barrier to progress and was used as a tool by France and Russia to limit the ability of the US to act on the world stage.
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- The mother of all questions: how to reform global governance?
-- The period of crisis in international institutions and political order inaugurated on 11 September 2001 has left intact public trust in the United Nations itself. The organisation should seize the moment for a bold, imaginative reform of its institutional architecture – one that will help establish a global public contract able to address the problems of democracy, peace, sustainability and the network society that will define the new century.
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- The UN and Global Security--Do We Need to Reinvent the UN, and if So, How?
-- The UN Security Council is at risk of becoming irrelevant if it fails to live up to its responsibilities." It seems inevitable that the Security Council will become "increasingly irrelevant" since the misunderstandings between the Western democracies on the Security Council go so deep that they cannot be overcome by minor procedural or structural changes in the UN.
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- UN Reform When?
-- When the World Trade Organisation (WTO) met in Mexico recently, a group of developing countries refused to be taken for granted by the rich industrialised nations that control the body, sending a message to the elite that they must change their way of doing business...
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- UN Reform: An Analysis
-- The UN needs reform. On that everyone agrees. But people disagree sharply on what kind of reform is needed and for what purpose. NGO leaders aim for a more democratic UN, with greater openness and accountability. Technocrats seek more productivity and efficiency from the UN's staff. Conservatives push for a downsized UN with sharply reduced powers...
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- What Future for the UN?
-- Former UK cabinet minister Clare Short assesses US-UN relations in the wake of the Iraq conflict, and argues global security can only be achieved through the UN...
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