The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform

Bourantonis, Dimitris

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“… 74 A study by the Argentine government found that between 1984 and 1993, permanent members of the Security Council had a considerably higher rate of reappointment on all important UN committees (Bourantonis 2005, 97).…”

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Historical Institutionalism in International Relations

Fioretos¹

2011

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This article reviews recent contributions to International Relations (IR) that engage the substantive concerns of historical institutionalism and explicitly and implicitly employ that tradition's analytical features to address fundamental questions in the study of international affairs. It explores the promise of this tradition for new research agendas in the study of international political development, including the origin of state preferences, the nature of governance gaps, and the nature of change and continuity in the international system. The article concludes that the analytical and substantive profiles of historical institutionalism can further disciplinary maturation in IR, and it proposes that the field be more open to the tripartite division of institutional theories found in other subfields of Political Science.

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“…These demands were rejected outright by the sitting permanent members. ‘The obvious reason’, Bourantonis (, p. 30) suggests, ‘was their reluctance to share their privileged position with others and/or fear of losing their position, which they saw as a symbol of their international status and prestige’. Thus, although the EU's positive status trajectory and its current high positional status is evident, it suffers from the lack of inclusion into the status clubs of nation‐states.…”

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On the Social Status of the European Union

Røren

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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In this article I analyse the EU's social status in world politics. I argue that recognition grants the EU both club and positional status. Drawing on existing literature on status in international relations, I conceptualize the diplomatic corps of various polities as the embodied recognition of their positional status in world politics. To indicate and measure the positional status of the EU, I applied social network analysis to data on the exchange of embassies from 1960 to 2010. This methodology allows for consistent longitudinal comparisons of standing between heterogeneous polities in world politics. The results indicate that the EU's rise in the status hierarchy has been meteoric since 1960. However, fear of status congestion and status dilution among countries has thwarted the EU's full inclusion into the various status clubs of nation-states. I show that due to its lack of full club status the EU struggles to convert its high positional status into influence.

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“…74 A resolution was nonetheless adopted by a vote of 97 to 11, with four abstentions (including those of the United Kingdom and the United States). The security architecture inherited from San Francisco came under revision during the 1960s, when four nonpermanent seats were added to the Council.…”

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“…Predictably, permanent members were quick to object; the Soviet Union, for one, based its opposition on the absence of Communist China from the Council. 74 A resolution was nonetheless adopted by a vote of 97 to 11, with four abstentions (including those of the United Kingdom and the United States). After the General Assembly vote, in an attempt to regain the favour of newly independent states, Moscow changed its position and ratified the proposed amendment within days.…”

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The politics of inclusion: Changing patterns in the governance of international security

Pouliot¹,

Thérien²

2014

Rev. Int. Stud.

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The debate on the reform of the Security Council can be conceptualised as the most recent episode in the evolution of World Governing Councils (WGCs), that is, the highest-level intergovernmental bodies charged with regulating the international use of violence. Building on a historical comparison of key formative and transformative moments -1815, 1919, 1945, and post-Cold War -we argue that the modern evolution of WGCs is characterised by increasing inclusiveness. More specifically, we show that the number of participants involved in deliberations has constantly risen; that legitimating principles have gradually tilted in favour of 'input legitimacy'; that the constitutive rules and procedures have steadily gained in transparency; and that the WGCs themselves have comprised an expanding membership with a decreasing number of veto points. At the theoretical level, these converging trends can be explained by the existence of a 'ratchet effect' whereby new norms and practices of inclusion accumulate over time. However concrete and long lasting, the democratic gains registered in the process must be cast in terms of historically specific politics and struggles rather than in terms of lofty ideals promoted by altruistic norm entrepreneurs.

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The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform

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Historical Institutionalism in International Relations

Historical Institutionalism in International Relations

On the Social Status of the European Union

The politics of inclusion: Changing patterns in the governance of international security

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