The illusion of UN Security Council reform

O Brasil e a reforma do Conselho de Segurança: uma análise realista

“…Paradoxalmente, a percepção de que o CS adquiriu nova centralidade e maior efetividade com o fim da Guerra Fria -em particular, após a bem-sucedida concertação que culminou na expulsão do Iraque do território do Kuwait, em 1991 -gerou uma renovada onda de debate em torno da necessidade de se reformá-lo (WEISS, 2003). Esta percepção foi acompanhada de um expressivo acirramento na disputa entre os países pelos assentos não permanentes, com campanhas iniciadas com grande antecipação e envolvendo a mobilização da maior parte do aparato diplomático dos candidatos, incessantes visitas intergovernamentais e um intrincado e dispendioso processo de barganha e lobby que passou a quase monopolizar as representações em Nova York durante os meses que antecedem as eleições na Assembleia Geral da ONU (MALONE, 2000).…”

How Many is Greater than Five: A Comprehensive Model Proposal for the United Nations Security Council

“…It is obvious that due to the current structure and decision-making process of the UN, it is impossible to implement any reform plan on the Security Council. 45 As each attempt requires permanent member affirmative voting it is no use hoping they would accept the changes. So, today the UN needs a new consensus for the future.…”

The Politics of Global Governance in UN Peacekeeping

“…21 This revitalization of the Security Council at the end of the cold war changed the pattern of political calculation on the part of states within the UN system, as noted by Thomas Weiss: 'Excluded countries wanted a part of the action, to defend their own viewpoints from the risk of being ignored by a new sort of P-5 [Permanent Five members'] condominium'. 22 According to Malone there is ample evidence of this in the Council's working, with growing high-handedness on the part of the P5 and changes in working procedure that has consolidated the dominance of the P5 and in particular the United States. 23 Another barometer of this consolidation of Council authority is the declining use of the veto, the 1991 -2000 period seeing only seven vetoes cast, the lowest for any decade of the UN's history.…”