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The High Level Panel Report on Threats, Challenges and Change and the Future Role of the United Nations Security Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2005

Abstract

The UN High Level Panel Report, published in December, takes a comprehensive approach and is very frank in analysing the threats to international peace and security and their rootcauses. Its analysis and recommendations range from economic and social challenges to the use of force. This article discusses in particular the role and tasks that the High Level Panel envisages for the Security Council in light of the threats and challenges it identified. With the events of 11 September 2001 as the pivotal moment in history, the Panel nevertheless does not recommend or insist on fundamental changes of international legal paradigms, including in the (collective) use of force. The Panel's focus on reform of Security Council composition instead of the system that it operates neglects the problems with the latter and the impossibility of achieving the former.

Type
CURRENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Copyright
© 2005 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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