Reform of the Security Council: The long road to a more democratic UN

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1,0, Fudan University Shanghai (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada), 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the question why a reform of the Security Council is overdue, ...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1,0, Fudan University Shanghai (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada), language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the question why a reform of the Security Council is overdue, which types of future faces of the council could be possible and why the Security Council undercuts all attempts of reform. Do the members of the Security Council really serve national interests by trying to maintain their power in the current Security Council and by blocking every reform attempt? Or has the time for a reform not come yet?The first section will include the failed G4 reform bill and an explanation of the main problems of the Security Council. Section two will explore previous reform attempts and section three will show possible and current reform proposals. Finally, section four contains a conclusion to this topic.