Bargaining in the UN Security Council : setting the global agenda /
Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security, but not all threats. Why does the Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security, but not all threats. Why does the Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions, if they take any action at all? Adapting insights from legislative bargaining, this book demonstrates that the agenda-setting powers granted in the institutional rules offer less powerful Council members the opportunity to inuence the content of a resolution without jeopardizing its passage. The Council also decides when to conduct public or private diplomacy. The analysis shows how external factors like international and domestic public reactions motivate grandstanding behaviors and shape resolutions. New quantitative data on meetings and outside options provide support for these claims. The book also explores the dynamics of the formal analysis in three cases: North Korean nuclear proliferation, the negotiations leading up to NATO bombing in Serbia over Kosovo, and the elected member-led process to codify the principles of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The book argues that while the powerful veto members do have great inuence over the Council, the rules of the most consequential security institution inuence its policy outcomes, just as they do in any other international institution. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192666598 0192666592 9780192666604 0192666606 0191944882 9780191944888 |