Policy brief on possible reforms of the UN-Security Council

Polemic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1,5, University of Innsbruck (Politikwissenschaft), course: Seminar---Internationale Beziehungen (Einführung), language: English, abstract: The United Nations Security council is a system with some deep implemented problems. Most important are the unproportionate representation of the United Nation¿s members and the inequality of voting power of its permanent members. It is of every, but those five permanent members interest that these flaws are fixed. This paper elaborates three different approaches to do so for Austria.

First, the removal of the permanent member status or at least its right to veto resolutions. Second, the withdrawal from the United Nations while forming a new supranational organisation. And last, the option to bide for a better opportunity to implement one of the other policies and to avoid negative consequences. There are positive as well as negative consequences to each of those policies which are discussed separately. Secluding this policy brief will come to the conclusion that the formal proposal is the best option for Austria at the moment.