Around Arendt’s table: Bureaucracy and the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council

Roele, Isobel

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“…The reputation of the Council is not helped by its working methods which tend to underscore its secrecy and exclusivity. 101 So low is confidence in the Council's bona fides that it is often referred to as a 'hegemonic' institution. 102 One of the precipitating causes of this judgment was the Council's unprecedented action, on 28 September 2001, of passing a Chapter VII resolution imposing binding obligations on all UN member states to deal with the generic phenomenon of international terrorism.…”

Section: Threats Without Temporal Boundariesmentioning

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An Articulated Security Project

2022

Articulating Security

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This book analyses a cooperative approach to global security developed by and through the UN with particular intensity after the millennium. The approach is most clearly evident in the organization's Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, on which the book focuses. International terrorism looms largest among a group of security challenges that the UN conceptualizes as 'threats without boundaries'. An arsenal of different responses is arrayed against it, ranging from military intervention and targeted assassination to individual sanctions and algorithmic governance. Here, our concern is with a distinct endeavour that sets out to develop an approach that is cooperative, comprehensive, and continuous. I describe this as an articulated security project.Multilateral cooperation takes on a distinctly Foucauldian flavour in the UN's project of articulating security. 1 It constitutes a 'mechanics of power' that aims to compose 'disciplinary machines in which the individual forces that 1 There is an abundance of scholarship that uses Foucault's concepts to analyze other aspects of security. For studies of good

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Section: Threats Without Temporal Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Articulating Security

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“…Another obstacle for the elected members is the burden of chairing subsidiary bodies of the Council, including sanctions committees. Obviously, keeping the elected members busy with administrative tasks rather than substantive political engagements works to the benefit of permanent members (Roele 2020). In this light, important prerogatives such as the allocation of chairs lie mainly with the P5, with little input from the E10.…”

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Power and Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council: The Influence of Elected Members

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Postolski

2021

The International Spectator

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terms as elected members (E10) of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) can be used to confront the well-known claim that due to a prevailing democratic, legitimacy or efficiency deficit-(s) in the structure and/or working methods of the Council, there is no significant space for the E10 members to be influential. By examining these two representative cases, the E10's capacity to exert such influence can indeed be detected on multiple levels, which highlights the numerous channels and practices available to the elected members to act as veritable norm entrepreneurs at this most prominent institution of global governance.

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State Changes: Prototypical Governance Figured and Prefigured

Johns

2022

Law Critique

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My 2019 article ‘From Planning to Prototypes: New Ways of Seeing Like a State’ (P2P) drew attention to some shortcomings of the kinds of critical, reformist impulses fostered in law and development work. I sought to show that persistent preoccupations with the destructive hubris of ‘top-down’ planning—especially state planning—bypassed the tendency for great power to be deployed in other stylistic modes: through the release and responsive tweaking of prototypes, for instance. This article engages with later developments—at one of P2P’s main field sites and scholarly literature in dialogue with P2P—to build upon the analysis therein. It elaborates on the kinds of power animated through prototyping, showing how prototyping is often combined with other governance styles and what it makes of the inputs on which law has typically been said to draw and of law’s claims to autonomy. It complicates the provenance of this style by reference to mid-to-late-twentieth century UN sanctions regimes, highlighting that governance prototyping is as much state-made as business-led and not restricted to the development field. With particular attention to the strangeness of the human user presupposed by prototyping, this article also aims to identify some modes of critical engagement to which this governance style might be answerable.

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Around Arendt’s table: Bureaucracy and the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

An Articulated Security Project

An Articulated Security Project

Power and Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council: The Influence of Elected Members

State Changes: Prototypical Governance Figured and Prefigured

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