Power and Representation at the United Nations
A Critique of Nigeria's Bid for Permanent Seat in the Security Council
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12324147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abolade Adeniji (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 116-137 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | India Quarterly A Journal of International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0974-9284 • E-ISSN: 0975-2684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/097492840506100205 |
| OpenAlex | W2141337793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
The United Nations has been described as a huge and imposing theatre of conflict of interests, of competition of values, and of cooperation in search of solutions to common problems (Akindele, 1999:17). Given the potentially anarchical nature of the international society in which it operates and the sovereign equality of its principal, primary and dominant state actors, the UN is arguably the most sophisticated political technology mankind ever constructed and developed to maintain international peace and security. But member-states of the organisation have various percep'tions of it. While a few powerful states which designed it ab initio have shown a determination to preserve the status quo, which historically has been in their favour, the vast majority of member-states, largely concentrated in the southern hemisphere, poor, underdeveloped and at the periphery of high global politics, would prefer the UN to metamorphose into an instrument of change; an instrument for bridging the economic and technological gap between the rich North and the poor South. As far as the LDCs are concerned, at the centre of this enormous challenge are two crucial tasks: (i) reform of the international economic order, created at the end of World War II, allegedly to protect only the interest of the dominant powers (particularly the developed, industrialised and market-economy countries of the North) at the expense of the other members of the international community; and (ii) introduction and enhancement of the values of justice, fair play and equity in the management of global order
Collective security · Economics · Equity (law · International community · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Status quo · Summit · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |