The procedure of the UN Security Council

This text is a revised edition and contains new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the UN Security Council's procedures of the past two decades. It provides insight into the inside workings of the world's pre-eminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it describes the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. It explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and its own subsidiary bodies

This text is a revised edition and contains new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the UN Security Council's procedures of the past two decades. It provides insight into the inside workings of the world's pre-eminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it describes the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. It explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and its own subsidiary bodies

This text is a revised edition and contains new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the UN Security Council's procedures of the past two decades. It provides insight into the inside workings of the world's pre-eminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it describes the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. It explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and its own subsidiary bodies.

(C) Role of the President in the context of informal meetings of Council members(d) Role of the President in conducting diplomacy on behalf of the Council; (e) Other roles of the President, including outreach and transparency; (f) Qualities of the President; 2. PERMANENT MEMBERS; 3. NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS; 4. REGIONAL AND OTHER GROUPS; 5. 'GROUPS OF FRIENDS'; 6. POLITICAL COORDINATORS AND EXPERTS; 7. CREDENTIALS; 8. REPRESENTATION OF CHINA AND OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION; (a) Representation of China; (b) Representation of the Russian Federation; 9. PERMANENT MISSIONS AND REPRESENTATION.

The Procedure of the UN Security Council is the definitive book of its kind and has been widely used by UN practitioners and scholars for nearly 40 years. This comprehensively revised edition contains over 450 pages of new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the Council''s procedures of the past two decades. A one-stop handbook and guide, with meticulous referencing, this book has served diplomats, UN staff and scholars alike in providing unique insight into the inside workings of the world''s preeminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Thor