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Examines issues central to current negotiations about reform of the UN's Security Council; 1990s, chiefly.

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

Intro -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Notes on the Authors -- Contents -- List of Tables and Charts -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK -- 1. The role of the Security Council -- 2. The Charter -- 3. The rules of procedure -- 4. Custom -- 5. Functions -- 2. THE COUNCIL MEETS -- 1. Formal meetings and informal consultations -- 2. Convening a meeting -- 3. Notice of meetings -- 4. Place of meeting -- 5. 'Periodic' meetings -- 6. 'Orientation' and 'exchange of views' meetings -- 7. Private (closed) meetings -- 8. Informal consultations -- 9. Duration of meetings -- 10. The agenda -- 11. Rejection of items -- 12. Interpretation and translation -- 13. Documents and records -- 14. Communications -- 3. THE PEOPLE -- 1. Secretary-General -- 2. President -- 3. Permanent members -- 4. Non-permanent members -- 5. Other participants -- 6. Permanent missions -- 7. Groups -- 8. Regionalism -- 9. Credentials -- 10. Representation of China -- 11. Precedence -- 4. DIPLOMACY AND DEBATE -- 1. Order of speakers -- 2. Interrupting the speaker -- 3. Right of reply -- 4. Motions, proposals, suggestions -- 5. 'Precedence motions' (Rule 33) -- 6. Amendments -- 7. Statements before or after the vote -- 5. VOTING -- 1. Procedural motions -- 2. Substantive decisions -- 3. The veto -- 4. The double veto -- 5. The 'hidden veto' -- 6. Abstentions -- 7. Absence -- 8. Non-participation in the vote -- 9. Consensus and unanimity -- 10. When are decisions binding? -- 6. RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANS -- 1. Military Staff Committee -- 2. General Assembly -- 3. Economic and Social Council -- 4. Trusteeship Council -- 5. International Court of Justice -- 6. Non-Governmental Organizations -- 7. Appointment of the Secretary-General -- 7. SUBSIDIARY ORGANS -- 1. Organs concerned with Council procedure -- (a) Committee of Experts.