Security Council Sclerosis

Interesting, biting, piece about the U.N. Security Council and how to improve it by ex-diplomat Carne Ross at openDemocracy.

“Journalists still write about the Security Council as if it is a serious body, even though the dwindling UN press corps and even diplomats inside the council despair at the ineffectiveness and absurdities of a body charged with nothing less than preventing war and promoting peace.”

Here’s the full commentary.