.HayesBrown: Biden wants to update the U.N. Quick question: How?
The U.S. “supports increasing the number of both permanent and nonpermanent representatives of the council,” Biden said. “This includes permanent seats for those nations we’ve long supported and permanent seats for countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.”
That would be a much needed, and long-awaited, change. The last time the U.N. added seats to the council was back in 1963, when the General Assemblyfrom six nonpermanent members to 10. Since then, the U.N. has grown from 113 members to 193. The place of the P-5 in the world has shifted as well since the U.N. was founded. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies got to set the terms of the new organization and become permanent members on the Security Council. But while China has come a long way since 1945, and the U.S. is still dominant globally, Russia is not the power that the Soviet Union was. And some nations question why Britain and France should still rank among the arbiters of world peace at all.
Which brings us back to the question Biden glided over: how? Which countries should be granted permanent seats? Should they get a veto as well? Would just adding new rotating seats help make the Security Council more representative of the global community? Or should any reform simply focus on the veto itself?
The process of answering those questions has been sclerotic, meandering and seemingly unending. There are
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