UN and Its Democratization: With a Special Reference to the UN Reforms
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The issue of democratization of international organizations has received attention recently. As globalization has caused global problems, democratic governance and management of international organizations is required. It is especially so in the UN, a core of global governance. There have been constant efforts to reform the UN, but the UN has been criticised in many respects. In this paper, I intend to suggest democracy as the principle for making the UN reforms. To this end, I elaborate on the normative explanation about the necessityand rationale of democratization of the UN. I argue that for the UN, a political space in which to make influential decisions in global level, to be accountable to them and hence to maintain legitimacy, democracy is required. On the other hand, many skeptics claim that professionalism and efficiency should be given priority in decision-making in the UN. Professionalism and efficiency that lack accountability and ignore public good is less likely to contribute to peace and security. Suggesting that the UN seek various ways for making itrepresentative and accountable, I intend to argue that civil society or NGOs may be a catalyst for the UN to be so. The civil society is to be more actively intervened in the UN’s decision-making process and to inspect it. To this end,the UN needs to have the accountability mechanism in which civil society has the initiative and opportunities to examine the UN’s tasks. In this context, it may be expected that in the UN, political participation or decision-making would be no longer the exclusive province of high politics.
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The issue of democratization of international organizations has received attention recently. As globalization has caused global problems, democratic governance and management ofinternational organizations is required. It is especially so in the UN, a core of global governance. There have been constant efforts to reform the UN, but the UN has been criticised in many respects. In this paper, I intend to suggest democracy as the principle for making the UN reforms. To this end, I elaborate on the normative explanation about the necessity and rationale of democratization of the UN. I argue that for the UN, a political space in which to make influential decisions in global level, to be accountable to them and hence to maintain legitimacy, democracy is required. On the other hand, many skeptics claim that professionalism and efficiency should be given priority in decision-making in the UN. Professionalism and efficiency that lack accountability and ignore public good is less likely to contribute to peace and security. Suggesting that the UN seek various ways for making itrepresentative and accountable, I intend to argue that civil society or NGOs may be a catalyst for the UN to be so. The civil society is to be more actively intervened in the UN’s decision-making process and to inspect it. To this end,the UN needs to have the accountability mechanism in which civil society has the initiative and opportunities to examine the UN’s tasks. In this context, it may be expected that in the UN, political participation or decision-making would be no longer the exclusive province of high politics.
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