Monthly Archives: December 2025

Untied Nations? Saving the UN Security Council

[EJIL] The United Nations Security Council is often criticized for being unrepresentative, paralysed by the veto, and impotent in the face of major conflicts. Yet beneath these familiar complaints lies a more profound dilemma: whether international society still believes in the desirability, let alone the possibility, of a global legal order anchored in the Council. […]