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NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 16 MARCH 2011
GLOBAL CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
IS G20 THE WAY FORWARD?
As WWII was coming to a close more than sixty years ago, nations on the winning side were creating international institutions to cope with the wreckage of the war, which more than any in history had been of a truly global dimension. The World Bank & the IMF, came out of conferences at Bretton Woods. These financial institutions and the United Nations and the UN Security Council were perhaps the principal organisations, being mankind’s second attempt (after the failed League of Nations) to create institutions of peace after the alliances of war.
It is now inconceivable that these organisations, splendid in their way, can roll on into the distant future without overdue revision, and at this distance in time from their foundation, we seek to make the case that, starting with the most powerful, the Security Council, those revisions are needed now.
As this essay makes clear, we view the UNSC as well conceived and once a success but now being so skewed in its representation with only the five victors of that far-off war each having a permanent seat and a veto, as to inevitably become less effective.
Peter Crisell addresses the situation as it is now, before coming to the proposition that G20, a far more representative body appropriate to the 21st century, whilst keeping its existing economic remit, should subsume the UNSC to become the effective management committee of the UN as it was originally conceived to be.
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