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Turkey's new vision for "man's best hope for peace": United nations reform and reorganization of the security council

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dc.contributor.author Ataç, C. Akça
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-09T12:06:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-09T12:06:13Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Ataç, C. Akça (2014). "Turkey's new vision for "man's best hope for peace": United nations reform and reorganization of the security council", All Azimuth, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 5-18. tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 2146-7757
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/6182
dc.description.abstract Despite its present reputation as weak, inefficient, and discreditable, the United Nations is one of humanity's most noble endeavors. Although the structure of the Security Council prevents its decision-making procedures from being more democratic, the UN still seeks to suppress aggression, respect self-determination, and promote human rights and well-being. Furthermore, political cosmopolitans' proposals for comprehensive UN reform, which goes far beyond increasing the number of permanent members of the Security Council, give us hope for substantial improvement. Nevertheless, the UN is still the sum of the states it is comprised of and UN reform depends on the broader and ambitious project of state reform as both concept and practice. Within this context, this paper argues that focusing exclusively on the Security Council and the geographical distribution of permanent membership only harms the comprehensiveness of the analyses seeking to reform the UN from a larger perspective. The fact that the success of a UN reform is closely related with the enhancement of member states' ethical capacities should also be taken into consideration. The next round of debates for a proper solution to the UN impasse takes place in 2015, and Turkey is emerging as an enthusiastic voice for further reform and for its own potential permanent membership in the Security Council. However, Turkey has also developed a significantly anti-UN discourse unprecedented in its foreign policy, which now runs the risk of curtailing the country's capacity to partake in substantial change in UN decision-making procedures. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu currently acts as a statesman, insisting on a statist reform (which focuses more on states' individual interests) of the Security Council. Interestingly, in the 1990s, when Davutoglu was a university professor, his views of the UN tended to be more cosmopolitan and suggested a civilization-based solution. This paper, while elaborating on the discussions of reforming the UN from a cosmopolitan perspective, also probes Davutoglu's conflicting approaches to the issue. It thus seeks to argue that Turkey, instead of pushing for a purely statist model, should consider supporting pluralistic, multilevel, and more-complex participation in the UN's decision-making procedures. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof 10.20991/allazimuth.167318 tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess tr_TR
dc.subject Ahmet Davutoğlu tr_TR
dc.subject Security Council tr_TR
dc.subject Turkish Foreign Policy tr_TR
dc.subject United Nations Reform tr_TR
dc.title Turkey's new vision for "man's best hope for peace": United nations reform and reorganization of the security council tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal All Azimuth tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 17826 tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 3 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 1 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 5 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 18 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü tr_TR


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