UN Security Council; veto power; Charter reform; collective security; R2P (Responsibility to Protect; veto override mechanisms; institutional legitimacy; great-power governance.

This article is written by Mithila Ravinutala of OP Jindal Global University, an intern under Legal Vidhya ABSTRACT The United Nations Security Council was designed to prevent global conflict through collective action backed by great-power cooperation. Yet after eighty years, it has become what it was meant to prevent: an Read more