{"id":1478,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-significance-and-urgency-of-the-un-security-council-upsc-psir-2020-3506\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:30","slug":"discuss-the-significance-and-urgency-of-the-un-security-council-upsc-psir-2020-3506","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-significance-and-urgency-of-the-un-security-council-upsc-psir-2020-3506\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the significance and urgency of the UN Security Council reforms. Explain the relevance of the reforms proposals made by the UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres for the developing countries."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">significance: Charter nucleus of the peace system; no democratisation while the strongest organ is unrepresentative; Africa and Latin America without permanent seats \u2192 urgency: Council fails wherever a P5 interest is engaged (Rwanda, Syria, Ukraine); Tirkey \u2192 archaic methods, Masood Azhar listing delayed a decade; weak states bear the cost \u2192 Guterres&#039;s proposals: three pillars \u2014 development system, peace and security architecture, Secretariat; DPPA + DPO under regional ASGs \u2192 Barnett \u2192 reactive UN prolongs suffering; the redesign answers this \u2014 relevance for developing countries: the gain lands where missions deploy and development money goes \u2014 present position: UN80 by 2026 largely austerity; Gowan \u2192 dependence on two assessed contributors<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Ng \u2192 legitimacy = effectiveness + representation; Guterres supplies only the first. representation needs Charter amendment, guarded by the veto \u2192 Ezulwini and L69 claims for developing \/small-island seats halt there<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R!I relevant but incomplete: improves what the UN delivers to developing states, not what they decide within it R2 administrative reform buys the Council time; without membership reform, every efficiency gain deepens dependence on the same few powers<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[41],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[78],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1478","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-41","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-united-nations","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1478\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}