Inside the UN Security Council: Legitimation Practices and Darfur

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Jess Gifkins (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Manchester)

Inside the UN Security Council

Legitimation Practices and Darfur

Jess Gifkins (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Manchester)

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Oxford University Press
20 February 2024

Politics & government; International relations; United Nations & UN agencies; Warfare & defence

UN Security Council decisions impact billions of people and yet its formal rules are minimal and tell us little about how decisions are made. Instead, informal, and often unwritten practices, form the basis of negotiations. Inside the UN Security Council analyses informal practices within Security Council decision-making, both in general and focused on the case of Darfur in the west of Sudan, to pull back the curtain on decision-making. Security Council negotiations on Darfur are analyzed in depth across issue areas of agenda-setting, sanctions, referral to the International Criminal Court, and peacekeeping. One way of understanding these informal practices is via the lens of legitimation. This is a useful approach because it brings to the fore the ways in which states seek legitimacy for themselves, and for Security Council decisions, as part of the negotiation process. Inside the UN Security Council introduces and develops the concept of legitimation practices to analyse the UN Security Council's decision-making. Legitimation practices shape the process and outcome of negotiations in two different ways. Internal legitimation practices, which relate to the legitimation of Security Council decisions, such as prioritizing unanimity, constrain and enable the text of resolutions. External legitimation practices such as 'doing something', even when it is known that it cannot be implemented, relate to the legitimation of actors in the negotiations and shape whether decisions can be reached at all. Foregrounding legitimation practices sheds light on seemingly contradictory moments within Security Council decision-making, such as the United States enabling the referral of the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, despite its longstanding objections to the court and the capacity to veto the decision. The book draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including original interviews with key decision-makers, to show that legitimation practices are an integral aspect of Security Council negotiations.

By: Jess Gifkins (Senior Lecturer in International Relations Senior Lecturer in International Relations University of Manchester)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192869029
ISBN 10: 0192869027
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 20 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Jess Gifkins is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research is on the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect, with projects on practices, the UK at the UN, queering atrocity prevention, and early warning of atrocity crimes. Her article with Professor Jason Ralph won 'Best Article for 2017' in the European Journal of International Relations, and she has also published research in International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and the Australian Journal of International Affairs among other outlets.