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This brief essay is part of a larger project to reevaluate the UN Security Council after the collapse of the Cold War system and the onset of what was then prematurely labeled the "new world order". The UN Security Council continues to be in the news, whether it relates to the unending sanctions and other punitive measures against Saddam Hussein's Iraq or to the escalating conflict in and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, to name just two out of the large list of issues with which the Council is seized. The argument about its effectiveness or ineffectiveness, relevance or irrelevance, does not seem to end. Many judgments about its place in the system of global governance are based on a superficial reading of the Council's resolutions and decisions lacking a parallel effort to look behind the closed doors of its confidential consultations and to observe the Council members in businesslike proceedings to deal with a pending conflict or dispute and thereby facilitate some easing of a dangerous confrontation.
Approximate Word count = 643
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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