"disempowerment" - 1 õppematerjal

URO Security Council kriis, United nations Legitimacy crisis

global order is founded. Competing Conceptions of the Crisis of LegitimacyIn the introduction to this collection, Christian Reus-Smit defines an actor or institution as experiencing a crisis of legitimacy 'when the level of social recognition that its identity, interests, practices, norms, or procedures are rightful declines to the point where [the actor or institution] must either adapt ... or face disempowerment'. In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, as the UNSC became more active, questions regarding its legitimacy tended to focus upon its failure adequately to represent a UN membership which had almost quadrupled since the organization's founding (Fassbender, 1998; Morris, 2000). However, as disagreements between the P-5 emerged over the Kosovo crisis in 1998­1999, and even more significantly in relation to Iraq in 2003,