Abstract:

variety of reform proposals have been offered by scholars and politicians for the United Nations Security Council (SC), almost all of which have focused solely on state-based solutions. The current study considers that reforming the Council through such means would not alter its current state to any significant extent.  The international legal order does not involve only nation-states, and state-based systems are not able autonomously to deal with new international problems such as global environmental issues, refugee flows and mass migration across borders in the post-Westphalian era. The current paper has thus developed a different approach to the issue of the reformation. It examines the SC and its critics. It first provides a critical evaluation of the SC critics. It then underlines hypocrisy problem of the Council by basing on Cosmopolitan Democracy (CD). It later discusses the democracy concept for the Council. It is finally concluded that a reform proposal for the Security Council must produce a non-state based solution. It is proposed that the Council must consider advancing access for new international legal actors.

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