The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has failed the COVID-19 test, unable to promote or facilitate multilateral cooperation in dealing with outbreak. This is worrying given its relevance as a principal organ of (UN) that could enable constrain international and need for such responding pandemic. failure UNSC respond adequately pandemic highlights historical limits forum cooperation. It al...

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The Advisory Council on Social Security Financing submitted its report to the Board of Trustees of the oldage and survivors insurance and disability insurance trust funds on January 1, 1959. The Council had been appointed, in the fall of 1957, by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in accordance with the 1956 amendments to the Social Security Act.1 The Council held its first meeting...

UN Security Council reform has been lingering over the years, since it was first seriously considered in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This paper argues that enlarging the Security Council by adding new permanent and non-permanent members, while many of the Charter provisions vital for the maintenance of international peace and security and disarmament are not in effect, wo...