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To: frankw1900 who wrote (112827)	8/26/2003 8:33:35 AM
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Why the Security Council Failed Michael J. Glennon. Foreign Affairs. New York: May/Jun 2003. Vol. 82, Iss. 3; pg. 16 ISSN/ISBN: 00157120 Abstract (Article Summary) With the dramatic rupture of the UN Security Council, it became clear that the grand attempt to subject the use of force to the rule of law had failed. The problem was not the second Persian Gulf War, but rather an earlier shift in world power toward a configuration that was simply incompatible with the way the UN was meant to function. It was the rise in American unipolarity - not the Iraq crisis - that, along with cultural clashes and different attitudes toward the use of force, gradually eroded the council's credibility. American hegemony will not last forever. Prudence, therefore, counsels creating realistically structured institutions capable of protecting or advancing US national interests - even when military power is unavailable or unsuitable. Yet legalists must be hard-headed about the possibility of devising a new institutional framework anytime soon to replace the battered structure of the Security Council. The forces that led to the council's undoing will not disappear.

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