UN Security Council: The Quest for Legitimacy and Adaptation

This research seeks to show that, short of formal reform, the UNSC has achieved nonnegligible change of its practice in a more informal way. I highlight the distinctive value of the process of codification of the UNSC working methods, which I contend, besides being used as a legitimating tool by the UNSC, is also used as a vehicle for change of the practice - and of power of the UNSC. To understand how that change happens in practice I zoom at practices of (de)legitimation of the UNSC and ask ho