Blurb:
The Security Council, the all-powerful UN body for maintaining world peace, remains mired in its World War II origins. The victors, the US, Russia, China, Britain, and France, continue to control it with their permanent membership and the veto. Their confrontations emasculated the Council during the Cold War and their cooperation spawned questionable military actions thereafter. The book traces the origins of international security cooperation and scrutinizes the moorings of the Security Council’s powers in international law. It critiques the permanent five’s manipulation of the Council to aggressively strengthen their global dominance and legitimise their exercise of power. Their doctrines and actions in countries like Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Libya have hindered the Council’s evolution as a responsible body which has the trust of a globalising world. This book is an essential read for practitioners and scholars to understand the Security Council and the failure to reform it.
My Review:
Legitimacy of power by Dilip Sinha is a non-fiction about the Security council which is one of the the powerful organs of UN. It plays a significant responsibility in maintaining world peace and security. After the failure of the League of Nation which leads to the second world war, the UN was formed on 1945 in United States to prevent another conflict.
The book has 16 chapters which explains the importance of the security council, how it works and the five permanent members of the UN. This book gives detailed view of UNSC touching every nook and corner of it. This book is full of knowledge flooded with The UN charter, The Korean Operation, the failure of League of Nation.
I love the author’s simple way of explaining things more precisely and the endnotes in the every chapter would be useful for the person who wants to gain more knowledge in that particular section. The cover is so much more perfect for the book as it displays the General assembly which is one of the six organs of the UN.
How much effects the author had taken to gather the information about UNSC was clearly seen in this book.
I would recommend this book to the person who love reading about the international security and who are willing to learn something new.
Deepireads 