Playdoyer for an EU Strategy Towards Reform of UNSC

Abstract

In 2021, EU declared it as a policy to reform the United Nations Security Council, but failed to adopt a strategy. Thus, this paper outlines a three-tiered approach toward UNSC reform, consisting of a European approach encompassing (1) UNFCCC-diplomacy (2) Further IMF Reform (3) energy governance (4) CostBenefit Analysis of UN human development goals. The second element is an incorporation of Germany’s UNSC bid into EU’s overall strategizing. The third element is further development of EU’s official strategy, which henceforth has relied on environmental diplomacy and leveraging the EU’s purse on development aid. In doing so, the paper evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of EU’s role within the four multilateral policy areas and suggest their mutual interdependence. The underlying problem is a mix of blockage of thinking and the development of consciousness about the supranational actors’ “duties” rather than an absence of political ambition. Thus, the EU needs to be better organized, and more strategic about its UNSC bid.