The Un Security Council And Informal Groups Of States: Complementing Or Competing For Governance?

The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States This page intentionally left blank The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States: Complementing or Competing for Governance? JOCHEN PRANTL 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ß Jochen Prantl 2006 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn ISBN 0-19-928768-6 978-0-19-928768-0 To my parents Irmela and Helmuth Prantl with love v This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction ix xi 3 Part I Informal Groups of States and the UN Security Council: Grasping the Dynamics 23 1. Janus-faced Structure of the Security Council: Open System and Closed Shop 29 2. Emergence of Informal Groups of States 45 3. Proliferation of Informal Groups in the Post-Bipolar Era 70 4. Conclusion: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty as Analytical Framework 87 Part II The Cases of Namibia, El Salvador, and Kosovo 91 5. Namibia: Group of Three and Western Contact Group 95 6. El Salvador: Group of Friends of the UN Secretary-General 159 7. Kosovo: Quint, G-8, and Troika 209 Conclusions: Implications for Governance of the UN Security Council 249 Appendix: Interviews Conducted 257 Bibliography Index 259 281 vii This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements This book could not have been written without the help of a large group of colleagues, mentors, and friends indeed. It is based on my doctoral thesis which I have written at Oxford and Yale. I am greatly indebted to both Adam Roberts and Bruce Russett, who encouraged me early on to embark on this endeavour. The project received financial support fro