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• Winner of Winner, ACUNS Book Award.

Overview

Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security, but not all threats. Why does the Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions, if they take any action at all? Adapting insights from legislative bargaining, this book demonstrates that the agenda-setting powers granted in the institutional rules offer less powerful Council members the opportunity to influence the content of a resolution without jeopardizing its passage. The Council also decides when to conduct public or private diplomacy. The analysis shows how external factors like international and domestic public reactions motivate grandstanding behaviors and shape resolutions. New quantitative data on meetings and outside options provide support for these claims. The book also explores the dynamics of the formal analysis in three cases: North Korean nuclear proliferation, the negotiations leading up to NATO bombing in Serbia over Kosovo, and the elected member-led process to codify the principles of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The book argues that while the powerful veto members do have great influence over the Council, the rules of the most consequential security institution influence its policy outcomes, just as they do in any other international institution.

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Although the book is excellent on the internal matters of the security council * D. P. Forsythe, CHOICE *

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Susan Hannah Allen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2004. Her research interests include international organizations, economic sanctions, and consequences of military coercion. Her work appears in numerous journals including International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research. Amy Yuen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is author of several articles about intervention, peacekeeping, and the Security Council appearing in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research. She has also published formal and empirical papers on research methods and American politics in journals such as Political Analysis and Political Research Quarterly.

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