The United Nations Security Council in the ‘New World Order’: Reforming to Meet the New Security and Development Challenges of the Post-Cold War World

More than a decade now since the fall of the Berlin Wall, one has to wonder what ever happened to the new world order. To be sure, market democracy marches on in many areas of the world, exposing a larger share of humanity to greater opportunity and wealth. Nonetheless, civil and regional conflicts are proliferate after the Cold War, threatening the very existence of some states (for example, Congo, Macedonia, Nigeria) and aggravating major power relations in the political and military dimensions.