Which countries should be the permanent members of UN security council?
A New-Look Security Council: What Makes a Winner?
by Barbara Crossette
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UNITED NATIONS—With a majority of nations agreeing that the power structure of the Security Council is decades out of date, and Secretary General Kofi Annan ready to force debate on how to fix it through his new international thinkers’ panel on “threats, challenges and change,” the question of which countries might rightly claim new permanent seats is becoming less hypothetical.
Should population be the guide? What about economic power? Military strength? Commitment to democracy and the rule of law?