The U.N. Security Council Was Designed for Deadlock: Can it Change?

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, its permanent seat at the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) quickly snarled the prospects of multilateral action. Eighty-one of the U.N.'s 193 member-states cosponsored a resolution denouncing the invasion - a clear violation of the core principles of the U.N. Charter and international law - and Russia, exercising its privileges as a permanent member, immediately and unilaterally vetoed it. The year since Russia's invasion has only strengthened an already-widespread consensus on how broken the UNSC is, with subsequent calls for change gathering real momentum. Still, real structural reform remains a distant prospect: no matter how much they publicly acknowledge its unjust rules, permanent members are unlikely to undermine their own advantages in the council. But there are other, more informal engines of change at the UNSC.

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