Key Points
The United Nations' growing irrelevance is due to its political structure, which reflects the balance of power from 1945, and until this is fixed, the UN cannot reverse its course of increasing ineffectiveness. The UN system is attempting endogenous change, but it is highly likely that it will fail in these areas even if world leaders approve of the agenda..
India must invest in creating alternative platforms for global governance, and if the G20 can become the nucleus of a new global high table over the next decade, we might not have to be overly concerned over the UN?s.
In a recent briefing paper published by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Richard Gowan shows how the Secretary-Generals High-Level Advisory Board of Multilateralism has been setting an agenda for change over the past two years..
It resolutely reflects the balance of power of the Industrial Age of 1945, even as that power has not only massively shifted in the past three decades, but human civilization itself has entered the Information Age..
Since the late-2000s, when it became clear that the five permanent members of the Security Council were unlikely accept its expansion, I have argued that India must invest in creating alternative platforms for global governance..
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