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Source: http://www.cis.org.au/Events/JBL/JBL04.htm
The Crisis of Legitimacy: America and the World
(Centre for Independent Studies-Australia)Robert Kagan - Ever since the UN's creation almost six decades ago, the Security Council has failed to function as the UN's more idealistic founders intended. And it has never been accepted as the sole source of international legitimacy, not even by Europeans. Europe's recent demand that the U.S. seek UN authorization for the Iraq war, and presumably for all future wars, was a novel - even revolutionary - proposition. The writer is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.