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- Title: Decisiveness and Accountability As Part of a Principled Response to Nonstate Threats: "a Threat to One is a Threat to All": Nonstate Threats and Collective Security.
- Author : Ethics & International Affairs
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 283 KB
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The moral authority of an institution depends on the belief that it is legitimate by those who are to be governed by its rules or who support it. Legitimacy implies a right to make rules. This fight is conferred either through the quality of the processes used to produce the rules--"inputs'--or the quality of the results achieved--"outputs." Input legitimacy is achieved through following established procedures of authorization and activity that are consistent with standards conforming to prevailing concepts of fairness, even if not of perfect justice. The procedures must include considerable transparency, mechanisms for accountability, and integrity--that is, a pattern of practices consistent with the stated purposes of the institution. Output legitimacy is achieved through a record of accomplishments that can be judged, on the whole, to be good--and, crucially, better than any feasible alternative institutional arrangements would have produced. The central institutions of the United Nations have substantially lost moral authority since the Millennium Summit of 2000. The inability to act on issues involving the use of force, the failure at the 2005 World Summit to agree on a definition of terrorism, the Oil-for-Food scandal, and the perceived cronyism of so many delegations have undermined the moral authority of the General Assembly and the Security Council.