In a landmark speech to the United Nations , the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, demanded that Russia and other aggressors should be stripped of their veto power in the UN security council.
International survey on UN reform In a recent article, published in International Studies Quarterly, my colleagues and I explored what citizens around the world thought about such proposals for UN reform as have been made by Zelensky, Biden, and others for decades. My co-authors Mathias Koenig-Archibugi , Luis Cabrera and I surveyed people in six countries: Argentina, China, India, Russia, Spain, and the United States.
We found that respondents tended to support strengthening or at least maintaining the current authority level of the UN, and making its structures more representative of the world population. We found that diverging views on UN reforms are associated with personal political values such as cultural libertarianism versus traditionalism . Responses also differed between citizens of countries that have permanent seats on the UN security council and those that do not.