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How does the UN serve great powers?


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Great power management is a prominent factor in global governance that implies a managerial responsibility to sustain and promote international order. In this sense, not only for the stability of the international system but also for the sake of their own superior status, great powers “establish international institutions and arrangements to further or preserve their interests and positions of advantage into the future, even as they do not directly or fully control those future arrangements” (Barnett and Duvall, 2005: 58). This practice seems to have continued since the League of Nations era. In fact, the United Nations reflects a combined structure of sovereign equality of all members in the General Assembly and the legalized hegemony of the great powers in the UN Security Council (Buzan, 2014: 103-04). As William Inboden argues, “a nation cannot be a great power without at least having a significant voice as the UN, the IMF, and the World Bank” (Inboden, 2009: 24-25).