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Boutros Boutros-
Ghali and the
question about UN
Secretary General
relevance, por Ana
Carolina Mauad
27/02/2016 Política Internacional
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This month, on February 16th, Boutros
Boutros-Ghali died. He was the United Nations
Secretary General (UNSG) from 1992 to 1996,
right after the end of Cold War, a singular time
for
international relations. As the international
system was confronting a period of transition
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from Cold War to an unknown world order
marked by turbulence (ROSENAU, 1990), the
United Nations General Assembly nominated
the first African UNSG in its history. This move
signalized that the world was no longer limit
by two major powers and its areas of
influence; it would encompass all its totality.
This was the spirit of the time, although no
substantial reform was made in the decision-
making structures such as the Security Council
to balance the old powers. In this sense, the
question about the role of the Secretary
General is inevitable.
Due to the organogram of the institution and
the decision making process, the role of UNSG
in practice is less determinant than anyone
would though of the leading chief of the
central international organization of States.
Nevertheless, the symbolic weight it holds is
significant. The values incorporated by the
UNSG are rapid spread among the
international community, the persona who
assume the title gains instantaneous attention
from media and people across the world. All
this attention is usually drain to some issue on
the agenda, normally a controversy one. In
this matter, Boutros Boutros-Ghali symbolized
the world forgotten – or even though
inexistent, by some – until then in world
affairs. His nomination marked the idea that
international community should be extend to
those “lost” places of the earth.
Boutros-Ghali´s term was marked by the
summits of the 1990s, a well-thought-out
sequence of conferences with social content
(ALVES, 2001). In the context of the end of Cold
War, there was space for some hope, and this
feeling was present in the referred events.
There was such an active mood in the
international arena that the heads of States
were willing to often travel to distant places to
debate about environment and sustainability
relevance, por
Ana Carolina
Mauad
iRel-UnB
promove
Mesa Redonda
“A Guerra Civil
na Síria”
Diálogos
Indiretos:
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Brasil
redefinem
uma relação
em crise, por
Carlos
Frederico
Gama
Uma Visão
Comparada
das Relações
Brasil-China:O
Plano Decenal
(2012) e o
Plano de Ação
Conjunta
(2015),
porCristina
Pecequilo
&Emerson
Junqueira
Rússia no
Oriente Médio
– a paz cada
vez mais
difícil, por
Virgílio Arraes
Em busca da
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conflitos
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(Rio 92), human rights (Vienna, 1993),
population and development (Cairo, 1994),
woman´s right (Beijing, 1995), social
development (Copenhagen, 1995) and human
settlements (Istanbul, 1996). After such a
marathon of summits, the leaders were
exhausted and the social themes were finally
sentence as international matters.
In the process to include new themes in the
agenda other than those traditionally
covenant by States, it became also necessary
to embrace adequate actors. In this sense,
UNSG Boutros-Ghali had an important role in
claiming that the United Nations in particular,
and the international system, in general,
should welcome negotiators others than the
regular diplomats in international
conferences. Such position may not been well
understand at the time, as it had some
resistance from nation States to incorporate
NGOs, youth advocacy networks, mayors and
other leaderships into national preparation
processes and official delegations. This
underlying conflict may have got in the way of
Ghali´s second term.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the first of many
things in United Nations, the first Secretary
General from Africa and the first not to be re-
elected. From 1992 to 1996, the world faced so
many significant events for international
relations history that its consequences are still
been studied and not entirely understand.
Three of those occasions that we can
underline are starvation crisis in Somalia,
Bosnia conflict and Ruanda genocide. While
the world affairs elite were discussing social
themes such as human rights, they were also
closing their eyes to systematic and brutal
violation of human live in those places – with
the acquiesce of the media. The impact of
these tragedies, amid conflicts with the Clinton
administration, made impossible a second
armados
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Sanders: um
“socialista
democrático”
nas eleições
dos EUA, por
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Caçador
Varnhagen –
Uma fundação
do Brasil, por
José Flávio
Sombra
Saraiva
Os impactos
do
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term for Boutros-Ghali.
A quick watch at Boutros Boutros-Ghali period
as United Nations Secretary General is an
overlook at international history. That is how
we should analyse any UNSG term and its role
for international relations. A UNSG may not be
able to change the world – as one could guess
– but it can certainly reflect the spirit of its
time and introduce, even as only in a symbolic
way, the defiance questions that the
international community – and Humanity as
whole – no longer can escape.
The role of Boutros-Ghali as UNSG was more
than just symbolic, it represented changes in
the international community and its main
organization, exemplifying that we should
always pay attention to a nomination and the
role of a United Nations Secretary General,
even though it has lost most of its leading part
and relevance in twenty-first century
dynamics.
Therefore, with Ban Ki-moon´s end of term
approaching, the debate surrounding the post
has gained the news and some speculation is
being make. Thus, if the UNSG position has a
significant role in setting the agenda of its
time, than it is more than the stage to name a
woman for the highest post in United Nations.
A woman´s nomination would be just in pace
with the recent call for gender equality
echoing around the world and claimed by the
organization´s campaign “He for She”[1].
References:
ALVES, José Augusto L. Relações
Internacionais e Temas Sociais – a década
das conferências. Brasília: IBRI, 2001.
ROSENAU, James. Turbulence in World
Politics: a theory of change and continuity.
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
pensamento
estratégico de
Francisco
Adolfo de
Varnhagen,
por Paulo
Roberto de
Almeida
O
Bicentenário
de Varnhagen,
por Sérgio
Eduardo
Moreira Lima
O pensamento
estratégico de
Francisco
Adolfo de
Varnhagen,
por Paulo
Roberto de
Almeida
Venezuela,
Argentina y el
MERCOSUR:
mejor dentro
que fuera, por
Víctor M.
Mijares &
Nicolás M.
Comini
A expansão do
poderio militar
russo no mar
cáspio, por
Guilherme
Mello
Understandin
g the Assange
decision, by
Gilberto
Antonio
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[1] Information about the campaign can be
reach at: http://www.heforshe.org/en
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