Multilateral diplomacy is about talk and argument among states and involved a high level of conspiracy according to Jeniffer Mitzen (2005). The mulitlateral diplomacy that surrounded NATO's intervention in Kosovo is widely perceived as legitimate when compared to the American-led coalition's Second Iraq War in 2003 is widely considered as illegitimate (Johnstone,2004) because of the way the US conducted its multilateral diplomacy without UN sanction (Rubin,2003) and under the pretext of going after Iraq's WMD. The late Dr.David Kelly had already argued and presented his findings and confirmed that there were no WMD in Iraq, so to shut him up he was bumped off, claimed to be suicide.
Where legitimation is accomplished through argument , future disagreement must always be possible, but it must not devolve into violence and conflict that can destroy the social order (J.Mitzen), and one would add to mislead the UN member states in multilateral diplomacy and loses all credbility in the conduct of international relations.
James Rubin , " Stumbling Into War ", in Foreign Affairs 2003 (September/October)46-66.
Jennifer Mitzen : Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Public Spheres, in American Political Science Review , Vol.99,No.3,August 2005.
Ian Johnstone, : US-UN Relations After Iraq : The End of the World (Order) as We Know It ? , in Europen Journal of International Law 15(December): 813-838
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