ABSTRACT
The conclusion summarises the book’s core premises and its main findings about the United Nations Security Council and its primary responsibility for international peace and security. I discuss how my findings contribute to a more complex understanding of Security Council responsibility by taking seriously the role of public Council meetings in constituting its normative foundations. I also argue that understanding normative controversy is a promising approach for studying a broad array of contestation processes within international organisations and international relations. I conclude by discussing potential fields for future research, most notably by shifting from the negotiation to the implementation of responsibility and investigating the role of external actors in implementing Security Council responsibility, the various roles of the Security Council and its interorganisational relations and attributions of responsibility, and the importance of social communities related to normative orders.
