The High- Level Panel here seeks to expand the justificatory obligations of the Security
Council. It assumes that the Security Council as a political organ representing the
otherwise: secretive security interests of powerful states is nonetheless part of a political
community, to which it must account publicly for the bases of its decisions to authorize
(or refuse to authorize) the use of force against Third World states. Arguments about
the need for the international community to exercise responsibility while protecting were
made strongly by states such as Brazil in the aftermath of the NATO intervention against
Libya (Government of Brazil 2011 ).