The man who wrote the book on the U.N. Security Council tells
how it’s handling Syria  Russia's ambassador to the United
Nations, Vitaly Churkin, speaks during a Security Council
meeting at the United Nations in New York in April last year.
(Allison Joyce/REUTERS)  David Bosco is an assistant professor
of international politics at American University's School of
International Service. He is the author of "Five to Rule Them
All," a history of the U.N. Security Council. He writes the
Multilateralist blog for Foreign Policy magazine; you can find
him on Twitter @multilateralist. We talked on the phone
Wednesday morning about how the Syria situation is likely play
out at the U.N. A lightly edited transcript follows.  So what
would you say are the main issues the council is facing now?  I
think what's going on now is that the French and the U.S. and
the Brits really want to try to nail down this notion of Syria
handing over its chemical weapons in the form of a binding
Security Council resolution, and they want it