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Title: United Nations


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United Nations
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Purpose
  • Maintain international peace and security
  • Develop friendly relations among nations
  • Cooperate in solving
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Cultural
  • Humanitarian problems
  • Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms

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Structure
  1. General Assembly
  2. Security Council
  3. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  4. Trusteeship Council
  5. International Court of Justice
  6. Secretariat

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Reforming the United Nations
  • What kind of UN does the world need for the
    twenty-first century?

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Streamlined UN
  • World govt not necessary, feasible or desirable
  • Mistrust in govt in all forms
  • What happened to national sovereignty
  • International orgs are not govt but servants of
    govt
  • No accountability and no power

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World Government
  • The need for world govt is growing
  • Different interest groups and govt look at the
    world body differently
  • Global forces have weakened the traditional
    authority of sovereign nation-states.
  • UN needs a serious overhaul to prepare it for the
    years ahead

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