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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