Is The United Nations A Desirable Enforcer Of Interntional Order ?
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This essay questions whether the United Nations has the capacity for taking objective, independent action to maintain international order. Written during the 'new world order', that brief period of co-operation between the United States and the USSR, it concludes the UN’s capacity to enforce collective security on an objective basis will always be curtailed by the interests of the Security Council's permanent members, its lack of a monopoly on the use of collective force and its inability to take decisive action.
Justin Cahill
Welcome to my Smashwords profile.I am a New Zealand-born writer, based in Sydney. My main interests are nature and history.My thesis was on the negotiations between the British and Chinese governments over the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It was used as a source in Dr John Wong’s Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, the standard work on that conflict.I wrote a column on the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley for the Earlwood News (sadly, now defunct) between 1992 and 1998.My short biography of the leading Australian ornithologist, Alfred North (1855-1917), was published in 1998.I write regular reviews on books about history for my blog,’ Justin Cahill Reviews’ and Booktopia. I’m also a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Heckler' column.My current projects include completing the first history of European settlement in Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people and a study of the extinction of Sydney’s native birds.After much thought, I decided to make my work available on Smashwords. Australia and New Zealand both have reasonably healthy print publishing industries. But, like it or not, the future lies with digital publishing.So I’m grateful to Mark Coker for having the vision to establish Smashwords and for the opportunity to distribute my work on it.
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Is The United Nations A Desirable Enforcer Of Interntional Order ? - Justin Cahill
Is the United Nations a desirable
enforcer of international order ?
Justin Cahill
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Cover: Photograph of the UN Security Council Chamber, taken in April 2013 after its refurbishment by the New York-based photographer John Hill and reproduced with his kind permission. It is posted on Mr Hill’s website ‘A Daily Dose of Architecture’ at http://archidose.blogspot.com.au.
Preface
I
1991 saw the waning of that brief period of co-operation between the superpowers known as the ‘new world order’. It had come about due to the gradual collapse of the Soviet empire from 1989. With the end of the Cold War, many hoped the bi-polar regime that had dominated world affairs since 1945 would give way to a new system in which the superpowers would work together for world peace.
The main hope for the new order was that the United Nations would at last begin to function as an objective enforcer of collective security. Such hopes were encouraged by