Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness? For Bolivia’s Bol Press, Professor Alvaro Cuadra of Chile’s Universidad ARCIS writes that just as the League of Nations collapsed when World War II broke out – making it’s failure obvious, the U.N., born out of WWII, has similarly proven itself incapable of many of its central tenets, including ‘saving future generations from the scourge of war.’
For Bolivia’s Bol Press, Professor Alvaro Cuadra writes in part:
The U.N. was conceived of as a great forum for addressing issues of concern to all humanity, not the least of which are: to protect future generations from the scourge of war; reaffirm peoples’ faith in fundamental human rights; create the conditions for upholding justice and respect for international treaties; and promote social progress and better standards of living. Confronted with the current state of the world, one might easily think that as the League of Nations failed to prevent the world from descending into barbarism, the United Nations has become little more than a politically inept and ineffective bureaucracy that provides demagogic speeches on behalf of the world’s powerful.
The diluted role of the U.N. in world affairs is one of the symptoms showing a crisis of global institutions in this century. When any large multinational corporation has a higher budget than many states, and when such firms have a greater capacity to function on a global scale than the United Nations – it is a sign that the global political space within which the U.N. sought to preserve peace and justice has become something else: a market prepared to preserve profits at any cost, regardless of whether it involves the environment or condemns millions to poverty – and without the slightest concern for the flag of some small country clamoring for its sovereignty.
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