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Or, is it just time to reform the UN based upon the exigencies of the “new world order” in the post-Cold War world? Such questions, require elaboration. The founders of the UN envisioned an organization built on collective security with its strength lodged in the Security Council. At the end of World War II, however, a bipolar world along East–West lines Scott P. Morgan 37 emerged, making a unified Security Council difficult to achieve. Along with this bipolarization came a rapid and unanticipated decolonization movement, with the UN pioneering the way.

Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left 38 United States Post-Cold War Defence Interests some 20 million dead. 9 Was the UN really rendered powerless by this division? ”10 Examining the vetoes yields a better idea of their effects: 51 of the 114 Soviet vetoes between 1946 and 1987 were cast on membership applications. S. S. political reasons such as averting criticism of Israel, while many of the 32 British vetoes were cast against issues regarding Southern Rhodesia.

In the case of Third World states, internal civil wars during the period of the consolidative stage of their socio-political development may unfortunately be seen as positive steps towards building stable societies – but at great human cost. Certainly the legitimization of Washington, as the American federation’s authoritative capital, was the major long-term product of America’s bloody Civil War. If this is a valid paradigm, the foremost response by the international community may be to prevent intervention as it may introduce further polarization and prolongation of the war.

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