{"id":284970,"date":"2024-02-28T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=284970"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:13:22","slug":"inefficiency-of-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inefficiency-of-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Inefficiency of United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>-This post on the <strong>Inefficiency of United Nations <\/strong>has been created based on the article \u201c<strong>The global order \u2014 a fraying around many edges<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201c<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>\u201d on 26 February 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>-The article highlights the challenges to post-World War order and limitation of the United Nation in addressing this challenge.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the challenges to post world war order?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) <strong>Major global institutions dominated by the west-<\/strong> The old-world powers like U.S.A and European colonial countries controls power structures of the new institutions.<br \/>\nFor ex- a) The World Bank is always headed by an American citizen. b) Western Europe gets to nominate the head of the IMF.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Veto power of permanent members<\/strong>&#8211; Developing world has tried to group under G-77 and NAM to advance their legitimate demands. However, they could not overcome the veto at the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Rise of ad-hoc groups<\/strong>&#8211; There are many multilaterals and plurilateral groupings. For ex-OECD, QUAD etc.<br \/>\nHowever, they have a narrow focus and do not address issues of global concern. It attaches more importance to regional interest than global interest.<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Covid Pandemic-<\/strong>It has aggravated the problems of de-globalization by restriction on movement of people.<\/p>\n<p>5) <strong>Regional wars<\/strong>&#8211; Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, war in Gaza has exposed the failure of U.N. to protect the violation of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed article on the<strong> Shortcomings of UN<\/strong> can be <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-the-shortcomings-of-un-is-the-united-nations-toothless-in-ending-wars\/#gsc.tab=0\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Can any regional organization replace the UN system?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) The organizations and groupings outside the UN are all ad hoc and serve limited interests rather than universal values.<\/p>\n<p>2) Organization like North Atlantic Treaty Organization are limited alliances created to ensure regional security.<\/p>\n<p>3) Most of the organizations do not have global treaties and binding legal obligations thus they are not effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>&#8211; The United nation may have its own challenges but there is no regional institution which can replace it. Hence, there is a need for changes in the functioning of the United Nations so that it can ensure global peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on the Inefficiency of United Nations has been created based on the article \u201cThe global order \u2014 a fraying around many edges\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 26 February 2024. News-The article highlights the challenges to post-World War order and limitation of the United Nation in addressing this challenge. What are the challenges&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inefficiency-of-united-nations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inefficiency of United Nations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-284970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}