'Power Politics' and the United Nations
| Autor: | Ruth B. Russell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1970 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis. 25:321-332 |
| ISSN: | 2052-465X 0020-7020 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002070207002500206 |
| Popis: | "Misunderstanding of our problem and discouragement with the results so far achieved may ... be attributed, in no small degree, to a lack of historical perspective in surveying the world as we find it today. . . . The United Nations is no stronger them the collective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing. It is a machinery through which the nations can cooperate. It can be used and developed ... or it can be discarded and broken."1 These words from the first annual report of the first secretary-general have a striking pertinence today, as the United Nations approaches its twenty-fifth anniversary enveloped in an aura of discontent and malaise. The "historical perspective" needed now encompasses the world of the United Nations itself, as well as the preceding period of international turmoil, but Lie's following warning is as apposite today as in 1946. Intergovernmental organization is a relatively new instrument for ordering the relations of peoples; and governments, like individuals, are often wary of the new and reluctant or unimaginative in utilizing its possibilities, especially when to do so goes against established habits.2 |
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