The Pros And Cons Of The United Nations

Since the United States sought to fight an injustice: Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait for unbacked accusations, and pressures to forgive a debt, the Jus Ad Bellum theory would approve the United States’ participation in this

The United launched a War on Terror, no nameable adversary other than terror. Bin Laden organized his attack to punish the unjust, in his eyes, America was the evil one. He witnessed the American-Israeli alliance first-hand and saw them invade, destroy, and kill his

Established in 1945 after the World War II, United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ among the six organs in United Nations with the authorized power to issue legally binding resolutions. This council consists of 15 members, 5 Permanent Members – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China – and 10 Non-Permanent Members voted by the UNGA for 2 years term. According to the charter, the responsibility of UNSC is to maintain international peace and security. It determines the threat to peace and act of aggressor; moreover, it investigates any disputes between the UN Member states. The United Nations Security Council also has the military force to prevent or stop the aggressor. Essentially, the council generates Peacekeeping Operation or applies a sanction to member states. In addition, the P5 of the UNSC have the veto power which allows them to veto against any resolutions within the UN. However, there have been far too many concerns over the skeptical roles of the UNSC in the 21st century. The P5 seem to use their powers mostly for pursuing their own interest. Furthermore, the actions initiated by the council are mostly inefficient in response to international issues. Therefore, this paper is designed to illustrate reasons why the UNSC should be reformed.

On October 24, 1945, the United Nations was created to prevent any wars from occurring again after the World Wars. The countries signed a contract to maintain peace and start the “peacekeeper” system. This made the world a safer place until the Rwanda Genocide. During the time of the genocide, the UN almost ignored the situation completely. The UN sent in their Peacekeepers to ensure the safety of American citizens who are in Rwanda and bring them to a sanctuary.

These attacks caused havoc on the United States of America, and even after Bin Laden’s death, scars remain. According to the article written by Shmoop Editorial Team,

The objective of these speeches was to change the world politically, economically and socially, and they succeeded. By materializing this enemy known as “terrorism”, George Bush changed the world. In his Remarks Following a Meeting With the National Security Team, George Bush labels the attacks of 9/11 as “acts of war” (Bush 2001, 1100). For the first time in

The U.S. enters into sovereign nations and strips the people of their government. Empires were viewed as having denied one people their rights; by our military intervening in their political structures we are denying them their right to choose their form of government. Who

The two rhetorical devices that President Bush attributed into the speech of 9-11 focuses on the mourning of the victims and the strength of the United States. Bush demonstrated that with the use of metaphor and personification. Using the metaphor, he compared America to steel saying that America is like steel but can’t be bent. Personification was used to mourn the victims giving the traits of shattering to the world. World meaning the persons everything, that their whole world was that person and their passing away shows their world being

President Woodrow Wilson established America’s goal for joining World War I as “making the world safe for democracy.” At the conclusion of the War, President Wilson declared fourteen principles for peace to be used during the Paris Peace Conference, called the Fourteen Points. The most important of these points was the final point: a general association of nations with the guarantees of political and territorial independence and security. As the Peace Conference progressed, more nations ratified the Treaty of Versailles and joined the League of Nations, the embodiment of President Wilson’s fourteenth point. However, Senate the United States, from President Wilson’s own country, did not ratify the treaty.

On what was expected to be another day for every American became a burning memory in both Americans and America’s history. September 11, 2001 was the day where fear shook America into recklessly declaring war on terror against Iraq. At 8:46 am, the North Tower of the World Trade Center is interrupted by the American Airline Flight 11 by Mohammed Atta and the hijackers (History); seventeen long minutes later, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is also interrupted by the United Airlines Flight 175 by the other hijackers (History). In order to fight for the endangerment of America’s freedom was being attacked, President George Bush and the Bush Administration contrustred an aggressive invasion in the Middle East. In response to this, George

This led the way into creating the United Nations. However remaining neutral wasn’t possible for the U.S., on December 7, 1941 The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor forcing America to join the war. Throughout the war Roosevelt was commander in chief in World War II, one of his greatest war moments was the invasion of Normandy, France, which was the turning point of the war defeating the Axis Powers. After the war ended, the United Nations was formed in order to create treaties and solve international

Following the 9-11 attacks, on September 17th 2001, President George. W.Bush confirmed to America and the watching world Osama Bin Laden the,dictator and ruler of the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda was the plotting mastermind behind these vicious attacks. The President made a history defining speech on November 10, 2001, declaring a Global “War on Terror”, which in turn highlights the overall large scale significance of 9-11, and furthermore highlighting the renewed stance and direction US Domestic and Foreign Policy was taking as well as an unprecedented Presidential phase within US Politics and Government, in the wake of these terror attacks. Furthermore the significance of 9-11 was evidenced in Bush’s speech in which he articulated, “we

The League of Nations was an international organization created 1919 by the American president, Woodrow Wilson, as a part of his Fourteen Points. The League was meant to maintain universal peace and resolve international disputes between nations to avoid a repeat of the First World War. The League of Nations had some successes in maintaining universal peace, however, there numerous failures as well. Some of the successes include the Åland Islands crisis and the Upper Silesia incident. Some of the failures of the League include the events that took place in Manchuria and Abyssinia.This essay will examine some of the successes and failures of the League of Nations in terms of maintaining peace between countries.

With the security council as its quasi-leader, the UN is able to generate and pass out resolutions when international matters need to be addressed. Though, like every IGO, the UN is non binding, IGOs like the UN survive based off the four principles aforementioned in the second paragraph. The UN has been successful in resolving several conflicts, which is an idea that stays parallel with neoliberal theory. Through varying peace enforcement measures, the UN has managed to resolve conflicts such as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, reach and establish peace in Cote d’ivoire, and resolve ethnic conflict in Kosovo. Though these initiatives required the use of force, they helped reduce war and genocide, and returned the world to the status

On the 24th of October 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence. On that day, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at a United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up and sign the United Nations Charter (UN, History of the United Nations). The United Nations Charter is a document that states what the United Nations is. In Chapter 1, “PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES Article 1” one of the points states that a purpose of the UN is to keep international unity and to remove anything that threatens peace (Nations, 1945). Even though at first international laws may seem to only include human rights, they are much more complex and they affect us in many different ways.