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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I don't see how the UN is ruled as failed because the P5 states refuse to support it. It seems to me they're the reason why the UN isn't able to enforce its own resolutions.
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So... all it amounts to is a large peer-pressure organization? Lovely.
Using a business analogy, a company is only as strong as the support that the board of directors / executive body gets. The executive of a company can decide to go in one direction but unless the working body goes along with it then the executive is useless and the company fails. Company executives can fire people - why their orders are usually followed.
The UN? Nothing but peer pressure in the vast majority of cases.
[QUOTE=Agamemnon]To be a global forum for diplomacy? To keep the lines of communications open among the world's governments in a formal way?
Free trade deals (one type of diplomatic action) never need the UN. The G8 meetings never need the UN.
The most publicized diplomacy we see from/at the UN is when something goes wrong (wars, human rights, etc) and action is needed.
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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
To coordinate world-wide relief programs encompassing every social and humanitarian issue that exists?
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This is an extremely valuable part of the UN. That cannot be denied. That said, it is not the part that we are discussing. The program(s) will go on without resolution issuing body that is so very ineffective.