The Success of the United Nations

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The paper looks at how Richard Jolly in his article "Global Development Goals: The United Nations Experience" argues that despite the failures that have been obvious during the Cold War and the period following the demise of the USSR, the United Nations reached its aims. The paper discusses Jolly's assertion that the UN has indeed improved the quality of life, the economic aspect of developing countries and the situation of states in general. The paper points out, however, that the major shortcoming of this approach is his focus on the UN's global development goals while he ignores the UN's failure to stop military confrontations. The paper concludes that the UN is a useful and necessary world body; yet the achievements mentioned by Jolly in the global development area must immediately be doubled by political improvements and the UN's reconsideration of its approach to world politics.

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"His main points follow a logical path of argumentation which aims to conclude that although there have been certain failures the UN system deserves to evolve and increase in efficiency. In supporting this claim, he points out several issues which point out the answers to some of the best claims of the opponents of the UN system. In this sense, first and foremost, it has been argued, as the author suggests that the UN goals have been too idealistic. More precisely, this argument has often been invoked to support the idea of the failure of most UN missions in the world. However, Jolly underlines that fact that despite the fact that such goals are rather hard to attain, they are the result of intense negotiations with regard to particular details. Therefore, it can be said that from the point of view of Richard Jolly the Charter of the UN as well as the different other legal documents which state the ideals of the global organization are not simply declarative documents, but rather they represent the result of compromise and diplomacy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Jolly, Richard. 2004. 'Global Development Goals: the United Nations experience', Journal of Human Development, 5:1, pp 69 - 95.
• Russbach, Oliver. 1994. ONU contre ONU. Le droit international confisque. Edition La Decouverte, Paris.
• Schlesinger, Stephen. 2003. Act of Creation. The Founding of the United Nations. Westview, Colorado.

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