Has the UN a Future?

Abstract

We have not, in the earlier chapters, dealt with criticisms now voiced about the political role of the United Nations, except incidentally. But the UN has faults, like any human institution. Are these faults those one would expect to find in a large and complex multi-purpose intergovernmental organization at the end of its fifth decade, or are they faults which could have been prevented if only the states of which the UN is composed had been more altruistic or more far-sighted?