1. UnitedNations

2. Purpose • Maintain international peace and security • Develop friendly relations among nations • Cooperate in solving: • Economic • Social • Cultural • Humanitarian problems • Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms

3. Structure • General Assembly • Security Council • Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) • Trusteeship Council • International Court of Justice • Secretariat

4. Reforming the United Nations What kind of UN does the world need for the twenty-first century?

5. Streamlined UN • World gov’t not necessary, feasible or desirable • Mistrust in gov’t in all forms • What happened to national sovereignty • International orgs are not gov’t but servants of gov’t • No accountability and no power

6. World Government • The need for world gov’t is growing • Different interest groups and gov’t look at the world body differently • Global forces have weakened the traditional authority of sovereign nation-states. • UN needs a serious overhaul to prepare it for the years ahead