CSS Essay Outline: The United Nation has Failed to Measure Up to the Demands of its Charter
1. Introduction
2. UN Charter – Its features
3. How has the UN failed to measure up to the demands of its charter?
3.1 The UN’s failure on Political Front:
b. Failed to come up with the peaceful resolution of international disputes.
c. Failed to ensure the Right of Self Determination to all peoples.
d. Unable to ensure Sovereign Equality of the weaker states
i. The recent invasions breaching the laws regarding ‘Use of Force’
ii. Violation of Territorial Integrity of weaker states
iii. Violation of Geneva Conventions
3.2 The UN’s letdown in the Security Domain:
a. Growing Nuclearization of the world – A threat to international peace and security
i. Nuclear Arms race in South Asia
ii. GCC states threatened to start their own unclear program.
b. Escalating political and maritime disputes – A menace for universal peace
i. Disputes in South-China Sea
ii. Re-militarization of Japan
iii. Russian resurgence— Beginning of a new Cold War
c. Emergence of Complex Transnational Issues
i. Terrorism – ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda,
ii. Vicious Wave of proxy and civil wars
iii. Exacerbating environmental conditions
iv. Global Refugee Crisis