What Next for the UN?:The challenges of global disorder

The year 2000 has been designated as the "United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace" and the "International Year of Thanksgivings". Whether such hopeful words can be justified will depend on whether the international community can provide the political will to make the UN an effective body. In a world beset by conflict, poverty and environmental decline, a feeble UN would be bad news for mankind. A strong UN would provide hope for a better world in the 21st century.

This briefing, which replaces the 1994 edition, looks at the present complex structure of the UN and its relations with other international bodies such as NATO and the IMF, highlights its achievements as well as its failures, and looks at likely developments in the next century.

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