Strengths And Weaknesses Of The United Nations

This article is initially about the experience of a former UN official who share his concerns and thoughts about the management and the long existence of bureaucratic culture within the United Nations since its creation. The author discusses and evaluates the UN strengths and weaknesses and the reasons why it’s not always able to carry out its mission successfully. Also, the author further discusses that how the member states have always been protesting to the decisions and the structure of the United Nations. The author explains that how some members states misusing from their powers and forcing the United Nations to make changes in the organization 's decisions when it 's not to their interest and that unfortunately further adds to the UN

As the former employee of the United Nations, the author discusses the challenges, strengths, and weaknesses of the UN and the reasons why it has not always been successful as the only most respected organization which act as a platform for international collaborations. According to the author, despite, the UN since its creation had commendable achievements in education, economic, social and humanitarian issues, yet it has not been more than just a platform for discussion and dialogue in other important global matters like international peace and security. As a result many of the member states including the civil societies and international organizations have always been complaining of the unjust and unfair internal structure of the UN, which often block the path toward an effective global governance. The complexity of the internal structure of the UN obviously raised concerns over issues of access to, and fair participation in the international affairs among the member states.

The basic approach to reform should answer a few questions: what the UN is supposed to do? Is it really ready to embrace a fundamental reform? What should be done to restore public trust to the United Nations goals and objectives and what are the means for the realization of this goal? Indeed, a fundamental reform would be the last resort to make the UN less impacted over the world powers’ influence, which they often undermine and challenge the UN success with their unnecessary intervention.

Unfortunately the UN has long been encountering with bureaucracy and that has been threatening the UN mission 's success. For instance, some important member states like the U. S. opposes a reform, which may leads to dissolve or increase in the number of Security Council members. The U.S. realizes that the UNSC is the only place where United States is permitted to advance its foreign policy and any major reform in the structure of the UN and the UNSC in particular would leads loss of influence in the