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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 78676"><p>The UN themselves don't necessarily have an awful lot of power to prevent catastophies, but what they provide is a forum in which states can readily air their issues and as such have helped provide us with what has been termed a more "mature anarchy" in international relations. They also provide the necessary frameworks with which countries can (although it's far from foolproof) use to solve their differences diplomatically.</p><p></p><p>Just while we're on the topic though, how many people know that the UN was originally supposed to have a massive standing army that encompassed 10% of every member states military? It was under the banner of 'collective security', but essentially failed to stand because larger nations such as the US, France UK the Soviets etc were all put off by the idea that a massive international military force would be in a position to attack them were they to ever find it necessary to break any significant treaty laws.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 78676"] The UN themselves don't necessarily have an awful lot of power to prevent catastophies, but what they provide is a forum in which states can readily air their issues and as such have helped provide us with what has been termed a more "mature anarchy" in international relations. They also provide the necessary frameworks with which countries can (although it's far from foolproof) use to solve their differences diplomatically. Just while we're on the topic though, how many people know that the UN was originally supposed to have a massive standing army that encompassed 10% of every member states military? It was under the banner of 'collective security', but essentially failed to stand because larger nations such as the US, France UK the Soviets etc were all put off by the idea that a massive international military force would be in a position to attack them were they to ever find it necessary to break any significant treaty laws. [/QUOTE]
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