1. INTRODUCTION Certainly the world is much different than the world that rejected the League of Nations. The fall of the Soviet Empire seems to have opened the door for the ascension of the United Nations UN to prominence in managing world affairs. Yet, the spectre of old problems in Africa and the Middle East and the rest of the world continue to challenge the UN. However unlike after its inception in 1945 the UN is now faced with new forms of challenges, more contemporary and they are mostly intra-state as opposed to typical inter-state conflict. Can the UN effectively...
such arrangement of politics. The problems involved in dealing with the existing mostly intra-state world disorder while working at the substructure of a future world order are the most challenging tasks that International Organisations are faced with. The key to overcoming such challenges is making already existing international organisations such as the UN to work better and adapt to contemporary intra-state problems by extending their mandate beyond peace keeping to peace making and peace enforcement and as shown in this essay the UN is trying to implement such measures, how successful they will be, only time will tell.