International Relations Case Study UN
International Relations
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The United Nations
Introduction
It is 1941 and the war against the Axis forces has been waging in a state of total war for 2 years, and has no sign of letting up only widening participation and brutality. Since the start of the century has been two world wars, inter-war recession and instability within the world order. The previous attempt from the League of Nations to prevent a second world war has failed due to its inability to create a system of collective security. The manner in which the First World War broke out highly discredited the idea that 'a balance of power ' would always keep the peace. In fact, its failure in 1914 was only made worse by the rough balance of power, in all-out war. An alternative basis for international security had to be found, America and Britain knew that if the allied forces win the war then they must have a plan to prevent the cycle of economic depression and aggressive warfare repeating itself.
Implementation
The initial development of the United Nations starts with the failure of its predecessor the League of Nations which, in part, lies in the inability to 'bring all the great powers into its personal council to take responsibility for world peace. ' (Gareis 2012) The failings represent a gaping hole in the structural systems used in order to prevent the growing crisis of aggressive and illegal conflict, after WWI the issue of conflicting states was not adequately addressed. These inadequacies are highlighted when we see that Japan and Germany left the council in 1930 and the USSR was expelled in 1939 after its attack on Finland.
In 1941Roosevelt, at this point America was still not in the war, proposed that a 'security organisation for monitoring the conquered enemy states ' should be set up. Churchill was an avid supporter of the League of Nations and the concept of collective security until the rise of the Nazi regime, at which point he saw this true expansionist nature of
Word count- 2,114
The United Nations
Introduction
It is 1941 and the war against the Axis forces has been waging in a state of total war for 2 years, and has no sign of letting up only widening participation and brutality. Since the start of the century has been two world wars, inter-war recession and instability within the world order. The previous attempt from the League of Nations to prevent a second world war has failed due to its inability to create a system of collective security. The manner in which the First World War broke out highly discredited the idea that 'a balance of power ' would always keep the peace. In fact, its failure in 1914 was only made worse by the rough balance of power, in all-out war. An alternative basis for international security had to be found, America and Britain knew that if the allied forces win the war then they must have a plan to prevent the cycle of economic depression and aggressive warfare repeating itself.
Implementation
The initial development of the United Nations starts with the failure of its predecessor the League of Nations which, in part, lies in the inability to 'bring all the great powers into its personal council to take responsibility for world peace. ' (Gareis 2012) The failings represent a gaping hole in the structural systems used in order to prevent the growing crisis of aggressive and illegal conflict, after WWI the issue of conflicting states was not adequately addressed. These inadequacies are highlighted when we see that Japan and Germany left the council in 1930 and the USSR was expelled in 1939 after its attack on Finland.
In 1941Roosevelt, at this point America was still not in the war, proposed that a 'security organisation for monitoring the conquered enemy states ' should be set up. Churchill was an avid supporter of the League of Nations and the concept of collective security until the rise of the Nazi regime, at which point he saw this true expansionist nature of
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