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Introduction
The League of Nations was established in 1919, and it was the first international
organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Housden
(2011, p.6) described the League as an ambitious venture which aimed to
capitalize on some of the best possibilities of mankind. Although the League of
Nations might have made efforts and contributed to maintaining peace in some
conflicts in the world at that time, it could not prevent the outbreak of the Second
World War. However, the League of Nations left many lessons, and the United
Nations might learn and improve from the failures of the League. Unfortunately,
the world still has many problems that are necessarily to be solved, and it is
difficult to say that the UN is the perfect International Institution for tackling global
issues. However, we should recognise that people succeeded to set up the UN
which is much more stable and reliable than the League. This essay aims to
explain the failures of the League and some problems which the UN faces in
modern society.
Conclusion
Due to the failures of the League such as vacancy of the United States, too
severe suppressing against defeated countries and the disparity within the
League, many countries tried to establish the UN which works more secure and
reliable than the League as a global institution after the Second World War.
However, it is still difficult to say that the UN is the global institution without defects
because there are still some points of the UN that is worth to be reconsidered
under the current world conditions. Furthermore, there is a possibility that new
issues which the UN will confront in the future, but the UN keeps prevent the
world war up to the present day. Therefore, the UN should be improved and
amended in cases when drawbacks or vulnerability of the UN are found
throughout the change of times.
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