Ideological Differences In David Bosco's Purpose Of The UN

The United Nations, since its implementation in 1945, has done much to try regulate international relations, and increase living standards globally. However, there is severe, ideological and structural limitations to the UN’s ability to regulate states and enforce its regulations, rendering it largely ineffective. Initially, the UN was created to be a mediator between states in order to conduct international relations in a relatively peaceful way, and establish a system which can deploy humanitarian aid. However, there is varying ideas on the execution of these ideals. In David Bosco’s Uncertain Guardians, he articulates the idea of ideological dualism within the foundation of the UN and the pursual of its objectives. He states that one ideology is that the UN’s purpose is to support peace, security, and humanitarianism, through global governance. Another, is that the sole purpose of the UN is to prevent warfare between powerful states (Bosco 442). Bosco articulates, that it is extremely difficult to effective fulfill the objectives of a collaborative institution due to the vested interests of states and the anarchic reality of international relations (Bosco …show more content…
There is the constant issue of of UN members that purposefully create weak UN institutions and regulations in order to further their vested interests. Michael Glennon remarks in his article, Why the Security Council Failed, upon this criticism arguing that geopolitics and the UN’s structure are purposely lax. Glennon argues that the UN members that enforce sanctions and regulations purposefully keep the UN weak, as the strict enforcement of regulations and sanctions could potentially limit their sovereignty, or punish their so call “bad behaviour”(Glennon 23). Therefore, the UN is kept in a weak state as to not impact the true purpose of geopolitics, the perusal of security through the acquisition of power by states (Glennon