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The UN v the world.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Rosemary Righter sent a birthday card to the United Nations on its sixtieth anniversary ("Overburdened and Inert", September 2006). Her undiplomatic despatch reexamines several critical themes first surveyed in a previous book, published in 1995, being stories of five decades (Utopia Lost: The United Nations and World Order). I previously reviewed this work and can add little more to it (Australian Defence Force Journal, No. 118, May/June 1996).
What has been achieved, ten years after? The UN has an enviable capacity to resist reform where it is so clearly needed. As any slumbering bureaucracy, it limps along forging its own paradigm which continues to insulate the organisation from the baser motives of man and state. There is little to critique in Righter's rebop as she has, sadly, got it right again. One could "solve" the UN--but that would mean re-defining the problem. And like honesty itself, the world hasn't reached that stage yet.
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