The United Nations and Globalization

This assignment examines the United Nations (UN) and its relationship with globalization. It defines globalization and explains how it affects international organizations like the UN. The essay highlights the UN's contributions to global development, including disease control, women's rights promotion, and assistance to developing countries. It concludes by discussing the challenges facing the UN in a globalized world, such as expanding Security Council membership.

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The United Nations is an intercontinental organization established for the purpose of
promoting and spreading global harmony, accord and collaboration. The aforementioned
organization also works for the purpose of formation and continuation of global order. The world
leaders laid the foundation of the United Nations on 24 October in the year 1945 in the hope of
averting the occurrence of a violent event akin to the Second World War. The foundation block
of the United Nations was laid as a substitution of the fruitless League of Nations (Gareis 2012).
At present, United Nations possesses one hundred and ninety three associate states under its
wing. The United Nations has its headquarters situated in the neighborhood of Manhattan in New
York City in America and is related to diplomatic immunity. According to popular perception,
the United Nations is regarded to be the most sizeable, well-known and diplomatically
formidable intercontinental establishment in the world.
The theory taken for this case study of United Nations is globalization-key actors and
approaches. All the major political, business or legal establishments in the world have been
highly affected by globalization and the United Nations is no exception. Globalization can be
defined as an incessant process through which the territorial economies, community and
philosophies are on the process of becoming solidified and confederated in an intercontinental
grid of correspondence and business (Forsythe, Coate and Pease 2013). It is highly evident that
the United Nations can be explained by the theory of globalization. The United Nations is a
bright example of how globalization can make an organization massively influential and
weighty.
The United Nations is playing a major role in the global social and economic progression.
Examples are abounding to support the above statement. The UN had made extensive
contributions to impede hazardous diseases such as AIDS, chicken pox, malaria and others. The

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UN also plays a substantial role in the promotion of women emancipation, education and gender
impartiality (Rasche, Waddock and McIntosh 2013). The UN also assists financially deficit
countries to obtain optimum resources to combat grave national complications. The United
Nations has played a major role in the amplification of comprehensive inter dependence among
the different countries of the world.
Conclusively, it can be said that the United Nations is a global organization, which has
incessantly worked for human welfare and prosperity. However, there are certain discrepancies
in the working style and structure of the United Nations. Such discrepancies can make a fine
topic of discussion among the political science enthusiasts. One of the major challenging
questions, which arise at the time of discussing the concept of United Nations from the
perspective of globalization, is that- The United Nations must enlarge its membership seats in the
Security Council to effectively accommodate the participation of more countries in the world.

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References
Forsythe, D.P., Coate, R.A. and Pease, K.K., 2013. The United Nations and changing world
politics. Westview Press.
Rasche, A., Waddock, S. and McIntosh, M., 2013. The United Nations global compact:
Retrospect and prospect. Business & Society, 52(1), pp.6-30.
Gareis, S.B., 2012. The united nations. Palgrave Macmillan.