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Introduction: Looking Back to Look Forward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2020

Margaret P. Karns
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The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 1945 invites us to look back at the achievement of creating this new organization even before the guns had fallen silent in World War II. It also prompts us to ask: Where is the organization today? How well has it fulfilled and is it still fulfilling the high ideals of its Charter? Even more importantly, how confident can we be that what has grown into the complex UN system will not just survive but also provide its member states and the peoples of the world with the organizational structures, resources, and tools needed to address twenty-first century challenges?

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The United Nations at Seventy-Five: Looking Back to Look Forward
Information
Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 34 , Special Issue 3: The United Nations at Seventy-Five: Looking Back to Look Forward , Fall 2020 , pp. 279 - 283
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Copyright © 2020 Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

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NOTE

1 Norman J. Padelford, letter to family and friends, June 26, 1945.