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Discuss how far the United Nations has been successful in resolving global disputes from year 1946 to 1991.

  • UPSC 2018
  • The World after World War II

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The dates matter — 1946 to 1991 is precisely the Cold War era, from the UN's first General Assembly session to the Soviet collapse, so this is a bounded verdict on the UN operating under bipolar constraint, not a verdict on the institution across its whole history.

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