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Do you think that the United Nations Organisation has played a significant role in resolving international disputes and ensuring peace in the world?

  • UPSC 2021
  • The World after World War II

Unlike a Cold-War-bounded question, this one demands the full sweep — from 1945 to the present — weighing genuine post-Cold War triumphs against catastrophic post-Cold War failures alongside the earlier Cold War record.

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What the full answer covers

  • The Cold War baseline: conditional success
  • The post-Cold War high point: Gulf War and transitional successes
  • The catastrophic failures: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia
  • Post-2000 struggles: sovereignty, unilateralism, and veto deadlock
  • Beyond hard security: the wider ledger

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