International Relations and the United Nations: A Critical Perspective

Abstract

Alliances between states have not been uncommon in the human history of state creation and function throughout their existence. Emperors, kings, and councils of sages often concluded political or military alliances to coordinate the peaceful neighbourly existence of the region and to fend off or tackle dangerous enemies. In the wake of Ottoman Empire or the invasion by Germanic tribes, (Balassone, 20014) European states had to combine their forces to protect their sovereignty and the fragile peace in the region. Similarly, after another huge international threat, another type of alliance with a more supranational function erupted to protect the global nations - international organizations. After the devastating sweep of the Nazi forces in the two World Wars in the beginning of the twentieth centuries, global powers, states that were involved in the war, and those who were not but were in the hazard of it, decided that it was time to create an international governmental body that would regulate international relations on a normative and supervisory level in order to prevent such apocalyptic anthropogenic cataclysms in the future.