Abstract
The United Nations is analysed in order to better understand the influences of utopianism on the international organisation and also how States have at times blocked the UN’s capacity to maintain international peace and security. Initially, the founding years of the UN are analysed to highlight the influence of utopianism on the development of international law. The second part of the chapter focuses on the UN Security Council. Here, the sufficient tools it has to deal with threats to international peace and security are highlighted, which raises questions as to why the Security Council and its Member-States have failed to adequately exercise such powers in order to effectively deal with a host of conflicts. Such failures justify the argument made by emancipatory idealist that the primary position States enjoy in international law is problematic if the central aim is to protect all individuals and groups from modes of oppression.
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