The United Nations: States Vs International Laws

Few Americans understand why the United Nations functions the way it does, and why it seems so ineffectual in facing catastrophes like those in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, and Palestine/Israel. The author traces its weaknesses to its founding, and highlights all it has accomplished despite these handicaps. This book shows that the United Nations structure was basically US designed, in 1944, and was hamstrung from the start to assure that the US would always be able to veto what it didn't like and to ensure that decisions in the General Assembly, where we might well be outvoted, would be considered "recommendations" which could be ignored.