Foreign Affairs | Thant Myint-U
The long peace of the past eight decades has been underpinned by two revolutionary convictions: the intolerability of wars of aggression and the imperative to end empires. These principles, forged from the devastation of two world wars that killed a hundred million people and centuries of colonial subjugation and the fight across Asia, Africa, and Latin America for self-determination, were formally embodied in the United Nations Charter, signed in San Francisco in June 1945. Since its establishment, the world has successfully averted a cataclysmic great-power conflict, and global European empires were systematically dismantled. However, the article posits that these foundational pillars of global peace are now crumbling, with the forgotten power of the United Nations failing to adequately uphold these critical tenets. This erosion threatens the international stability achieved over the last 80 years, risking a resurgence of war and imperialistic ambitions.
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