The United Nations was designed to be, among other things, the world’s primary agency for maintaining international peace and security, and the center for harmonizing the policies of nations on important matters. Urquhart claims that for the UN to be able to carry out those functions in the alarming conditions of the early twenty-first century, it needs a radically new approach to its peace and security functions, a new degree of support and consensus from its members, and a renewing of its spirit and structure.
