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Essay on Darfur & Essay on the World Bank This essay discus

This essay discusses the difficulties of arriving at and implementing multilateral approaches through the United Nations (UN) Security Council to the catastrophic humanitarian crisis which has developed in the Darfur region of western Sudan since 2003. Multilateralism refers to a process whereby interested nation states seek solutions to complex international problems --such as trade disputes, nuclear proliferation concerns or human rights violations--by acting in concert. The concern expressed by many Europeans and others on the international stage about an alleged decline in multilateralism reflects fears over the consequences of unilateral actions by the United States, the world's only superpower. From the standpoint of the United States, multilateralism is often seen, especially during the administrations of President George Bush, as presenting obstacles against serving the vital national interests of the United States.

Multilateral approaches have in the past produced optimum solutions for solving some international problems, such as the use of the UN to thwart Saddam Hussein's aggression in the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991 and in defeating (outside the UN) Serbian ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. During, however, the Cold War and subsequently multilateral approaches through the UN and outside the UN have often foundered over a lack of international consensus and will. The UN has achieved only minuscule gains in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, largely due conflicting goals and policies of some of its key, veto-wielding Security Council members and other UN member states.

Promise and Pitfalls of Multilateralism

Dorn Von Sydow, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (UN, 2004, June 3) said that "multilateralism, despite its shortcomings, has proved indispensable to ensuring viable solutions to the complex problems facing the world today" (p. A 20). Many leading internationalists, including ...

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