Utopia Pros And Cons

Dominique Heath

Professor Bukowski

IS 250-04

May 12, 2015

Relevant Utopia

Compared to the nonexistent international system of the past to the progressing and developing international system of the present, we have made a huge progress towards peace. It took two wars, a proxy-war, and countless genocide, but we are currently on our way towards establishing international peace, but of course we still have more progressing to do, especially in addressing international and even domestic conflict.

The current state and nature of the international systems is characterized as both conflict and cooperation of advanced nations. To further elaborate, World War I allowed the United States to grow as a nation and be recognized on a global scale. Afterwards,

However, a Utopia hasn’t ever been achieved and there is a lengthy belief on why it will never happen. The main reason is that its’ main characteristic is being free of strife and conflict, and in order to create that kind of society you must first remove people’s need for conflict, which is highly unlikely. Conflict arises from disagreeing ideas, meaning that those ideas are different and a result of independent thought. In order for there not to be conflict, then everyone must have identical ideas about any and every subject. So essentially, a Utopia is an idea of a conformist society. However, and despite the egotistical thoughts of some people, all humans are imperfect therefore society is imperfect. If society strives to be perfect then we are asking to conform, essentially to all be the same. There would be no creativity, or new inventions. The world would lack independent thinking and society therefore would be mindless, uncreative drones. That would be what would happen if we strive to become a Utopian society, however, my idea of a Utopia is a lot less traditional, incorporating primarily liberal

Arms trades will be made illegal and the only people to have access to those arms would be those who directly work in the military. The UN’s job is to preserve peace “through international cooperation and collective security”. However, currently the UN is not able to do anything else besides “provide the means to help resolve international conflicts and formulate policies on matters affecting all of us” ( How the UN Works). In my Utopia there will be an additional part of the UN besides the Security Council, General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, Trusteeship Council and the ICC (“Role of the Security Council”). The additional organization would be the International Terrorism Response (ITR), which would be an extension of the Security Council. It would also be comprised of many representatives from all different nations as a show of good faith. In creating the ITR, then each state military system will be limited. While this may seem like a risky move, it assures that no state has a substantial amount of military power over another. If one state has a bigger military system than another then that may cause a security dilemma. So in order to avoid that, the UN would take a consensus of how much security is actually needed, and base their military system on their feedback. This would also make the countries more understanding if