Ban Ki-Moon is holding the logo of the United Nation and he's struggling to keep it up. This is an allusion to the Greek myth of Atlas. Atlas was a Greek Titan who after the war between the Gods and Titans was forced to hold the Sky on his shoulders for all eternity. Modern depictions of Atlas have him holding up Earth. Ban is wearing what looks like greek attire, a robe and gladiator sandals. Unlike Atlas, Ban is not holding the United Nations for all eternity, he is passing the job onto Guterres
The United Nations is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations with a membership that includes one-hundred and ninety three states as well as many non-member observer states and organizations, such as Palestine and Amnesty International. As an IGO that represents the majority of the nation-states in our international system, the United Nations, commonly referred to as the UN, is dedicated to promoting peace and stability within the international arena. The UN serves as a forum that enables
Ban Ki Moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, whom has helped mobilize the world in an amazing variety of different ways. He is still a person who can continue to help our Earth be the best that it can be. From being born when Korea was in war, to now, to be one of the greatest leaders of the world, Ban Ki Moon is truly a significant person. Having a tough early life, it could’ve been nearly impossible for anyone to believe that Ban Ki Moon could turn out like this. First of
leaders in the United States today. These men and women help to form the nation into what it is today and what it will be in the future. One of these important leaders of the United States is the Surgeon General. The Surgeon General has many responsibilities and priorities that form our nation’s Public Health System. These responsibilities and priorities of the Surgeon General will be explained throughout this paper. According to the Reader’s Digest Encyclopedia the Surgeon General is the chief medical
causing around 90,000 deaths and over one million casualties during war (Mass, 2013). Apparatus for dispensing these weapons developed tremendously during the first half of the twentieth century, increasing these weapons’ alarming ability to kill. The United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War maintained massive stockpiles of chemical weapons enough to eliminate a large amount of the human race and animal life on Earth. In 1980, Iraq used chemical weapons on Iran during war and in 1988; Iraq
United Nations Essay With the dismal failure of the League of Nations, the Second World War began in 1939. It lasted for six long years before the final defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. At this time, many people thought that a new enhanced form of the League of Nations, a world governing body, was needed so that the same mistakes making war possible wasn’t repeated. Realizing this, the allies began to prepare for the enf od World War II. As they rejected any idea of restroing the League
Epilogue VI. Conclusion I. Biography Henry Kissinger born in Furth Bavaria, 1923, to a German Jewish family escaped Nazi persecution by emigrating to the United States in 1938. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943, changing his name from Heinz Alfred Kissinger to Henry Alfred Kissinger, and served as a translator in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. After serving in the Army he went on to attend Harvard University where he obtained
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: THE UNITED NATIONS The study of International Organizations falls in the realm of International Relations theory. As a relatively new field, International Relations (IR) theory is difficult to define. It is often taught as a theory that seeks both to explain past state behavior and to predict future state behavior. To my understanding, International Relations attempts to explain the interactions of states in the global interstate system, and it also attempts to explain
Technology has allowed for the furtherance of warfare, from the invention of gun powder to the splitting of the atom. These findings have propelled the leap of numerous nations’ in the ability to wage war against each other. Of these discoveries, the splitting atom spawned an invention that would hurl the world from conventional warfare into the nuclear age. These ideals were the brainstorming of some of the greatest minds in America and abroad. These scientists began to formulate the creation
In 2004, Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, explicitly declared that the United States-led war on Iraq was illegal and breached the United Nations’ charter (MacAskill & Borger, 2004). This is due to the war not having been approved or sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council, nor was it in accordance with the UN’s founding charter (MacAskill & Borger, 2004). These facts beg the question; was the Iraq war a just war? More than that, was it illegal, and should the key players
Lincoln met with his generals to devise a strategy by which the rebellious states of the Confederacy could be brought back into the Union. General Winfield Scott, commanding general of the Union army, proposed a plan of battle that became known as the Anaconda Plan. General Winfield Scott, commanding general of the Union Army From the Collections of The Mariners' Museum General Scott, a native Virginian, believed that the majority of Southerners desired a complete union with the United States. In order
caused terrible atrocities - which have taken forms of genocide or ethnic cleansing - that have cost lives of millions (Power, 2011; J. Bajorja & R. McMahon, 2013). Humanitarian Intervention's new doctrine "Responsibility to Protect" is embraced by United Nations as a necessary means to prevent and punish atrocities. Yet, there are state actors as China and Russia which challenge its implementation. I argue that it is very important to save Humanitarian Inter... ... middle of paper ... ...reviews
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, the Secretary of State serving under President Chester A. Arthur, and one of New Jersey’s most successful politicians of the Nineteenth Century, was born in Millstone, New Jersey on August 4th in 1817. His father was Frederick Frelinghuysen and his mother was Mary Dumont. His family was already wealthy and had a history of being successful at law and public service in politics. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen was the uncle of United States Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen
foreign policy’ he simply replied ‘I do’ . The United State president has always put the issue of foreign affairs to the fore front in order to retain the superpower America is. Although the President is viewed as the key decision maker in foreign policy the executive branch is not the only branch involved in determining the course of American foreign policy. The process of developing policies is of great importance to the branches involved because the United states government has the power to influence
capabilities, intentions and activities of individuals or organisations outside Australia, which may impact on Australia's interests and the well-being of its citizens' (Commonwealth of Australia, 2006). The Security Service (M15) is the United Kingdom's nation security intelligence agency. The functions of M15 are defined under section 1 of the Security Service Act 1989, to protect the national security, safeguard the nation's economic well-being and support other agencies in the prevention and
The United Nations Peacekeeping stabilization mission I chose is Minustah in Haiti. The purpose and origin of the operation; the country of Haiti had steadily increased in chaos between its citizens and the government bringing the world to attention at the humanitarian travesty’s in the country due to the unstable economy and leadership. Then in 2004 the United Nation stepped in and started the Haitian Stabilization mission called Minustah to aid Haiti. The United Nations Stabilization Mission in
The National Military Strategy (NMS) is a document issued by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a deliverable to the Secretary of Defense briefly outlining the strategic aims of the armed
Women in the UN When looking at a report from Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the UN, the proportion of women in the UN at the levels in the Secretariat, with contracts for one year or longer, rose 1.7 % last year to 37.4 % on the end of June of this year. Furthermore, 83.3 % of staff at the lowest professional level, called the P-1, was made up by women but only 16.7 % of the highest staff level, the Under-Secretaries-General, was formed by women. What are the reasons for that? Is it more
After the conclusion of the Second World War, the United Nations (UN) replaced the ineffective League of Nations and its job was to protect humans rights and prevent future wars like World War 2. The “Big Three” — who were US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union— held a meeting in the soviet city of Yalta to discuss terms for the up coming peace treaty, which included talks about a “world organization.” “This organization—
independence and the general elections, the country went into civil war. Major developed cities like Katanga and Kasai wanted to be independent from the Lumumba government. Different factions started to fight the government and Katanga and Kasai tried to secede from the rest of the country out of fear of the mutinous army that was out of control looting and killing. All out war ensued to the point where the international community had to intervene. The United Nations, Belgium, the United States of America