can the United Nations survive?
2003 Report (Continued) As to whether the UN can survive, Mortimer maintained that the answer has yet to be seen, and depends on whether the Security Council can preserve its authority, since without that organ, the authority and legitimacy of the other UN bodies–the World Health Organization, etcetera– would be in question. But must we already give up hope in the Security Council’s ability to protect future generations from war, as Glennon implied we had? Mortimer said that while, in the build-up to the war in Iraq, this problem was presented by the media as a new issue, it is indeed as old as the organization itself. The better question is: has the UN restrained war, or perhaps prevented another World War, or helped to do so? If so, the organization has much more value than Glennon would allow. Furthermore, it would be much easier to work within the current system to improve it rather than trying to build entirely new structure in our unipolar, globalized, and increasingly anarchic