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The United Nations, founder of a new multilateralism
The United Nations, major actor of international affairs has then to face the world redistribution of power. China, India, Brazil represent a leading trio that shakes the influence of the main developed countries. As the latters do not impose so much their vision and their voice in the international affairs concert, the growing power of numerous countries questions the traditional geographic classifications and modifies suddenly the balance of powers expressed through multilateral systems and more particularly the UN.
Moreover, between hyper powers and emerging powers, between newly created states and decaying states, International Institutions have difficulties to face these new connections. The international strategic stakes are reviewed, debates on security and global economic welfare do not occur without the participation and collaboration of the great emerging markets.
On the background of worldwide economic and financial crisis, these strategies already had been reviewed following September 11th 2001 attacks and the spread of international terrorism.
After the bipolar clash of Second World War, and the transition to a unipolar world dominated by the United States after 1991, the world is to be managed in a multilateral manner, more convenient for an increased role of the UN. In fact, the new emerging powers, pushed economically, want to defend their vision on fundamental principles such as human rights, states sovereignty, democracy, environment or even development.
These confrontations among powers impose the transformation of a universal message of the United Nations and the assertion of new actors on crucial issues.
In such a context, the Institute for Advanced Studies on the United Nations constitutes a vital reflection tool, through its analysis of evolutions within international affairs. The study of multilateral systems in a society that is entirely oriented towards knowledge will help the UN to overcome the next challenges it has to face.
