We must assume that they took it seriously and believed it could work.

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, its main architects, were 'hard-nosed' leaders engaged in total war who took time at major conferences in 19 to plan this new structure. A former Irish ambassador to the United Nations, Noel Dorr, observed, importantly, that the United Nations Charter was not devised by idealists. It was from the crisis and collapse of the old order that the United Nations was born in 1945. The international balance of power system between the great states-going back, in Europe, to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648-effectively collapsed in the first half of the twentieth century and two world wars left the political dynamics of the developed world in ruins. And, everywhere, not least here in the United States, a process of economic and industrial change was underway that in a few decades would transform the economies of developed countries. The British Empire exercised hegemony over large parts of the world. In my own country, Ireland, Charles Stewart Parnell was asserting the right of Irish people to control their own destiny. 1 The United States, with a population of sixty million people, was still in a process of healing after a terrible civil war. Thomas in the mid- 1880s, it was to serve a very different world. When Archbishop Ireland founded this University of St. Ireland on the World Stage:Īt the United Nations and on the Security Council Richard Ryan In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

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