UNITED NATIONS IN THE XXIst CENTURY: A CATALYST FOR CHANGE
UNITED NATIONS IN THE XXIst CENTURY: A CATALYST FOR CHANGE

Summary/Abstract: Although conceived as a historical form creating a new political international context after the Second World War, UN possesses the objectives and the finalities with international dimension necessary so it can reveal itself as the guardant of the international law, irrespective to the changes that might happen in the international political environment. As a framework of multilateral cooperation, UN has stayed as the very base of the present conception on international order; precisely, the states, basing on their legitimate sovereignty, have decided to end a historical period of international relations characterized by the preeminence of force on the law, by war as usual way of settling the disputes between them, and to begin a new era of peace, of international cooperation, based on the principles of law. It cannot be omitted - by those who wish to con¬si¬der this organization as a passive form of cooperation, inefficient, even obsolete, in comparison with the revolutionary forms of regional integration, its contribution to the materia¬li¬za¬tion and to the consolidation of legal international order into a legal and universal accepted form. UN Charter can be considered as a synthesized expression of international contemporary law and UN, as a condensate expression of state multilateralism founded on the respect of sovereignty. UN can be seen as a necessary transformation of a classical international organization with universal vocation, in order to deal with complex global realities, to function into a new political environment; its universal state initial vocation becomes a heterogeneous vocation, to associate global various actors as transnational companies or NGOs to its works and programs, in order to prove its efficient and flexible character in the age of globalization.

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