President of the International Progress Organization

Professor of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck (Austria)

 Lecture delivered at the International Roundtable on

The United Nations and International Power Politics: The Future of World Order

 organized by the International Progress Organization in co-operation with the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities

Contents

Abstract

(I)                 The United Nations and the power balance of 1945

(II)              The UN Charter: unavoidable compromise or irreconcilable contradiction between power and law?

(III)            The antagonism between power and law: implications for world order in a bipolar and a unipolar system

(IV)           The Security Council's role in the framework of a unipolar world order

(V)              The predicament of the United Nations Organization in terms of power politics – realism versus idealism

(VI)           Future prospects of the United Nations and the need for a new model of international organization

INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS ORGANIZATION

Occasional Papers Series, No. 8

© by I.P.O., 2004, A-1010 Vienna, Kohlmarkt 4