No U.N

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What if after ww1 Woodrow Wilson didnt think of the league of nations so therefore after ww2 there was no united nations to replace it what would the would look like?
 
What if after ww1 Woodrow Wilson didnt think of the league of nations so therefore after ww2 there was no united nations to replace it what would the would look like?

As much as I'd like to say otherwise, not much I think. Countries never realy managed to get over their nationalism knee jerk reaction to hand over some of their powers and peace missions have mandates that are so diluted that often they might has well not be there.

You might see a larger place being given to NGO in place of some of the UN organisations.
 
No smallpox? But the formation of the UN would almost certainly happen anyway; just because Wilson didn't dream up the LoN doesn't mean that the whole idea would be completely ignored.
 
The League of Nations was not the first international organization of its type. For that you need only look to the Concert of Europe which was established in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. It too suffered a similar fate to the League of Nations: becoming increasingly irrelevant and finally becoming officially defunct with the outbreak of WWI.

I think the best way to preclude the formation of the UN would be to make the schism between the Soviets and Western Allies more bitter following WWII. So much so that the Eastern Block countries refuse to try and even join such an organization (most likely seeing it as little more than a "capitalist sham"), which would pretty much just turn the UN into an international alliance like NATO and others which had preceded it before.
 
I wonder if the UN is destined to suffer the same fate as the League of Nations. It seems the organization is becoming increasingly impotent and racked with scandal. I hope that does not happen, but the UN does need some serious work to remain relevant.
 
I wonder if the UN is destined to suffer the same fate as the League of Nations. It seems the organization is becoming increasingly impotent and racked with scandal. I hope that does not happen, but the UN does need some serious work to remain relevant.

The UN will probably eventually die but the actually useful portions of the organization will just get renamed or not (WHO for example) in whatever comes after
 
The UN will probably eventually die but the actually useful portions of the organization will just get renamed or not (WHO for example) in whatever comes after

I agree, it will either get fixed or replaced. At this time in history we need a strong international organization or the world will devolve into what Europe was at the turn of the 20th century; armed camps ready to strike out at the first provocation.
 
Oh, and it'd be nice to have an international organization with enough clout to enforce greenhouse gas emission policies and that sort of thing.
 
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