UN develops into genuine world goverment.

I realise it probably doesn't seem very likely know but when it formed some had very high hopes (or fears) for the UN. How can it evolve into a genuine world goverment or failing that at least an organisation with more power and efficiency than it has now.

Edit At a minimun how can it gain an army of its own and the ability to act even if one of the powers would rather it not.
 
Dag Hammerskjold doesn't die. To elaborate, we'd have a UN with teeth if he'd been given the opportunity to serve out his term.
 

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Well it can't now but this is Alternate History. How could history have gone differently?
Without it serving as essentially the tool of one superpower or another as a framework of a hegemony, I can't see it. The composition of the security council kind of made sure it's not gonna happen.
 
Realpolitik will make sure it doesn't happen. The rich, powerful countries are simply not going to allow themselves be dictated to by the more numerous poor, weak ones and by definition they have the means of preventing it.
 
Well, if you made a world with no superpowers, sure, but then, such a timeline would be virtually unrecognizable, and probably not need an organization like the UN.
 
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