Key takeaways

• The UN’s capacity to effectively accomplish its mission of maintaining peace and security has almost always been limited by geopolitical confrontation.

• The UN is a global intergovernmental organization; therefore, global challenges to the contemporary system of international relations constitute the main dilemmas faced by the organization.

• The UN’s inability to play the consolidating role — even symbolically — amid the pandemic negatively affects the image of the organization.

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