Question
Mention any six post-Cold War changes that have necessitated reforms to make the United Nations work better.
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Answer
Here are some of the changes that have necessitated to reform to make UN work more better:
- The collapse of Soviet Union and the emergence of US as the strongest power.
- The relationship between Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, and the US is much more cooperative.
- China is fast emerging as a great power, and India is also growing rapidly.
- The economies of Asia are growing at an unprecedented rate.
- Many new countries have joined the UN as they became independent from the Soviet Union or former communist states in eastern Europe.
- A whole new set of challenges confronts the world (genocide, civil war, ethnic conflict terrorism, nuclear proliferation, climate change, environmental degradation, epidemics).
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