Hmm. It certainly reflects global power politics in the postwar era. That is a fair criticism.
However the degree to which we really want the voices of the BRICS nations speaking for either the world or the poorer weaker nations of the world is dubious.
The UN's reputation is not in tatters. It doesn't need a reputation. It has done immense good in the last 70 years, and aside from tiresome critiques of "The West" one must ask what those nonwestern nations would do were they dominant? Can you spell authoritarian? Sexist? Racist? Can you spell ubernationalist?
Its always the problem of the critic: what is the alternative? You might not have a better option than the liberal democracies telling the world what it should do. One might ask - appreciatively - how free one is to make any critique, in the West, on western substacks, on western technologies.
Hmm. It certainly reflects global power politics in the postwar era. That is a fair criticism.
However the degree to which we really want the voices of the BRICS nations speaking for either the world or the poorer weaker nations of the world is dubious.
The UN's reputation is not in tatters. It doesn't need a reputation. It has done immense good in the last 70 years, and aside from tiresome critiques of "The West" one must ask what those nonwestern nations would do were they dominant? Can you spell authoritarian? Sexist? Racist? Can you spell ubernationalist?
Its always the problem of the critic: what is the alternative? You might not have a better option than the liberal democracies telling the world what it should do. One might ask - appreciatively - how free one is to make any critique, in the West, on western substacks, on western technologies.