The United Nations: Why is it so powerless as wars continue to rage?

Prof Jussi Hanhimäki argues the international body is still important, despite the challenges it faces.  

But what exactly is the UN? What is its role today?  

And with the body impotent in the face of wars from the Congo to Gaza – has the time come for major reform? 

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