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第17回最優秀賞“The Role of the United Nations in the InternationalCommunity of the 21st Century”Richard Joseph PonzioⅠ.Introduction: A New Era for Global GovernanceAt the dawn of the 21 st Century, humanity continues on a course toward heightenedinterdependence, among nations and peoples, on a scale unprecedented in humanhistory. More than $1.5 trillion is now exchanged in the world’s currency marketseach day, and nearly a fifth of the goods and services produced each year are traded.Internet links, cellular phones and media networks are connecting people everywhereand affecting events in far corners of the planet. Fueling economic growth, thesechanges have the potential to further expand human progress and the commitment toa global community.On the other hand, the deeply entrenched problems facing the world communityare also increasingly global in scale. Drug trafficking, terrorism, AIDS, unregulatedarms profiteering, the vast waste of human capital engendered by perpetual poverty,mass migration, population growth, the relentless degradation of the biosphere --the extensive reach of these issues threatens the security of people and the planetfar more today than the great power conflicts the 1945 United Nations Charter wasdesigned to prevent. Nevertheless, few national leaders appear ready to equip theUnited Nations system with the tools commensurate to these new challenges.In this essay on The Role of the United Nations in the International Community ofthe 21 st Century, I will endeavor to address the following four subject areas:? The growing demands that will be placed on the UN in the 21 st century21