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第10回優秀賞“The United Nations ? Its Second Fifty Years:Towards a Twenty-First Century OrganizationCapable of Enacting Global Harmonization andIntegration”Noah Todd McLainⅠ．INTRODUCTIONPartially eclipsed by its upcoming fiftieth anniversary, the framework andfoundation of the United Nations（UN）has out-weathered indigenous corrosiveagents of the post-World WarⅡera. Agents spread by decades of communisttyranny; dictatorships and despots; anarchistic, centralized rule; suppression offreedom; poverty, and famine were commonly symbolized by Winston Churchill’sinfamous metaphor,“The Iron Curtain”. While the majority of the Iron Curtain hasrusted and crumbled in decay, the United Nations has buttressed itself; becoming amore solidified and significant world-wide institution.Throughout its history, the United Nations has served many useful and importantroles: peace-keeper, mediator, arbitrator, humanitarian, and monitor to name just afew. In this capacity, it has served to promote and maintain peace and foster globalhumanity, diplomacy, development, assistance, and progress. To many, the UN hadcome to represent a stabilizing, neutrally ? aligned fulcrum balancing the opposingforces of a typically bipolar ? communist versus capitalistic ? world. Through itall, the UN has many accomplishments of which to be proud. New challenges,however, are emerging as a result of the collapse of the Cold War. The fear of globalannihilation may have, temporarily, subsided but a flood of regionally-, religiously-, andeconomically-motivated confrontations has risen in its place. The nascent growth ofthe“New World Order”is facing an uncertain childhood. If this New World Order is149