http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-UN/article_2519.jsp Comments for "The hidden history of the United Nations, Dan Plesch " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-UN/article_2519.jsp <p> The history told about the defeat of Nazism and the founding of the United Nations in the 1940s has become distorted. A false view of the past is being used today to shape how we think about our future. The military power of the victorious wartime allies is offered as a model for running the world, while the UN’s supposed utopianism is seen as ineffective and irrelevant. This is a travesty of the facts (see the boxed timeline below). We are taught that the UN began with the signing of the <a href="http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/" target="_blank">Charter</a> in 1945. In fact, that agreement was the culmination of a complex military and political effort that began in 1941. Understanding the UN’s wartime origins provides a powerful and much-needed reminder that the UN is not some liberal accessory but was created out of hard, realistic political necessity. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-UN/article_2519.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-UN/article_2519.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-UN/article_2519.jsp#comment a democratic united nations? Creative Commons normal Dan Plesch globalisation institutions &amp; government Wed, 18 May 2005 00:00:00 +0100 2519 at http://www.opendemocracy.net