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World order is best achieved through agreement of all nations; this is reflected in the legal system of treaties, which the ICC, the United Nations, and its peacekeeping forces aim to achieve. The devastation resulting from military conflicts in recent years has accentuated the need for the legal system to preserve and maintain world order. Through a study of the roles of the UN, its legal processes, and non-legal remedies, we see that the legal system's effectiveness in this regard is open to debate.
World order is an ideal of a state of actual peace in which there is no overt conflict, hence there is a balance of power among nations. It is this ideal which the legal system, including treaties, the ICC, the UN, and its peacekeeping forces aim to achieve. However, military conflicts can destabilise this balance of power. The resulting devastation has accentuated the need for the legal system to preserve and maintain world order. However, its effectiveness in doing so is open to debate.
World order can best be achieved by agreement of all states; this is reflected in the legal system of treaties. A treaty is a legal document that outlines an ideal international standard of behaviour on a particular issue (e.g. nuclear arms) however these agreements are not legally binding unless enacted into domestic.....
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