UN and Rising Nationalism

Throughout the world, there has been more and more rising nationalism driven by populist policies and a generally higher mistrust of global institutions and global governance.  Due to this, there has been a dismantling across the board and questioning of these global governance structures (whether it was Trump’s rhetoric on NATO, the U.K. and Brexit from the EU, as well as some countries and their relationship to the United Nations and the WTO).  For the United Nations, due to their lack of peacekeeping ability (in terms of military peacekeeping efforts as well as enforcing treaties and other international rules and laws).

Because of the bureaucratic nature of the U.N. when it comes to peacekeeping and ability to enforce those standards as well as a rising nationalistic overtone to national politics of various countries, there seems to be less effectiveness for the U.N. when it comes to peacekeeping as well as global governance.  This is exacerbating the divide of opinions about the nationalistic vs. globalistic views, and also the gap between the dire necessity for global governance such as the U.N. vs. the people’s perceptions of its needs, especially in a global pandemic and rising tensions and increasingly hostile policies in both talk and trade.

Since there doesn’t seem to be anything bridging this divide at the moment, things seem to be increasingly less stable and tensions seem to be heightening in a time of high volatility, and international diplomacy may be at a standstill.