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The UN is running aground. It manifests phenomenal ineffectiveness and inefficiency. Reform it is a top priority task, but what should one start with? It is highly likely that the subsequent "reforming project" will follow the fate of previous ones. The issue boils down to the organization´s founding principles´ irrelevance rather than poor managerial arrangements. Therefore, reform the UN must be tantamount to revisiting its basics. Revisit its basics would lead up to matching collective security premises with interest-power-based politics that is usually known as realpolitik. The outcome of such a showdown would not be consoling for collective-security order. The latter may prove quite notional as rebuffed by the factual world of fierce interest clashes among states. May the ascendancy of realism in politics cause the demise of the collective security concept itself? Certainly yes. If so, will not the UN prove redundant in a balance-of-power-seeking international environment?

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Georgiev, Blagovest
Blagovest Georgiev is doctor of sociology, Associate Professor with the Chair of Sociology at "St Kl. Ohridski University of Sofia". His major courses comprise strategic planning, organizational building, corporate governance. Over the last decade his research has expanded in the area of world order, collective security, food security and growth.

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