THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS GLOBAL END GOAL, PLUS INTERVIEW WITH DR. ARTHUR WALDRON

Listen to the whole podcast here: https://americadaily.com/the-united-nations-and-its-global-end-goal/

The United Nations and Its Global End Goal

The United Nations declares that, although they are known for their peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and humanitarian assistance, there are many other ways the UN and its /system/ affect our lives and make the world a better place.

But do they?

They claim to have four main purposes:

To keep peace throughout the world.

To develop friendly relations among nations.

To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, conquer hunger, disease, illiteracy, and to encourage respect for other’s rights and freedoms.

And lastly, to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.

America Daily reporter Vanessa Rios-Gomez explains what the UN’s latest agenda aims to do.

Also, The BL’s Rich Crankshaw hosts the In Great Minds series featuring Dr. Arthur Waldron 

Arthur Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, since 1997. He works mostly on the history of Asia, China in particular; the problem of nationalism, and the study of war and violence in history. Educated at Harvard (A.B. ’71 summa cum laude Valedictorian, Ph.D. ’81) and in Asia where he lived for four years before returning to Harvard. He previously taught at Princeton University, the U.S. Naval War College (Newport, RI) and Brown University.

His publications include The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (1989) also in Chinese and Italian; The Modernization of Inner Asia (1991); How the Peace Was Lost: The 1935 Memorandum “Developments Affecting American Policy in the Far East” Prepared for the State Department by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1992) also in Japanese; From War to Nationalism: China’s Turning Point, 1924-1925 (1995) also in Chinese, and (with Daniel Moran) The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution (2003).

His latest book, The Chinese should appear in 2015. In addition, he has fourteen articles in peer-reviewed journals, ten chapters in books, and two edited volumes in Chinese, as well as numerous scholarly and popular reviews and journalistic essays. In government, he served as one of twelve members of the highly-classified Tilelli Commission (2000-2001), which evaluated the China operations of the Central Intelligence Agency.

He was also an original member of the Congressionally-mandated U.S-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2001-2003).

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.. A regular traveler, he has visited some fifty countries, in Asia and beyond.

He has lectured all over the world, including Europe, Russia (in Russian), Japan, and Australia. Born in Boston in1948 Professor Waldron married the former Xiaowei Yü (Born Beijing) in1988. With their two sons, they live in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.