The tasks set before the U.N. are not small; to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. The organization has its supporters and its detractors, as well as several lively debates surrounding it. This volume provides a sequence of essays over four chapters that provides your readers with a balanced debate on the issues. Topics debated are whether the U.N. is effective, whether it is impartial towards the Middle East, whether America should support the U.N., and what the future may hold for the U.N.