From : The Hindu
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Towards the New Horizon — World Order in the 21st Century:
James B. L. Mayall, Krishnan Srinivasan; Standard Publishers (India), 225, Gupta Palace, A-2/42, Rajouri Garden Main Road, New Delhi-110027. Rs. 750.
The United Nations has not been any more successful than its predecessor, the League of Nations, in bringing about international cooperation based on a commitment to constitutional governance, human rights, and the rule of law. The vision of ‘One World’, a term added to the political lexicon by the American politician, Wendell Willkie, remains as far a cry as ever before. The peoples of the world are still mired in disagreements, some of them, as Jan Morris says in his Foreword to the volume, “inspired by degraded notions of patriotism.”
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