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re: What if there were no UN t?
gbaikie — (archived)

"But if the the current US administration is blaming the UN, I consider this a good sign because this means the US is interested and might positively contribute to its modernization."

Yes, current Administration is interested in doing this and a lot of other countries are also interested in this [the problems are very obvious]. But that doesn't mean that the UN can be improved- the various reforms may work, but the UN's main problems are problems common to any bureaucracy.

For instance, look at what Goldin did in regards to the NASA bureaucracy. I would say that Goldin's main effort was to reform NASA's bureaucracy and on that score, failed pretty miserably- it could be said he made it worse. Now, no doubt there was some improvement but I would also say there was some damage done. In other words it was a mixed bag and hard to see a marked improvement [due to Goldin efforts- though it's possible in the same time period it could got even worse without Goldin's effort].

As far as I know, fixing bureaucracies is *black box* type "technology". And you would utterly change this world, if there was some known effective way to improve bureaucracies.

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