In this article we attempt to evaluate the current status of UN's political authority, by way of both qualitative and quantitative methods, as we posit the existence of a positive relation between UN's authority and a set of variables. After assessing data, we intend to generate debate on the limits and the ontological nature of the United Nations organization in contemporary international politics, as we support the hypothesis that the degree of political authority the UN is vested with is increasing in the course of the last six decades.
UN; political authority; international politics; international organizations