Subject(s): United Nations. -- Political science. -- UN landscape, founding the United Nations- an evolutionary process, united nations and formation of global norms -- Engaging human needs on a global scale : Human rights- global common interest, free and fair elections, United nations and development, disarmament- successes and failures, to end the scourge of war- story of UN peacekeeping -- Processes of global burden sharing : Financing the United Nations, informal groups of member states, reforming the United Nations- lessons from a history in progress