The break-down of the world organizations

China takes the US to WTO over trade tariff plan, this is not the first time for a country to challenge the US in WTO this year that earlier this year South Korean responded to the US tariffs on the solar industry with WTO tariffs challenge. However, there is a question that if WTO really has the power to impose a global free-trade environment. In addition, this question can be asked about any international organizations, including the UN. For some countries which are relatively small and significantly rely on trading with one particular big country, they are more likely to follow the orders from these international organisations that are led by large countries; however, large countries have significant power to influence or even overturn the decisions of the international organizations.

The efficiency and power of the international organizations are largely dependent on the relationships across large countries. When the relationships are good, the international organizations are powerful and influential; and vice versa. Currently the US has issues with China and Russia that the US launched a trade war with China in order to close the trade gap and the US is also suspicious about the Russian influence in the last presidential. The world political environment largely weakens the power and influence of the international organizations.

From history, we can see that the international organizations are in general founded after major global conflicts or wars. The League of Nations was founded after the first world, the UN was founded after the second world, earlier the modern diplomat system was argued to form after the Napoleon War. In the beginning of these international organizations, countries are really careful about the possible large scale of conflicts; however, after a while, countries become relatively careless and the possibility of conflicts across large countries increases. The nuclear power has limited the possibility of wars between nuclear power countries but we may expect more other forms of conflicts between large countries.