Without US support, there would be very little in the way of UN leadership The United Nations' Role Conference participants explored the role of the United Nations in the current world of global governance. An underlying theme was that the UN must better fit the international community in which it exists. Reform for the sake of reform will not suffice. Unless the world community is clear about what it wants the UN to do, the UN will be able to do very little. And, unless the US can resolve its own internal ambivalence about its relationship to the UN, the world body will be able to do even less.
Adequate funding is also a key.
A redefinition of the UN's relationship with the United States in a way that allows US power to be harnessed to the global agenda without unnecessarily undermining US freedom of action. The report concludes that in the next century the UN will continue to play some role as the superego of the world's nation-states, as a global conscience, while also serving as a forum for the coordination of action, however difficult implementation may be.