article selected by monster--Leader of the Nations

This article is selected from the Advanced magazine,July 2007, and the abstract is as following:

LEADER OF THE NATIONS
The U.N.'s new secretary-general hopes to usher in a new era

South Korean former Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon found out how hard his new job was going to be as soon as he officially assumed the position of the United Nations (U.N.) secretary-general in early January. He had to deal with the crisis in Somalia, where several countries were making a poorly orchestrated attempt to eliminate the African counterpart of the Afghan Taliban, and he had to help a legal government assert its power.
But when EU Foreign Minister Xavier Solana suggested sending U.N. peacekeepers to Somalia, it transpired that the U.N. nominally controls up to 100,000 peacekeeping troops in 19 hotspots. There is no end to those who would like to invite the blue helmets to their own lands.
In his first days in office, Ban Ki-moon realized that the main result of his predecessor Kofi Annan's 10-year rule was a sharp increase in the demand for the U.N. This is good news. The bad news is that the U.N. is too weak to parry this challenge...