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This article aims to focus on two important aspects of the world as it is today, firstly recognizing and analyzing new challenges that the world is facing 2001 onwards, and second to gauge how equipped the international system is to deal with these challenges, with an important focus on the efficiency of the United Nations and the role it has to play. It shall also trace the effectiveness of the UN throughout these years in resolving major world crises’. After 2001, the world underwent a complete change regarding the geopolitical landscape due to global terrorism, increased bilateral conflicts, forced migration, economic instability, the rise of threatening non-state actors, and heightened use of the internet and social media. This article explains the functioning of the United Nations as a body. It shall critically analyze the efficacy of the UN as an organization and its preparedness to deal with these challenges posed to the world order today. The United Nations is more relevant now than ever. This study concludes that United Nations can improve its performance by dealing with the problems of the world efficiently and effectively.