In Topic 9.7 we continue to discuss the increasing difficulties of globalization and the efforts by people to form International organizations which promote useful working relationships among nations. Dean Acheson, a former US Secretary of State, described how the mission of the United Nations fit with this goal of maintaining world peace and making international cooperation easier. Working through agencies such as the IMF (the International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank, the UN provides technical advice and Loans to developing nations. Other International organizations and treaties such as the World Trade Organization WTO and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), promoted free trade worldwide. However, the United Nations was born of the devastation of world wars, and preventing conflict was its primary goal.