By attempting to impose legal restrictions on the ability of nations to use force, the LN saw the beginnings of international law increasingly limit the freedom of states. Despite being considered a failure, the LN demonstrated that war prohibition was legally and politically possible and laid the foundations for the UN and the ICJ in subsequent years. After World War II the United Nations took the position previously supported by the League of Nations with the goal of maintaining peace, security and preventing another catastrophic war. With the dissolution of the League of Nations, the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) was also replaced. Therefore, alongside the Charter of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been added. The reasoning was to start over. As there was a feeling of poor representation among states within the previous framework of the LN and the PCIJ. The new court, still in place today, is more inclusive of states outside Europe. Therefore, in its younger years, the UN and the International Court of Justice were considered simply an instrument of US diplomacy (Archer 2001, p.69). However, when a change in global politics occurred, this US-oriented political trend did not occur