UN Syria Envoy Geir Pedersen is Suddenly the Key Diplomat Managing the International Response to Syria’s Political Transition.
What’s the Relationship Between the ICC and the UN? | A COP29 Update | Another US Veto | World, Meet Tom FletcherWe cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode. Just hours before we recorded our conversation, the ICC issued...
Three Reasons the United Nations May Be Moderately Relieved By Trump’s Decision to Pick Elise Stefanik as UN AmbassadorDonald Trump has appointed New York Representative Elise Stefanik as his incoming Ambassador to the UN. Once widely seen as...
WATCH: UN Secretary General Invokes Physics to Explain Why American Leadership is Necessary for World Order
What the Republican Election Sweep Means for the United NationsRepublicans will soon control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and, of course, the White House. What does this Republican...
What a Second Trump Presidency Means for the UNThe important thing to understand about Donald Trump’s approach to the United Nations is that he is not intrinsically hostile...
UNIFIL Peacekeepers Injured By Chemical Agent | Guterres Goes to Russia | Can the UN Save Biodiversity?The Israeli Defense Forces have continued their deliberate attacks on UN peacekeeping positions in southern Lebanon, including an incident in...
Sudan’s “Emergency Response Rooms” Show the Future of Humanitarian AidWhen Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, something at once very common and profoundly extraordinary took place. In the...
All About UNGA79 | With Richard Gowan, Anjali Dayal and Mark Leon GoldbergIt’s an annual UNGA tradition! For the umpteenth year in a row, Richard Gowan, Anjali Dayal, and I sit down...
Three Takeaways from Biden’s Farewell UN SpeechWhen President Biden approached the General Assembly dais, I expected a bit of a historical tour of his 50-year career...
These Stories Will Drive the Agenda During UN WeekAs I write, hundreds of world leaders are on their way to New York for the opening of the 79th...
Why I Still Love UNGA After All These YearsFor most people in the foreign policy world, the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York...
Polio, Peacekeeping and Why the Universal Postal Union is Mundane Multilateralism at its Best“A rare bright spot amid the disastrous conflict in the Gaza Strip.” That is how UNICEF described the successful first...
Everything You Need to Know About the Summit of the FutureThe significance of the Summit of the Future is a somewhat tricky to convey. On the one hand, it is...
Can an 18-Year-Old Security Council Resolution Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East? | Plus: Sierra Leone and ECOSOC in the SpotlightBefore we sat down to record this week’s episode, authorities in Iran announced that Hamas’ political leader, Ismael Haniyeh, was...
