Three Reasons the United Nations May Be Moderately Relieved By Trump’s Decision to Pick Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador
UNIFIL Peacekeepers Injured By Chemical Agent | Guterres Goes to Russia | Can the UN Save Biodiversity?
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...
WATCH: UN Secretary General Invokes Physics to Explain Why American Leadership is Necessary for World Order
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...
The UN Offers an Off-Ramp from All-Out War Between Hezbollah and IsraelWe are as close as ever to an all out war between Israel and Hezbollah. A Hezbollah rocket attack killed...
What Kamala Harris Thinks About the United NationsKamala Harris had a thin foreign policy record before becoming Vice President in 2021. However, during her time as Vice...
What Would a Second Trump Presidency Mean for the UN?| An Interview with Malta’s UN AmbassadorIt’s been a tumultuous week in American politics: an assassination attempt on Trump, JD Vance nominated as the Republican vice...
Ukraine and Russia Clash at the Security Council | The Sustainable Development Goals Get Their Annual Check Up | Kamala Harris + the UN?There’s a great deal of uncertainty in Washington, D.C. over President Joe Biden’s capacity to run as the Democratic nominee...
Russia Assumes the Presidency of the Security Council | Whither R2P? | Republicans Seek to Defund the UNA new month means a new president of the UN Security Council. On July 1, Russia took the helm of...
