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Global JusticeThe UN: From Idealism to Reality
On February 23rd, the United Nations Security Council held a debate on the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter. There, US...
Embargo: United States Against the World
Each year Cuba asks the United Nations to lift the economic embargo the United States imposes on the nation of Cuba. For...
Global CooperationIssues at the United Nations 69th General Assembly
Last week I attended at my first panel on Capitol Hill, which pertained to the currently ongoing 69th United Nations General Assembly...
Global JusticeThe UN and Humans of New York Team Up
If you have not yet heard of Brandon Stanton and his photo blog, Humans of New York, you need to check it...
Peace & DisarmamentThe Debate on UN Funding
$1.5 billion. That was the amount of the United States' debt to the United Nations at the beginning of the 2009 fiscal...
Global CooperationInnovation and Cooperation: The Future of UN Peacekeeping
At a recent event held at the Brookings Institute, Under-Secretary General of Peacekeeping Missions for the United Nations Hervé Ladsous led a...
Are Human Rights the Cost of Global Governance?
Uganda’s Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa has been elected President of the UN General Assembly. While this is primarily a ceremonial position, Kutesa’s...
Peace & DisarmamentGlobal 911: It’s Time for a UN Emergency Peace Force
Genocide, mass atrocities, violent oppression; these acts, these words, invoke fear, disgust, anger and beg the question why? Human history is littered...
Global JusticeGlobal Justice: The Unrealizable Promise of International Institutions
In recent years, we’ve come to recognize that the world is interconnected, perhaps in ways and on a scale that it never...
Global CooperationU.S. Power Play over Iran and U.N.
The recent move by the Obama administration to bar Hamid Aboutalebi, nominated to be the Iranian ambassador to the UN, from entering...
Global JusticeCommission: The Security Council is to Blame for Syria
The UN Security Council has been called out by its own the Human Rights Council's Commission on Inquiry in Syria as enabling...