Every September, leaders from around the globe descend on New York to address the UN General Assembly. This year’s debate, ...

While various iterations of human protection and just war theories have existed across time and cultures, the massive ...

For more than five decades, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states have sought to turn their vulnerability as small states into collective strength. That effort is now under strain—perhaps like ...

A UN independent fact-finding mission to Sudan cited grave human rights violations and called for the immediate deployment of an independent and impartial force to protect civilians. Jenna Russo looks ...

International cooperation can take various forms. At the more formal end, organizations are established and endowed with budgets, staffs, and buildings from which to carry out their work. On the other ...

The United Nations is facing its greatest financial crisis since the organization’s founding at the end of World War II. The effectiveness and efficiency of the UN system is under unprecedented ...

The “crisis of multilateralism” has become a common refrain among commentators, especially since 2016 when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and Donald Trump won the United States ...

Since the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn and the rise of Abiy Ahmed to power in 2018—initially as the leader of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and later of the Prosperity ...

When deciding how to tackle a specific challenge, the UN has multiple policy options: an “agenda,” a “roadmap,” a “code of conduct,” or perhaps a “compact.” It is this last option that UN officials ...

UN reform has been a perennial topic almost since 1945, but the issue has taken on added urgency amid attacks on the UN Charter, a major funding crisis, and multiple global emergencies. Once again, ...

There is a growing sense that the UN is facing a legitimacy crisis due to a loss of trust. Reflecting this concern, UN member states committed to “rebuild trust in global institutions” in the Pact for ...

World leaders gathered last week for the general debate and other high-level events to kick off the substantive work of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. This high-level week comes at a ...