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75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode

June 25, 2020

On June 26, 1945, delegates from 50 nations who had gathered in San Francisco over two months to attend the United Nations Conference on International Organization signed the United Nations Charter, forging a new world order. Seventy-five years in and a whole different world later, the UN is celebrating its past, present and future, …

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Who Knew? Putin Loves the United Nations

June 24, 2020

by Stephen Schlesinger

It turns out that Vladimir Putin is a history buff. He has just written a lengthy piece for the American magazine National Interest, titled “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War 2″ and published on June 18. In his assessment, Putin reviews the events leading to the second world war, including the …

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The UN-75 Declaration, a Daring Commitment for a More Perfect World

June 23, 2020

by Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu

On the heels of the 1930s Great Depression and in the midst of global turmoil — World War II — leaders from the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in 1944 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., to consider a new postwar international architecture to succeed …

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Will the UN Make It to 100?

June 2, 2020

by Thomas G. Weiss

Seventy-five years ago this month, delegates in San Francisco signed the United Nations Charter. Anniversary events were supposed to culminate in the commemoration of the entry into force of the world organization’s constitution on Oct. 24. That, of course, was before Covid-19 turned the world upside-down. Like school and university commencements, the UN’s celebration …

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UN at 75: The Security Council Must Remember Why It Exists

April 21, 2020

by Mona Ali Khalil and Fred Carver

The United Nations is turning 75 this year. While the UN has so far successfully averted a third world war, the aggressions in Iraq, Ukraine and Syria remind us that interstate conflicts remain a real and present danger. The Security Council’s failure to resolve intrastate conflicts, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to …

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Will the UN-75 Declaration Signify More Than a Birthday Party?

February 17, 2020

by Richard Ponzio

WASHINGTON, D.C. — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres used his annual State of the World speech to the General Assembly last month to outline his 2020 priorities. He stressed four threats to progress in the 21st century: growing geostrategic tensions and mass violence in fragile states, creating an unprecedented refugee crisis; the climate catastrophe; rising mistrust …

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Melissa Fleming Wants to Change the UN’s Public Image. Can She Do It?

January 27, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion

The United Nations turns 75 this year, all year long. As its purpose is being questioned by some of its biggest donor nations, including the United States, the UN has a new person to reshape its public image through its global communications office, starting with how it presents its news. PassBlue obtained an exclusive copy …

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UN75

75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode

Who Knew? Putin Loves the United Nations

The UN-75 Declaration, a Daring Commitment for a More Perfect World

Will the UN Make It to 100?

UN at 75: The Security Council Must Remember Why It Exists

Will the UN-75 Declaration Signify More Than a Birthday Party?

Melissa Fleming Wants to Change the UN’s Public Image. Can She Do It?

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