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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 29, 2020
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I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Nikki Haley. But John Bolton, in his infamous new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is so unrelenting in his snide comments about Haley, President Trump’s first ambassador to the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Fatma Medhi
- • November 5, 2019
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A stunning policy reversal by the United States regarding Western Sahara occurred last week, but it didn’t make many headlines. What happened? When the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on Western Sahara, renewing the mandate of…
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2018
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Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara since last year, is bringing the parties to the longstanding conflict over that region to a roundtable meeting in Geneva soon. Koehler…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 7, 2018
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For almost three centuries, through street protests, court battles and a civil war, the United States has sporadically but steadily advanced and expanded human-rights protections and commitments in domestic and foreign policies. Now Donald Trump and the most conservative,…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 4, 2018
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David Glaccum, the chief of staff for Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the United Nations, is leaving the New York office to move to Washington, D.C., where he will apparently continue working for Haley as a senior adviser based…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2018
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Nikki Haley is the most popular member of Donald Trump’s national security team, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, which found that 63 percent of voters approve of the job she is doing as United States ambassador to…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2018
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The 2018 winter session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was marked more by what didn’t happen than what did. There was still no official announcement in Geneva from the Trump administration about whether the United States would leave…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 23, 2018
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Nikki Haley insisted all along that she had no desire to become Donald Trump’s secretary of state. But with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, in line to succeed Rex Tillerson as the State Department’s top dog, Haley may soon…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2016
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It was inevitable that a triumphant Republican government in Washington, D.C., would sooner or later launch an assault on the United Nations. A near-unanimous UN Security Council resolution on Dec. 23 condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinians’ land provided the…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • July 18, 2015
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When war breaks out, you would think the easy answer would be to send in a United Nations peacekeeping mission, right? In fact, it is fairly rare and extraordinarily challenging to pull such a mission together. Even then, the…
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- Opinion by Patrick Rosenow
- • August 1, 2013
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President Obama’s choice of Samantha Power to become the next United States ambassador to the United Nations and her recent confirmation by the Senate sends a strong, positive signal to all human-rights defenders. “As one of our country’s leading…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • November 4, 2012
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In his new book, “Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order,” Kenneth Anderson forces readers who lean sympathetically toward the United Nations to consider why they support it despite its faults. On the other hand, the acerbic views…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • October 24, 2012
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Kofi Annan‘s existential crisis during his decade as United Nations secretary-general was without question related to the US-led invasion of Iraq. But the most fascinating part of his new memoir, “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace,” is…
- Categories: BOOKS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Max McGowen
- • August 20, 2012
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When it comes to mysteries, the United States’ decision to rejoin Unesco in 2002 under a Republican administration and after nearly two decades’ absence remains puzzling, but it appears the move can be traced to Hollywood. Unesco (United Nations…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Ramesh Thakur
- • June 4, 2012
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CANBERRA — The United Nations is located at the cross-section of Interdependence Avenue and Multilateral Cooperation Street in Manhattan. But its destiny lies at the intersection of Indifference Avenue and Hostility Street in Washington. That was the case, at…
- Categories: OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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