multilateralism
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 3, 2021
It is not news that morale in the American State Department hit new lows during the Trump administration, under a president who despised and insulted the institutions and people engaged in international affairs. On Oct. 27, however, Secretary of…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • September 9, 2021
The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has weakened the Biden administration’s campaign to restore multilateralism as the touchstone of United States foreign policy, eroding international support for US global leadership. Incidentally, Biden also came out sounding at times a lot more…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations
- Helmut Volger
- • July 4, 2021
BERLIN — When Christoph Heusgen was appointed Germany’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York City in 2017, there were critical comments by foreign policy experts and journalists in our country. They voiced doubts about whether Heusgen, who…
- Categories: Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 15, 2021
After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 2, 2021
Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a memoir due out in June, is done concealing his anger over Donald Trump’s bad behavior on the international stage. The UN has always tried hard to maintain strong ties with the…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Alan Doss
- • January 18, 2021
This year, two expansive — and expensive — international peace and security entities will pass a significant milestone. The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the NATO operation in Afghanistan have been deployed…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 16, 2020
As President-elect Joe Biden finds his footing in foreign affairs, one of his foremost challenges will be re-engaging with the United Nations. So far, he has said little about the organization, but he has just appointed a new UN…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Tatiana Carayannis  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • October 19, 2020
This week we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlights our interdependence and the need for global cooperation. Enthusiasm for it, however, is in short supply amid deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations, Brexit and rising…
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS
- Celso Amorim  and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- • October 5, 2020
The world order is no more. Since the beginning of this year, and with greater intensity since March, when the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic, governments and civil societies have been grappling with a…
- Categories: Development, Governance, Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2020
Donald Trump, speaking on the opening day of the United Nations’ 75th General Assembly session — the same day that the United States officially tallied a coronavirus death toll of 200,000 people — reiterated all his familiar grievances against…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 5, 2020
Germany is anticipating two milestones between now and Dec. 31 — make that three. On July 31, its monthly rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council ends, and on Dec. 31 its two-year stint on the Council is…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency
- Harris Gleckman and Georgios Kostakos
- • June 4, 2020
Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate change to biodiversity. The General Assembly has not been able to meet as a group physically, but Security Council meetings have migrated online, with…
- Categories: Covid-19
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 1, 2020
Just how crazy is Donald Trump’s campaign to punish the World Health Organization over its apparent “China-centric” bias in the midst of a deadly pandemic? Let us count the ways. At the top of the list: It may contribute…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • April 15, 2020
CHICAGO — American cities have an intimate association with the United Nations. That relationship started in San Francisco 75 years ago later this month and continues today and, one hopes, tomorrow in the New York and Washington headquarters for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 4, 2019
As a united front in the fight to preserve the European Union, France and Germany are about to gain a global audience. During March and April, their top United Nations ambassadors, François Delattre and Christoph Heusgen, will take turns —…
- Categories: Climate Change, Gender Violence, Security Council Presidency
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