Richard Gowan
- Damilola Banjo
- • August 4, 2022
Myanmar’s military junta has extended its state of emergency by six months, a year and a half after it overthrew the democratically elected government in a February 2021 coup. The ruling was announced on Aug. 1, the same day…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council Presidency
- Damilola Banjo  and Kacie Candela
- • August 3, 2022
As Security Council president in August, China wants to keep the UN body “cool” — literally and figuratively — by navigating the fine line of staying close to Russia while not souring relations too much with the West; discussing…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 4, 2021
This year marks the last stretch of Secretary-General António Guterres’s current term at the United Nations, but in January he announced his desire to seek a second five-year term, ending speculation as to whether he would run again. If…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • April 13, 2020
The three elected members that represent Africa on the United Nations Security Council generally present a unified front on the continent’s numerous challenges — many involving foreign intervention — that land on the Council’s agenda. The problem for Africans…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2016
The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the…
- Categories: Special Report, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 15, 2016
Right off the bat, the profile avatar of the @eweNitedNations Twitter account lets readers know what to expect in its mordantly satirical jabs at the United Nations Security Council. A sheep, photoshopped into wearing the blue beret of UN…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 1, 2014
The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations tried to maintain calm in many regions in 2013, but none more so than in Africa. In December alone, it lost numerous peacekeepers in three missions on the continent. By year’s end,…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Helmut Volger
- • April 30, 2013
Formed as a “club” of nation states, the United Nations took some time to find out that cooperation with regional organizations might be of some use in improving social and economic living conditions as well as maintaining international peace…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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