Considerations of national interest are likely to be weighed even more assiduously in the wake of the recent revelations.
Author: James Bowen
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The Elders—Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Lakhdar Brahimi, and Mary Robinson—discuss means of increasing international cooperation around climate change, migration, and other issues.
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While the new US administration may not have targeted China directly, it has certainly taken several trade-related steps that may change the balance of international economic and political power.
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The Trump election campaign’s strong opposition to immigration of all stripes—but particularly from Mexico and Muslim countries—appears to have been endorsed by his surprise win and could inspire other governments to continue building walls and enacting strong protections at a time of record human displacement.
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China’s level of commitment to UNMISS objectives—and thus the general principles it would be expected to uphold in a DPKO leadership role—has been called into question.
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Looking at the factors that have narrowed the Australian playing field might be instructive for others aiming to further curb its behavior and guard against wider adoption of similar practices.
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Economic arguments against the necessary carbon-free revolution make increasingly less sense when politics are taken out of the equation.
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An overly sanguine response would nonetheless ignore the fact that the immediate result of an anti-China ruling might be no more than formalized rejection of its actions, which will likely continue apace.
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Europe has yet to pursue the offshore processing model that is the subject of the recent ruling. Nonetheless, a form of Australia’s strict border controls have been creeping into the continent’s policies and formal discussions for some time.
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Post-Cold War criticism of the Council seems to ignore the fact that the pre-1990s power struggles between the US and Soviet Union, and those countries in their respective spheres of influence, had a similarly, if not more pronounced, paralyzing effect on decision-making.
