The UN’s long-standing role in supporting negotiated solutions to conflict has not yet been squared with its simultaneous embrace of counterterrorism.
As UN peace operations increasingly take on counterterrorism and C/PVE roles, the risks of replicating the costly failures of the past are very real.
The UN is struggling to stay relevant amid increased competition from a multitude of more informal and less inclusive actors. Informal coalitions and clubs are increasingly important tools for security, trade agreements, regulation of international banking, and the handling of COVID-19. The new…
When it comes to the narrative war, Russia is winning, evidenced by its successful domestic repression framed as national protection and its international portrayal of the conflict as an ideological battle against Western imperialism. The price to pay may be a fractured, more dangerous multipolar…
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