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Now we have a new Pope, who will be the next #UnitedNations Secretary-General? Mark Goldberg, Anjali Dayal look at the race that everyone - OK maybe not everyone - is talking about. youtube.com/watch?v=pGFxer…

🤔 How do skepticism toward #multilateral orgs, funding cuts, & bilateral deals challenge the foundations of global & regional institutions? Join our Non-Resident Fellow Richard Gowan in this upcoming event to dive deeper into this topic 👇 diis.dk/en/event/the-u…

Listen to a top UN official describe the horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza right now: "I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you." History will never forget that we enabled this atrocity.

NEW COMMENTARY | Doing “Less with Less” at the UN Many at the UN have long felt it should slim down, but less thought has been given to what a smaller organisation will mean in practice. It is time to contemplate that question, writes Richard Gowan. crisisgroup.org/global-united-…

Continued militarisation in Asia is raising the probability of unintended collisions and accidents. In this new series focused on Asia’s evolving security architecture, we unpack the U.S. and China’s search for a new equilibrium. crisisgroup.org/asia/north-eas…

NEW COMMENTARY | The Gaza Starvation Experiment Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Amid a bloody rollout, the new mechanism risks entrenching starvation rather than ending it. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…

The UN Charter turns 80 at a critical moment as the UN faces financial challenges & mounting criticism. Can it reclaim its role in global peacemaking? Join Dr Thant Myint-U for a fresh perspective on its past, present & future. 📅25 Jun |📍Strand 🔗 bit.ly/3FIM3oa

Don't miss this wonderful episode of Empire Podcast- Really one of our very best: Murder in the Congo, The Cuban Missile Crisis, & India in the UN How did the first Asian UN Secretary General prevent multiple Armeggedons in the 1960s? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mur…

How did the Global South shape the UN in a post-colonial landscape? What does the future of the UN look like in these uncertain times? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mur…

In this bonus episode, William & anita anand are joined by Thant Myint-U, author of Peacekeeper: U Thant, The United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s, to discuss how his grandfather left an indelible mark on geopolitics youtu.be/H2nwvLUSPaU

We have offered a big chunk of this week's bonus episode for FREE for people who are not members! Listen as William Dalrymple and anita anand are joined by Thant Myint-U to discuss the dramatic history of the UN in the 1960s...

My piece on the past, present, and possible future of the United Nations in this week’s The Economist economist.com/by-invitation/…

The UN at 80 : The world body should go back to focusing on its founding principle: preventing war, writes Thant Myint-U economist.com/by-invitation/…

“In recent years, war, including between states—the very thing the UN was founded to prevent—has again been in the ascendancy,” laments Thant Myint-U. “There have been courageous efforts to provide humanitarian assistance but few, if any, to make peace” econ.st/4nd9ZRx

economist.com/by-invitation/… As the UN turns 80, Thant Myint-U argues it should be retooled for a less internationalist age The world body should go back to focusing on its founding principle: preventing war Jun 17th 2025

“No administrative fix can address the central question of what the UN today is actually meant to achieve,” writes Thant Myint-U. “The clearest path forward is a laser-like focus on the organisation’s founding purpose: preventing war” econ.st/4l92LMr

The UN Charter turns 80 at a critical moment as the UN faces financial challenges & mounting criticism. Can it reclaim its role in global peacemaking? Join Dr Thant Myint-U for a fresh perspective on its past, present & future. 📅25 Jun |📍Strand 🔗 bit.ly/3FIM3oa

The UN Charter turns 80 at a critical moment as the UN faces financial challenges & mounting criticism. Can it reclaim its role in global peacemaking? Join Dr Thant Myint-U for a fresh perspective on its past, present & future. 📅25 Jun |📍Strand 🔗 bit.ly/3FIM3oa