On September 23, 2026, the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face took seats at the UN Security Council. They were participating in a high-level briefing on artificial intelligence ...

The precipitous decline in funding for humanitarian assistance has made headlines around the world. In Nigeria, reports indicate that reductions in the delivery of food assistance, nutrition ...

On August 20th, the UN finally released the long-anticipated review of the secretary-general on the future of all forms of UN peace operations. For months, policymakers and others in the peace ...

A year ago, on August 28, 2025, the UN Security Council decided to close the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a large UN peacekeeping mission that has been stationed in southern Lebanon for ...

The typical account of how the United Nations picks its secretary-general gives the predominant role to the five permanent members of the Security Council (the P5). This is correct, but it risks ...

The lives and livelihoods of local communities in the borderlands of the Lake Chad Basin are disrupted by both climate change and conflict, which are mutually reinforcing. Conflict undermines social ...

The UN secretary-general’s UN80 initiative was initially intended to mark and celebrate the UN’s 80th anniversary but quickly became the moniker for UN reform. Much has been written about the ...

Last week, Devex reported on documents circulated by the Trump administration indicating that it “aims to pay a significant portion” of what it owes for the 2026 regular budget on the condition that ...

UN reform has been a perennial topic almost since 1945, but the issue has taken on added urgency amid attacks on the UN Charter, a major funding crisis, and multiple global emergencies. Once again, ...

Since the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was first deployed in 2002, its mandate has evolved significantly. The most recent reorientation came in 2022 in response to the Taliban’s ...

After two years of fraught negotiations, discussions over funding the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) are finally drawing to a close. They are almost certain to ...

Last night, the Trump administration finally announced the long-awaited results of its 180-day review of US membership in international organizations, conventions, and treaties. It announced that it ...