Author: Chris Borgen

Peggy and Julian have started us off with some great opening questions on UN reform. Also in the spirit of tossing our some preliminary comments, I want to begin by asking what it is we are actually debating about. Criticisms of the UN generally come under two broad categories: means and ends. Critiques of the means of the UN...

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