Can the UN Change?
Rocked by the oil-for-food scandal and unprecendented tension with the U.S. government, the United Nations took a serious beating in 2004, prompting Secretary-General Kofi Annan to call last year the organization's "annus horribilis."
Following on the institutional crisis surrounding the Iraq war, these difficulties have prompted several rounds of soul-searching that could lead to extensive reforms.
As Michael Glennon pointed out in Foreign Affairs in 2003, however, some of the most serious challenges to effective multilateral action lie not in the UN itself but in the very structure of international politics, which are likely to be even less amenable to reform than the bureaucracy in Turtle Bay.
Following on the institutional crisis surrounding the Iraq war, these difficulties have prompted several rounds of soul-searching that could lead to extensive reforms.
As Michael Glennon pointed out in Foreign Affairs in 2003, however, some of the most serious challenges to effective multilateral action lie not in the UN itself but in the very structure of international politics, which are likely to be even less amenable to reform than the bureaucracy in Turtle Bay.
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