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"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Outlook for UN: 'radical' overhaul
Felicity Barringer/NYT
Saturday, September 20, 2003
A mood of skittish uncertainty
has descended on the leaders of the United Nations. They are eager to overhaul their institution, but worry whether any change can give it the freedom it needs to survive without being seen as either a lackey of the United States or an easily swattable gadfly.
Today, Europeans view the United Nations as the embodiment of international law and world order. The United States seems to view it as a tool to be used when handy. Africans and Asians tend to have more case-specific uses for UN diplomacy and its general advocacy for the poor and disadvantaged, who are not much on the minds of rich nations.
But for UN officials, many of whom have never worked anywhere else, the bottom-line question remains how to relate to the United States.
Felicity Barringer/NYT
Saturday, September 20, 2003
A mood of skittish uncertainty
has descended on the leaders of the United Nations. They are eager to overhaul their institution, but worry whether any change can give it the freedom it needs to survive without being seen as either a lackey of the United States or an easily swattable gadfly.
Today, Europeans view the United Nations as the embodiment of international law and world order. The United States seems to view it as a tool to be used when handy. Africans and Asians tend to have more case-specific uses for UN diplomacy and its general advocacy for the poor and disadvantaged, who are not much on the minds of rich nations.
But for UN officials, many of whom have never worked anywhere else, the bottom-line question remains how to relate to the United States.
