International Affairs / The United Nations
For many decades, TCF has published books and reports related to reforming the U.N. and improving America’s relationship with it. Because Century is based in New York City, we have hosted numerous events involving leading U.N.-based diplomats.
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Michael Wahid Hanna is a fellow at The Century Foundation. He focuses on issues of international security, human rights, post-conflict justice and U.S. foreign policy in the broader Middle East.
The United Nations – All Content
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In his victory address on election night, Barack Obama broke a year-long silence on climate change to warn of "the destructive power of a warming planet." We are headed back to the United Nations negotiating table.Nov 14, 2012
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Yesterday, Rwanda was elected to a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. They ran uncontested as the representative from the African continent, but their election and term on the Council will not be without significant controversy.Oct 19, 2012
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In The News: A kinder, gentler U.N. Security Council?TCF Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Foreign Policy.Oct 19, 2012
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An illustrated map of the new, current, and outgoing members of the Security Council listed along with their rank on the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI, compiled annually by the United Nations, ranks composite scores of life expectancy, years of education, and gross national income per capital for each country. Although this measurement is not without its critics, it is the most prominent way to compare countries in terms of development.Oct 19, 2012
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Blog Post: Obama in the U.N. DenThe deadly September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and a wave of furious embassy protests forced a recasting of Obama's speech.Oct 3, 2012
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Blog Post: Ahmadinejad’s Last Hurrah-Ahmadinejad seemed to acknowledge that the hostility that characterizes U.S.-Iranian relations is not helpful to either: “I accept that the conditions between the United States and Iran have negatively affected both—and perhaps negatively affected the world at large.”Sep 24, 2012
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TCF Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Voice of America.Sep 24, 2012
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Blog Post: Why No Blue Helmets in Benghazi?Sep 21, 2012
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The last week has been absolutely exhausting in the amount of foreign policy news that has broken. Not a single day has gone by without some major turn of event happening, in literally every corner of the globe. Throughout all of this, what has the United Nations Security Council been doing?Sep 14, 2012
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Blog Post: The U.N.'s Responsibility to ProtectSep 7, 2012
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Blog Post: Ban in Tehran: “Fair and Balanced”?Ban Ki-moon said nothing about the sanctions in his address to the summit. But he made clear to the assembled leaders, and his Iranian hosts, that the onus is on Iran “to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program…Sep 5, 2012
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In The News: UN Chief to Visit Iran Despite US, Israel ObjectionSenior Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti Comments about Ban Ki-Moon's visit to Iran on Al Jazeera English.Aug 23, 2012
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Last Thursday United Nations mediator Kofi Annan announced he was folding his peacemaker’s tent, leaving Syria’s obdurate government to meet its fate in a test of arms.Aug 7, 2012
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In The News: Limits to Holding Tyrants AccountableSenior Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti's Letter to the Editor of the New York Times.Jul 13, 2012
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Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Bloomberg.Jul 2, 2012
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Blog Post: The Missing Russian DeliverymanKofi Annan was too diplomatic to say it in public, but his meaning as he “briefed” the United Nations General Assembly Thursday on the...Jun 7, 2012
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In The News: UN Observers Face Daunting Challenges in SyriaJeffrey Laurenti discusses the UN observer situation in Syria.May 17, 2012
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Blog Post: Stretching the Long Arm of the LawThis week I have shared the common fate of most citizens summoned to jury duty, milling about in the holding pen for prospective jurors without ever...May 3, 2012
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In The News: UN Security Council Expands North Korea SanctionsJeffrey Laurenti quoted in Voices of America.Apr 16, 2012
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In The News: Storms Brew in PyongyangMorton Abramowitz published in the National Interest.Apr 6, 2012




