Links to recent news and analysis on the United Nations and other multilateral institutions tasked with rules-based international cooperation to deliver sustainable development.
Sanctions achieve nothing
27/5/2021: Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins argues that Belarus has become a model of the impotence of sanctions. European and American politicians reach for economic sanctions as they used to reach for gunboats or bombers. He argues for the exercise of soft power to sustain the conversation of freedom.
Source: The Guardian
Secretary-General upholds value of UN Charter for a world in turmoil
9/1/2020: Amid an era of rising geopolitical tensions and declining trust between nations, the United Nations Secretary-General has encouraged countries to “come home” to a defining document of the international community: the UN Charter.
Source: UN News
The African development model: clone of Asia?
31/1/2019: Labour-intensive export-led industrialisation worked for China, but Africa is not China. It must come up with its own strategies to reduce poverty.
Source: African Arguments
Globalization 4.0 for Whom?
19/12/2018: The elites gathering in Davos next month have yet to acknowledge the need for a new approach to governing the global economy. The neoliberal model of race-to-the-bottom competition has resulted in rising inequality and political discontent. Source: Project Syndicate
Grappling with globalization 4.0
5/11/2018: The forces of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have ushered in a new economy and a new form of globalization, both of which demand new forms of governance to safeguard the public good. Source: Project Syndicate