Thomas G. Weiss
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Browne and Weiss co-directed the Future UN Development System Project (FutureUN.org) for 10 years with support from four European governments.
Recent assaults by the Trump administration and other United Nations member states on multilateralism in general and development assistance in particular have attracted attention, but fault lines were apparent from the start. Sir John Boyd Orr, the Nobel laureate elected …
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, SDGs, US-UN Relations
Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
“Ukraine Week” at the United Nations, marking the sad end of the first year of Russia’s illegal war, culminated in a resounding General Assembly vote against Russia’s recolonization — 141 countries demanded withdrawal versus Moscow and only six major recipients …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
AntĂłnio Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process — …
- Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
This week we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlights our interdependence and the need for global cooperation. Enthusiasm for it, however, is in short supply amid deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations, Brexit and rising populisms. …
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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Seventy-five years ago this month, delegates in San Francisco signed the United Nations Charter. Anniversary events were supposed to culminate in the commemoration of the entry into force of the world organization’s constitution on Oct. 24. That, of course, was …
- Categories: UN75, US-UN Relations
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CHICAGO — American cities have an intimate association with the United Nations. That relationship started in San Francisco 75 years ago later this month and continues today and, one hopes, tomorrow in the New York and Washington headquarters for the …
- Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
Was it only two years ago that so many people were elated by the appointment of AntĂłnio Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations? After public debates organized by the president of the General Assembly and informal ones by the …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
GENEVA — Change is in the air again on First Avenue. Among numerous reform options being bandied about, none will be more consequential than those on financing the United Nations system. There are the sledgehammer arguments: drastic slashes in funding …
- Categories: UN Agencies
There is an ongoing process of change in the United Nations development system, albeit a slow one given the size of the challenges. At the country level, more UN country teams (UNCTs) are endorsing the principles of Delivering as One, …
- Categories: Development, SDGs
GENEVA — Whether or not he is a fan of Chinese characters, AntĂłnio Guterres will have to discover the double meaning of a crisis as opportunity. United Nations corridors on First Avenue in New York are buzzing with anxiety about …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
AntĂłnio Guterres, the new United Nations secretary-general, was chosen on merit and takes over the UN during an especially turbulent period and after a decade of low-key leadership and low staff morale. The “first” UN of governments includes the five …
- Categories: Secretary-General
The results of the latest FUNDS survey of global experts, conducted during the winter of 2015-16, contains clear messages about the next United Nations secretary-general: s/he should be a world leader with integrity and political courage who will prioritize UN …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the United Nations Charter should draw attention to the 1942-45 United Nations Alliance that gave rise to the world body and the underpinnings of contemporary global governance. While anniversaries …
- Categories: OPINIONS
GENEVA — For only the second time — the first was in 1996 — the electoral campaigns for the American president and the United Nations secretary-general are running in parallel. Both promise to be long and protracted. Each already has …
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