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Davos for Diplomats

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Unnecessary : The UN Security Council is an unwelcome hangover from a dysfunctional era. Image: Photonic / Alamy Stock


The United Nations is now 80, and its long slide toward irrelevance appears unstoppable. The design of the Security Council has become a recipe for paralysis, but that is only the start of the organisation's problems.

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Richard Haass

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