What Future for the UN and Multilateralism?
In a speech to
Barrett College, Arizona State University, Louise Frechette explores how the UN, a centerpiece of the current world order, is likely to evolve in the years to come. Against the background of changing political dynamics among UN member states, she asks whether the liberal world order – the set of rules and institutions that were put in place at the end of the Second World War and are anchored in the UN – can survive, or will be replaced by something else. She suggests that as a forum for discussion, a neutral space for negotiations of international norms, a tool for the harmonisation and coordination of international action, and an authoritative source of information and statistics, the UN’s functions cannot be replaced, but may be performed somewhere in the future, if not by the UN then by some new entity or entities enjoying universal membership.
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