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Global Outlook: Global Challenges to Democracy

US Bars Palestinian Delegation: A Dangerous Precedent for UN Universality

By Jordan Ryan  |  04 September, 2025

While past exclusions of entry to the US targeted individuals, the revoking of visas—directed at an entire visiting leadership delegation from the PA and PLO—is without precedent in UN history.

Squaring the Circle

By Herbert Wulf  |  20 August, 2025

The US president's erratic tariff policy is disrupting global political relations. Long-standing alliances are being called into question, and new, unexpected alliances appear possible..

Reluctant Truth-Tellers and Institutional Fragility

By Jordan Ryan  |  19 August, 2025

In democracies under strain, the most important truths often arrive too late, uttered hesitantly by those who should have spoken earlier.

The Choice Is Still Clear: Renewing the UN Charter at 80

By Jordan Ryan  |  27 June, 2025

The Charter of the United Nations, born from the ashes of the most destructive war in human history, embodied a commitment: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to uphold the dignity and worth of every human being, and to build peace through cooperation—not conquest.

An Arab ‘MAGA’ Reset?

By Larbi Sadiki  |  20 May, 2025

US president Donald Trump’s visit to three of the world’s richest states in the Gulf calls for reflection on the prospects of an Arab MAGA (Make the Arab world Great Again).

This is Not Who We Are: The United States in Retreat

By Polly Byers  |  06 May, 2025

The current U.S. Administration's effort to disparage, dismantle and defund the institutions of America’s international leadership and engagement is strikingly at odds with America’s fundamental values and what it has long stood for.

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