The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life | Alex Rondos and Mark Medish

We need neither ‘peace in our time’ nor ‘perpetual peace’ – but enough peace to keep civilization To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few powers that govern the security council. The paradox is that the great powers who created the institution in the 1940s and recently treat it with a cavalier cynicism are now the ones who need it most, as does the rest of the world. Continue reading...

Alex Rondos and Mark Medish · Fri, Oct 30, 2026, 3:00 AM
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The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life | Alex Rondos and Mark Medish

We need neither ‘peace in our time’ nor ‘perpetual peace’ – but enough peace to keep civilization

To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few powers that govern the security council.

The paradox is that the great powers who created the institution in the 1940s and recently treat it with a cavalier cynicism are now the ones who need it most, as does the rest of the world.

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