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Environment: UN hopes to pluck a deal from Copenhagen’s chaos, Financial Times, 26 January 2010, p. S3
Governments were hoping to forge a global agreement that would form the basis for a new treaty on climate change – the first that would oblige both developed and developing countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Hopes of a truly global agreement were dashed at the last minute, however... More

U.N. Official Says Climate Deal is at Risk, New York Times, 21 January 2010.
WASHINGTON — Just a month after world leaders fashioned a tentative and nonbinding agreement at the climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen, the deal already appears at risk of coming undone, the top United Nations climate official warned on Wednesday. More

Poor and Emerging States Stall Climate Negotiations, The New York Times, 16 December 2009.
COPENHAGEN — If the United Nations climate talks here are entering their final two days in virtual deadlock, it is in large measure because of delays and diversions created by a group of poor and emerging nations intent on making their dissatisfaction clear. More

Tough U.N. Critic Tapped to Represent U.S. on Human Rights Council, Fox News, 22 November 2009.
Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe has called the U.N. policy and record toward human rights abuses erratic, inhumane and dysfunctional. U.N. critics are cautiously optimistic she'll bring that hard-nosed attitude to the Human Rights Council as its U.S. ambassador. More 

Review of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Origins of United Nations, 20 November 2009.
The United Nations is invariably judged on the basis of what it is not. It is not a world parliament, still less a world government. It is not a deus ex machina that comes on stage in the final act of global dramas to save mortal nations from the consequences of their follies. It is “no enchanted palace”...More