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.@ShashiTharoor: The #UN and its continued relevance have been thrown into sharp relief because of the ongoing #Ukraine crisis.

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.@lakshmiunwomen: There have been a series of crises—first the #COVID19 pandemic, then the #Afghanistan crisis, and then the #UkraineRussia war. Is that the last crisis that will break the #UN’s back?

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.@lakshmiunwomen: The #UN is actually three UNs: The Secretariat and the Secretary-General; the Member States; and lastly, ‘we the people’.

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.@lakshmiunwomen: The #UN is more than the sum of the power dynamics of the most influential member states. And how they act—or choose to not act—affects the UN’s role.

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.@lakshmiunwomen: The #UN lacks ambition, scale, and teeth. Where institutions like the UN Security Council have teeth—they do not have the bite.

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.@ShashiTharoor: The #UN is not a single entity; it is an unusual institute. It is a stage, where the member states play their part. When member states agree, the UN transforms into an actor.

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.@danielocarmon: Since the years the #UN was set up, the regulations have made the member states very influential in setting the stage for the Secretariat to be more limited than what it can do.

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.@danielocarmon: The #UN member states came to one place to do better for the whole world. However, it takes time to understand that each member state holds its flag very strongly, setting its policies as per its national interests.

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.@danielocarmon: The #UN is comprised of many “tensions”: Between developed and developing countries; between the Secretariat and the membership; and the ones who contribute the most to the budget and those who contribute lesser.

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.@AraratMirzoyan: We should define what we mean by the crisis of #multilateralism. Are the regional organisations part of this crisis or is this limited to organisations with universal representation?

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.@AraratMirzoyan: The #UN is a child of war. It was born from the ashes of World War II, with the promise to prevent the horrors of that war from ever being repeated.

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.@AraratMirzoyan: We are facing many global challenges, and we should keep the system of #multilateral diplomacy. But at the same time, we should understand that the organisation should not work in a business as usual mode.

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Jane Holl Lute: People earlier sought the protection of #sovereigns from marauding sovereigns. Now, people seek the protection of outsiders from marauding sovereigns.

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Jane Holl Lute: The government has lost the corner in the market on many aspects: The control of legality, the control of capital and the control of rule-making.

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Charles Kupchan: We are moving into an era in which there will be new #geopolitical divisions in a world in which power is much more widely distributed.

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Charles Kupchan: #Europe and America have been the dominating power centres for several decades. Now, there will be two blocs: A liberal international order on one side, and the autocratic capitalist order on the other side.

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Charles Kupchan: The liberal international order is not what it used to be. Populism & illiberalism are here to stay & the political landscape has changed. There is no readiness for countries to come together & build multilateral institutions as there used to be.

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