Well before COVID-19 hit, the Trump administration’s “America First” policies had deprived the world body of its traditional leader, the United States, while rising geopolitical frictions had…
- Stewart M. Patrick
- WPR
The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced these dynamics, accentuating U.S. unilateralism and exacerbating an increasingly heated rivalry between the U.S. and China.
Much of the U.N.’s productive work has been brought to a…
The Security Council dithered for months on a…