This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, but will also be a time of transition for the organization. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to an end this year, an occasion that calls for critical reflection as the United Nations prepares to launch the MDGs’ successors, the Sustainable Development Goals. Similarly, as Ban Ki-moon, current UN secretary-general, nears the end of his second term in the office, we must study that post, its role, and the way Ban’s successor will be chosen at the end of 2016. Described by Trygve Lie, the first man …read more
Source: Harvard International Review