Morning multilateralism, Dec. 8
Russia protests NATO Baltic-defense plan outlined in Wikileaked cables (though the plan was hardly news, points out the Economist). IMF chief Strauss-Kahn criticizes the EU’s "case-by-case" response to the financial crisis. The U.N.’s environment program releases a new report on glacier-melting; plus, the U.N. refugee agency celebrates successful pledging session. On Sudan, Human Rights Watch ...
Russia protests NATO Baltic-defense plan outlined in Wikileaked cables (though the plan was hardly news, points out the Economist).
Russia protests NATO Baltic-defense plan outlined in Wikileaked cables (though the plan was hardly news, points out the Economist).
IMF chief Strauss-Kahn criticizes the EU’s "case-by-case" response to the financial crisis.
The U.N.’s environment program releases a new report on glacier-melting; plus, the U.N. refugee agency celebrates successful pledging session.
On Sudan, Human Rights Watch pleads with the Security Council not to forget the ICC.
In the 1950s and 1960s, China talked about an alternative to the U.N.; now, it’s promoting an alternative Nobel Peace Prize.
El Tigre: Meet the African Union’s new peacekeeping chief.
"Issues are resolved": EU backs Russia’s WTO entry.
David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist
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