Morning multilateralism, Dec. 10

IMF board delays Ireland loan vote until Irish parliament has its say. No cursing: World Bank official says Ghana has just the right amount of oil. As Cancun talks heat up, World Bank touts its climate-change credentials. Tough to get there from here: Georgia wants a roadmap to NATO membership. It’s good to be a ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

IMF board delays Ireland loan vote until Irish parliament has its say.

IMF board delays Ireland loan vote until Irish parliament has its say.

No cursing: World Bank official says Ghana has just the right amount of oil.

As Cancun talks heat up, World Bank touts its climate-change credentials.

Tough to get there from here: Georgia wants a roadmap to NATO membership.

It’s good to be a new member, says WTO chief.

The African Union lifts sanctions on Guinea.

UN officials brief the Security Council on developments in Burundi.

Finally, we’ll know how to call Europe: EU mulls creating unified phone number system.

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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