Morning multilateralism, Dec. 20

Security Council deadlocked on Korea statement; Russia’s pushing for a UN special envoy. As its two-year turn on the Security Council ends, Turkey’s already talking about doing it again. The International Criminal Court is interested in President Bashir’s overseas bank accounts. Lula wants an expanded Mercosur, not least to negotiate as a bloc within the ...

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

Security Council deadlocked on Korea statement; Russia's pushing for a UN special envoy.

Security Council deadlocked on Korea statement; Russia’s pushing for a UN special envoy.

As its two-year turn on the Security Council ends, Turkey’s already talking about doing it again.

The International Criminal Court is interested in President Bashir’s overseas bank accounts.

Lula wants an expanded Mercosur, not least to negotiate as a bloc within the World Trade Organization.

UN complains about intimidation of its staff in Ivory Coast; plus, the World Bank reportedly adds its voice to chorus calling for peaceful power transfer.

In a new report, the OECD gives Spain a mixed grade.

Is a key UN technology committee excluding non-state voices? (h/t Opinio Juris)

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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