Morning multilateralism, Feb. 9

The United Nations sounds the alarm about China’s drought and rising wheat prices. NATO’s planned billion-dollar headquarters raises eybebrows. Russia wants the UN Security Council to visit the Middle East. Full court press: Kenya is ready to lobby the Security Council on the International Criminal Court. UNESCO plans to send a mission to the World ...

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

The United Nations sounds the alarm about China's drought and rising wheat prices.

The United Nations sounds the alarm about China’s drought and rising wheat prices.

NATO’s planned billion-dollar headquarters raises eybebrows.

Russia wants the UN Security Council to visit the Middle East.

Full court press: Kenya is ready to lobby the Security Council on the International Criminal Court.

UNESCO plans to send a mission to the World Heritage site caught in the Thai-Cambodia crossfire.

A Facebook page asks whether ASEAN’s chief should replace Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General. Meanwhile, ASEAN tries to mediate the Thailand-Cambodia dispute without the UN’s help.

The European Union struggles to reopen its troubled carbon markets.

Audit faults the United Nations for hiring PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ethiopia takes a step toward joining the World Trade Organization.

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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