United Nations

A series of missile tests make it plain that carrots don’t work without sticks.

There’s lots of history at the Security Council, but few changes.

From the White House to Turtle Bay, sanctions have never been more popular. But why are they so hard to make work?

Famine and destitution loom, yet more aid could strengthen the Taliban.

“He thought there [was] no government in Afghanistan for him to represent at the U.N.,” one Afghan diplomat said.

The existing sanctions regime on Taliban leaders makes it hard for the world to help the Afghan people.

The U.N.’s obsession with process is making conflict and instability more likely.

Diplomatic spats could undermine U.N. position ahead of key national elections.

Libya still reeling from proxy war between rival foreign powers.

Internal U.N. documents detail the burden foreign envoys face from sanctions and a stiflingly controlling government in Pyongyang.

David Beasley’s unsanctioned mediation efforts in Khartoum rankle U.S. and U.N. diplomats.

After two weeks of intense climate negotiations, here’s where progress was made—and where negotiations fell short.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has failed to fulfill demands for reform—and may soon face the consequences.

Inside North Korea’s campaign to penetrate the U.N. sanctions experts’ wall of secrecy.

Conservative President Ebrahim Raisi, deeply distrustful of the West, looks to deepen ties with China and Russia.

Ten years after Qaddafi’s death, Libya is a harbinger of the enduring global disorder to come.

Are its U.N. panel obstructions about short-term leverage, or are they intended as an existential threat to the system?

U.N. sanctions inspectors feel unsupported and unsafe.

China’s method for blocking sanctions regimes.

How the world came to depend on U.N. punitive measures and why the enforcement system is under threat—the first in a series by FP’s Colum Lynch.