Why America still needs the United Nations

In September 2002, a radical new document declared that no nation can build a safer, better world alone. These words came not from some utopian internationalist or ivory-tower academic, but from the new National Security Strategy of the United States. For all its underpinnings in realpolitik, the...

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Main Author: Tharoor, Shashi
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