On this day in history, June 26, 1945, the United Nations was formally established with the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco, California. Article 111 of the charter indicated, "The present ...

The concept for the UN was started while WWII still raged on. No one wanted a repeat of the waste and disarray of another global conflict. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov ...

A United Nations Security Council delegation has visited Syria for the first time since the council's founding in 1945. The ...

In this fascinating inquiry, Muschik explores the role of the United Nations in the great post–World War II transition from a world of empires to a postcolonial system of nation-states. The UN was ...

In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. This resulting treaty, ...

The 80-year relationship between this country and the institutions, headquartered along New York City’s East River, has been one of the most felicitous ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source If ever there was a time for an insightful, sharply argued book on the role of the United Nations, now -- ...

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The United Nations this fall is marking its 80th birthday, but it hardly seems an occasion to celebrate. Looking back on the global body’s origins — it was midwived, after all, by the Soviet spy Alger ...

Representatives of the 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council carried out their first-ever visit to Syria ...

THE United Nations is so much a part of our post-war world that only a fool or a dreamy idealist will expect it to perform as if it were distinctly separate from our world. This obvious fact leads us ...