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September 13, 2010

What the United Nations Should, and Shouldn't, Worry About
Posted by David Shorr

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From Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay Blog over at Foreign Policy, we have a fascinating report of a recent retreat of top UN officials at which they took stock of the global agenda and the world body's relation to it. From Lynch's reading of the leaked working papers from the meeting (available at FoxNews.com) and additional background in his post, it was quite a hand-wringing affair. In a couple areas, retreat participants had plenty of cause for worry. In terms of the sensitivities that Colum highlights, keeping the organization in a central role, they're setting themselves up.

To the extent that the UN retreat documents highlight the dire consequences of persistent multilateral dysfunction, the warning is perfectly apt, though the problem should hardly be laid at the feet of the UN. To the extent that the retreat tried to use these pressures to shake the organization out of its torpor and hide-bound ways, that is also to the good. But when the UN's standard and self-expectation is to be at the heart of the multilateral action no matter what the issue, this is self-defeating and represents a misreading of the international system.

It's also why I've always hated the idea of a competitive multilateral marketplace of inter-governmental organizations. It's not as if all IGOs supply the same commodity of multilateral cooperation. Different forums are distinctive in their composition, mandate, authority, and level of representation (along a political-to-technical spectrum). Division of labor, rather than competition, is the name of the game. The UN should be asking whether it is making the maximum contribution on the basis of what it's set up to do, not whether it's doing everything. With such a biodiversity in the multilateral ecosystem, aspiring to pre-eminence only sets the UN up for a fall.

Take the financial crisis and global economy, which Lynch highlights. With all due respect to the UN's vitally important role as steward of the Millennium Development Goals, it simply is not a key forum for international economic policy and the global economy. If Lynch's anecdote about Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushing for the November 2008 emergency G-20 summit to be held at UN Headquarters, President Bush was right to reject the offer and host the meeting in Washington. For better and for worse, the G-20 is an informal process of consultations among national governments, with the meetings organized by the host governments and without any formal or legal structures. The UN, with its core asset being its legally binding charter, ought to be the first to recognize such a division of labor.

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