Davos For Diplomats

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September 30, 2025 . 4:09 PM

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By Richard Haass, Project Syndicate | Sep 29, 2025

The United Nations is now 80, and its long slide toward irrelevance appears unstoppable. The design of the Security Council has become a recipe for paralysis, but that is only the start of the organization's problems.

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