List of United Nations articles
![A protester waves a Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian “Nakba 76” rally in Washington, D.C.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2153025237.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Why the U.S. Should Recognize Palestinian Statehood
Sovereignty would serve America’s interests—and Israel’s.
![A swan makes a nest out of plastic trash near a sewage drain on the banks of the Danube River, close to downtown Belgrade, Serbia, on April 18, 2022.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/swan-plastic-GettyImages-1240064171.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
No, Recycling Won’t Solve Our Plastic Problem
The world must come together to address the full life cycle of this ubiquitous material.
![Representatives from countries of the United Nations sit in tiered rows with placards bearing names of their countries on them including: Togo, Thailand, Sweden, Swaziland, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Spain, and South Afrida along with many others.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/global-south-nieo-united-nations-1974-UN7594937.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Who’s Afraid of the Global South?
Revisiting two 50-year-old U.N. resolutions should help dispel fears about a shifting economic world order.
![Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hold a press conference after a trilateral meeting during an AUKUS summit in San Diego.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Biden-minilateralism-Quad-AUKUS-United-Nations-GettyImages-1473352798.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Biden’s ‘Coalitions of the Willing’ Foreign-Policy Doctrine
The latest flurry of U.S. diplomacy shows how the president is all about “minilateralism.”
![Trucks carrying humanitarian aid make their way along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 10.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gaza-aid-trucks-rafah-GettyImages-2065687669.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How to Get More Aid Into Gaza
A joint international task force could quickly mobilize an emergency system to clear shipments through the Rafah border crossing.
![An illustration shows the laurel leaves of the United Nations logo tied in a knot.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/united-nations-paralysis-deadlock-israel-ukraine-brian-stauffer-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The U.N. Security Council’s Default Is Deadlock
Countries have used the body’s impasse over conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine to advance their own interests.
![Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits the Brazilian Battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 25, 2010.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lula-Brazil-Haiti-UN-MINUSTAH-GettyImages-97062140.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Why Lula Is Silent on Haiti
Brazil’s earlier intervention not only failed to secure the Caribbean nation—it is also linked to Bolsonaro’s militarization of government.
![People walk past the damaged headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on Feb. 15.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UNRWA-Gaza-Palestine-Israel-Hamas-war-GettyImages-2009224529.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Don’t Give Up on UNRWA
The agency, which goes to great lengths to remain neutral, is Palestinians’ only hope.
![U.N. Security Council members vote on a U.S.-led resolution for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations headquarters.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UN.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
What the Latest U.N. Cease-Fire Vote Means
The U.S.-led resolution signals a subtle shift in the Biden administration’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
![A U.N. General Assembly meeting regarding the commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba, at U.N. headquarters in New York City.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UNGA-GettyImages-1244427073.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The U.N. Gets the World to Agree on AI Safety
A new resolution on safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence was endorsed by all 193 member countries.
![Demonstrators wave Sudanese national flags and flags representing the anti-coup youth group Angry Without Borders during a procession marking the fourth anniversary of the Sudanese revolution, in Khartoum, Sudan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1-Sudan-refugees-Egypt-FP_EYokes_Egypt_006.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
For Sudanese Refugees, Egypt Is Barely a Refuge
As the international community turns to other crises, people fleeing Sudan’s war face dire economic conditions.
![President Harry Truman delivers the closing speech at the International Organization conference before the delegates of the 5 member nations, June 26, 1945 in San Francisco.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1210034771.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The U.N. Should Move (Back) to California
It doesn’t make sense for the leading international organization to be in New York anymore.
![A man stands with a water bottle in the sun during a heat wave in Algiers, Algeria, on July 18, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/algeria-heat-wave-GettyImages-1540909828-e1704719887233.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Death of the 1.5 Degree Climate Target
The current path of climate policy is at a dead end—a welcome opportunity to rethink.
![A soldier fighting for Ukraine stands in front of a destroyed monastery in Dolyna, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GettyImages-1245827258.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
FP Live Looks Back at 2023
Stephen Walt explains why countries are accusing America of hypocrisy.
![An Indonesian soldier serving with the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) waves the U.N. flag at Israeli soldiers in the village of Adaisseh, Lebanon on August 3, 2010.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GettyImages-155631738.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The United Nations Completely Failed in Lebanon
How a U.N. peacekeeping mission may have inadvertently produced Israel’s next war.