Slow death or new direction for the UN?

The UN’s challenge now is to fashion a viable agenda without betraying its founding charter.

For much of its life, the United Nations has hidden behind the comfortable maxim that, ‘If we didn’t have it, we would have to invent it’. Now at the venerable age of 75 (old enough to have been a 2020 US presidential candidate), the organisation still enjoys widespread approval in global opinion polls.