Matthew Gould (Westminster) and Matthew D. Rablen (Brunel): Equitable Representation in the Councils of the United Nations: Theory and Application. The introduction to Democracy at the United Nations: UN Reform in the Age of Globalisation, ed. Giovanni Finizio and Ernesto Gallo. Christian Bueger (Cardiff): Making Things Known: Epistemic Infrastructures, the United Nations and the Translation of Piracy. Matthew Reynolds on how critics of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Palestine don't have their facts straight. Isobel Roele (Cardiff): Illiberal or Incorrigible? Identifying Public Enemies in the Twenty-First Century (“The UN Security Council is deadlocked over action to ease the humanitarian crisis in Syria. This paper suggests that one of the reasons lies in the foreign policy strategy of the Russian Federation.”). Scott Sheeran on how the U.N. Security Council veto is literally killing people: It's time to reform this broken system. United Nations Security Council 101: Peter Nadin on the origins, powers, instruments and activities of this premier forum in international politics; on what the UN Security Council is not; and on ideas for its reform. Juan C. Duque, Michael Jetter, and Santiago Sosa (EAFIT): UN Interventions: The Role of Geography. Jeni Whalan (UNSW): Partial Peace: The Politics of Taking Sides in UN Peacekeeping. William J. Durch and Michelle Ker on Police in UN Peacekeeping: Improving selection, recruitment, and deployment. The introduction to How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness by Jeni Whalan. Christopher McCrudden (QUB): Human Rights, Southern Voices, and “Traditional Values” at the United Nations. Why the UN? Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on how an attack on the UN is an assault on an institution that, while imperfect, was created to save lives on both sides of a conflict. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urges the US to halt the excessive use of force by police after the fatal shooting of Mike Brown.
