Murat Onsoy (Hacettepe): Unveiling the Unknown Face: The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Democracy. Sankaralingam Pandiaraj (AALCO): Strengthening the Role of United Nations in Global Economic Governance: Some Reflections in the Wake of the Recent Global Economic Crisis. Kara S. Alaimo (Hofstra): How the United Nations Should Promote the Post - 2015 Development Agenda. Christopher McCrudden (QUB): Human Rights, Southern Voices, and “Traditional Values” at the United Nations. Alexander Bligh (Ariel): The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), 1956–67: Past Experience, Current Lessons. John Karlsrud (NUPI): The UN at War: Examining the Consequences of Peace-enforcement Mandates for the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali. In Congo, peacekeepers at war: What happens when a bold new idea turns the UN into just another army? Lisa Hultman (Uppsala), Jacob Kathman (SUNY-Buffalo), and Megan Shannon (Colorado): Beyond Keeping Peace: United Nations Effectiveness in the Midst of Fighting. Paul Novosad (Dartmouth) and Eric Werker (Harvard): Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat. Jarvis J. Lagman on a case for democratizing the United Nations. Do we really want a reformed United Nations? Marko Kovacevic interviews Richard Gowan, Research Director at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU. Martin Edwards and Brandon Kotlow on five challenges for the UN in 2015.
