Whether it concerns human rights abuses or nuclear weapons programs, the daily news emerging from Iran is grim. Just last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported heightened concern that, because of "extensive" and "credible" information "in terms of the technical detail, the time frame in which the activities were conducted and the people and…

Today, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton announced his resignation as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. It is highly regrettable that the nation will not have this hard-working diplomat at the head of our U.N. team in the years ahead. As the following quotes by journalists, U.S. and foreign government officials, and policy experts show,…

According to reports, the United Nations is on course to select its next Secretary-General in October.[1] The process gained steam this week with an informal straw poll in the Security Council.[2] The details of the "blind" straw poll reveal very little about how much support each of the current candidates really have. Instead, it was merely a way for candidates to…

Despite Japan's strong support for the United Nations, its campaign to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is in doubt. For one thing, China is adamantly opposed. Yet, this setback has not deterred Japan from continuing to look for meaningful ways to reform the UN. This week, the Japanese government launched a campaign to establish a minimum…

President George W. Bush's monumental decision to rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2003 caught both conservatives and liberals by surprise. After all, the U.S. had pulled out of that organization in 1984 because it had become bloated and grossly over-politicized. At every turn, it espoused policies that ran…