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August 1, 2005
Fork in the Road: UN Reform and the United States. Jeffrey Laurenti, The World Today, August 2005.
Europeans may be forgiven for thinking the United Nations just does not matter to Americans. Even political leaders on the side of American politics that supposedly guards the internationalist flame describe it as just one more wrench in the toolkit of American diplomacy. High ranking figures in the current administration have publicly consigned it to irrelevance, and the modest political attention Washington has been paying this year to the debate on UN institutional reform may be seen as evidence of its marginality. Forgiven, maybe. But they still would be wrong.
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