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The World Next Week: The United Nations Debates Syria

<p>The United Nations Security Council meets at the U.N. headquarters on January 31, 2012 to discuss Syria. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters)</p>
The United Nations Security Council meets at the U.N. headquarters on January 31, 2012 to discuss Syria. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters)

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the current debate on whether to demand political change in Syria; the forty-eighth Munich International Security Conference; and the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of the European Union, better known as the Maastricht Treaty.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2012/20120202_T…]

The highlights:

The Washington Post discusses the UN Security Council talks on Syria, and Ed Husain writes in The Atlantic that intervention in Syria would be “at our peril.”  Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, and Sam Nunn outline in the New York Times what transatlantic security goals should be, and Deutsche Welle previews the topics likely to be discussed at the Munich Conference. The European Union’s Europa website summarizes the Treaty of Maastricht, and Reuters discusses the Czech and British decisions not to sign the EU’s latest fiscal treaties.