Before the year is out, the United Nations must appoint a new secretary-general. This is an opportunity to be seized, not a misfortune to be endured — precisely because multilateralism is navigating heavy headwinds.
The U.N. must rediscover its core mission: guardian of peace and provider of humanitarian relief at the intersection of national sovereignties. That means keeping its distance from the chimera of a world government lacking any democratic legitimacy, and from the dysfunctions of a bloated bureaucratic contraption. It is also the only way — the sole way, I believe — to open the path toward fairer representation within the U.N. system, and within the Security Council in particular.
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