The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the world’s pre-eminent and most inclusive multilateral forum, started last week in New York. Rather than a cause for celebration, the gathering unfolded amid stark reminders of the present: a world riven by wars, growing geopolitical rivalries, and shifting power balances—compounded by President Trump’s unilateralism. While many speakers…

This post is a story of the bizarre. Its, perhaps unlikely, subject is the adoption of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution (A/78/L.67/Rev.1), which established 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica. As its name indicates, the resolution was meant to commemorate the victims…

On September 4, 2020, an economic relations agreement was signed between Serbia and Kosovo, as part of efforts to resolve the long-standing dispute about Kosovo’s independence. It was brokered by the Trump administration and signed at the White House. President Trump called the agreement historic and its signatories – the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and Prime Minister…