Who Is Willing to Do the “Most Impossible Job on Earth”?
The race to succeed UN Secretary‑General António Guterres is often treated as a personnel question. In reality, it is something far more consequential: a test of whether the office of secretary‑general can still matter politically at all. When Norway’s Trygve Lie, the first secretary‑general of the United Nations, welcomed his successor Dag Hammarskjöld in…