The former Portuguese prime minister brought experience, instinct and reformist ambition to the UN. But Ukraine, Gaza and a broken Security Council turned his decade into a study in constrained leadership. Was António Guterres’s decade at the United Nations like a Ferrari in the Grand Prix of global diplomacy, driven at the speed of a…
At United Nations Headquarters, cocktail receptions are rarely where geopolitical tremors become visible. Diplomatic gatherings in New York tend to follow a familiar script. Journalists attend them regularly, knowing that behind the polite conversations and glasses of wine, there is rarely much substance. Speeches are usually cautious, carefully calibrated not to disturb the delicate balance…
A quarter century after the Palermo Convention, mafias have reinvented themselves online—faster, encrypted, and algorithmic. The U.N.’s new cybercrime treaty may be the world’s best chance to close the widening gap between crime and justice. The mafia no longer hides in the alleys of Palermo—it scrolls, posts, and recruits through TikTok, Telegram, and encrypted channels…
