The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life | Alex Rondos and Mark Medish

We need neither ‘peace in our time’ nor ‘perpetual peace’ – but enough peace to keep civilizationTo save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few powers that govern the security council.The paradox is that the great powers who created the institution in the 1940s…