Multilateralism under Siege in the Age of Trump | CISD, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 20/11/2018

This book launch titled "Multilateralism under Siege in the Age of Trump: Would the World Be Better without the UN?" was given by Professor Tom Weiss at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS University of London on 1 November 2018.
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The inward-looking and populist movements in electoral politics worldwide make robust multilateralism more, not less, compelling. Donald Trump has regularly pilloried the world organization and intergovernmental organizations more generally; his emphasis on "America First" and US sovereignty are serious threats from the UN's most important member state and largest funder; they also are serious threats to a rules-based International order. Do we need the United Nations? Where would the world be without this essential intergovernmental organization?  Where could it be, had the UN's member states and staff performed better?

Biography
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center; he also is Eminent Sc holar at Kyung Hee University and Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Past president of the International Studies Association and recipient of its "2016 Distinguished IO Scholar Award," chair of the Academic Council on the UN System, editor of Global Governance, and Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, he has written extensively about international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. His latest (2018) single-authored book is Would the World Be Better without the UN?