Transforming the United Nations From Raison d'Etat to Raison de Planète
Category: WORLDPOST
For all its imperfections, the UN is the sole international institution of indisputable legitimacy; it has to become the functional center for harmonizing mankind's response to a threat far more insidious than any faced in history -- climate change.  A new global compact is urgently needed -- one that at long last steps beyond the shadow cast by the Great War over the world for the past one hundred years so that we can transform raison d'état into raison de planète; the reason of state to the reason of the planet.
By Vuk Jeremić, ContributorCandidate for UN Secretary-General, 2014-06-23