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A Robust United Nations in the 21st Century: Benefit, Danger, or Fantasy?

POLICY FORUM
Wednesday, September 6, 2000
12:00 p.m.

Featuring Stefan Halper, Former Deputy Assistant, Secretary of State; William Durch, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center; and Alan Tonelson, Senior Fellow, U.S. Business & Industry Council.

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The United Nations will soon open its 55th session and convene the "Millennium Summit," a series of meetings designed to address "the role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century." Recent UN initiatives have been aimed at forming a stand-by UN army, creating an international criminal court, subordinating national sovereignty to humanitarian concerns, establishing UN protectorates, introducing a global tax on international commerce, redefining human rights to encompass wealth redistribution, and promoting an environmental agenda that could trump private property rights. At the same time, advocates of a robust UN say they are not interested in creating institutions of global governance. So what's really in store for the UN? Please join us as three experts debate the role the UN should have in the 21st century.

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