‘America’s Back’ at the Table: Cataloguing the Biden Administration’s First Security Council Presidency
The Security Council Chamber from the vantage point of the council s president. (United Nations Photo, https://flic.kr/p/Rm3qfG; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
In the first four months of his presidency, President Biden has promised to reengage with the world. He has vowed that America will repair its alliances, renew its leadership in international institutions, and restore its partnerships all with the intention of unraveling the Trump-era foreign policy doctrine of “America First” and replacing it with a new mantra: “America’s back.” The slogan has made its rounds in the State Department and has served as the foundation for many statements made by Biden’s most senior foreign policy officials, not to mention the president himself.
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Conservatives in America demonize George Soros for
funding the Democratic Party and U.S.-imperialistic (or
“neo-conservative”) international organizations, but
he’s actually just a part of a network of around a
thousand or so global aristocrats or billionaires who do
this. Furthermore, within the individual U.S.-and-allied
nations, the billionaires who fund all of the domestic
political parties do the same thing in their own way; and,
in the United States, a different billionaire, the
conservative Charles Koch, is a mega-donor to Republican
politicians and is demonized by Democratic Party voters much
like Soros is demonized by America’s Republican Party
Learning From Recent Independent Reviews of UN Peace Operations
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Independent reviews are increasingly popular tools for evaluating the strategies and performance of United Nations peace operations. They have been requested by both the UN Security Council and the secretary-general, and have covered multidimensional peacekeeping operations such as the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), field-based special political missions including the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and regional offices such as the UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS). Eighteen reviews have taken place since the practice was established in 2017 (see Table 1), with a nineteenth currently underway.
Libya Economic Monitor, Spring 2021
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Libya entered 2020 as a divided nation, with competing political and military factions operating redundant and often conflicting systems of governance. The Government of National Accord (GNA) controlled the country’s western regions around the capital Tripoli, while the Interim Government (IG), backed by the Libyan National Army (LNA), controlled most of the eastern, central, and southern parts of the country. The separate controlling bodies operated on separate budgets. The Central Bank of Libya was divided into parallel branches with Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli controlling the country’s money supply and foreign reserves, with the branch in the east mimicking the central bank’s currency printing function. The National Oil Corporation, based in Tripoli, is solely responsible for oil exports; but the Petroleum Facilities Guard, which secures the country’s oil assets, is divided into rival western and eastern
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