Not sure what it is, but there’s a thread connecting this story with Eugyipius’ essay on fascism as a distinctly statist political philosophy and the story about the Russian-US dual national just arrested in Russia for (as reported anyway) for making a $50 donation to a Ukrainian relief organization. The flaw (a flaw?) in the intl system of govt organizations post wwII may be in their universal aspirations. Rather than creating systems of liberal states they have evolved post Cold War into amalgamations of liberal as well as profoundly illiberal states. Syria heading the human rights committee at the UN, for example, undermines the legitimacy of the UN in the eyes of liberal minded citizens of the liberal states who hope to see the liberal order sustained. At home, the rise of illiberal majoritarians (the populists) exacerbates this trend. Your salvo this am feels like a piece of a bigger, very important trend.
Perhaps simply stop appointing representatives from nations with ulterior motives and no due process, not just because of the apparent issues with double-dealing, but the gross unlikelihood that the cooperation those nations seek from others will ever be reciprocated on their home soil. (Interpol couldn't even find its former head, Meng Hongwei.)
WTO and IAEA face the bigger problem that their policy agendas no longer command general support. In fact, WTO never did - its creation in the 1990s, with the aim of "writing the constitution of a single global economy" was overreach from the start. Then you had ISDS, overturning environmental laws etc.
IEA seems to do a lot better, even though its original raison d'etre (worries about oil supplies) is now obsolete, and it is focused on the energy transition.
Not sure what it is, but there’s a thread connecting this story with Eugyipius’ essay on fascism as a distinctly statist political philosophy and the story about the Russian-US dual national just arrested in Russia for (as reported anyway) for making a $50 donation to a Ukrainian relief organization. The flaw (a flaw?) in the intl system of govt organizations post wwII may be in their universal aspirations. Rather than creating systems of liberal states they have evolved post Cold War into amalgamations of liberal as well as profoundly illiberal states. Syria heading the human rights committee at the UN, for example, undermines the legitimacy of the UN in the eyes of liberal minded citizens of the liberal states who hope to see the liberal order sustained. At home, the rise of illiberal majoritarians (the populists) exacerbates this trend. Your salvo this am feels like a piece of a bigger, very important trend.
Perhaps simply stop appointing representatives from nations with ulterior motives and no due process, not just because of the apparent issues with double-dealing, but the gross unlikelihood that the cooperation those nations seek from others will ever be reciprocated on their home soil. (Interpol couldn't even find its former head, Meng Hongwei.)
WTO and IAEA face the bigger problem that their policy agendas no longer command general support. In fact, WTO never did - its creation in the 1990s, with the aim of "writing the constitution of a single global economy" was overreach from the start. Then you had ISDS, overturning environmental laws etc.
IEA seems to do a lot better, even though its original raison d'etre (worries about oil supplies) is now obsolete, and it is focused on the energy transition.