In this edition of UN Plaza I sit down with Suzanne Nossel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. Prior to that role, Nossel worked with Human Rights Watch and is the founder of the excellent blog, Democracy Arsenal. She's also the person who first coined the term "smart power" in a 2004 Foreign Affairs article about how to better harness international institutions to serve American and global interests. <
How can UN peacekeeping do a better job of protecting civlians in harm's way? Find out in this edition of UN Plaza, in which I speak with Erin Weir of Refugees International about her new report on civilian protection in UN Peacekeeping. Enjoy!
The author of The Bottom Billion, Wars Guns and Votes sits down with me to talk about Haiti reconstruction. Collier has something of a front line view of this effort. He was tapped by the secretary general to write a report on Haiti's recovery for the United Nations last year. In the diavlog, Paul explains the roots of Haiti's poverty and explains how best the international community can manage Haiti's recovery.
In this edition of UN Plaza, I speak with Yemen expert Gregory Johnsen. As I mentioned in the diavlog, the UN has been warning about a brewing humanitarian crisis in Yemen since last fall. When I first approached Gregory for the interview before Christmas this was to be the topic of the interview. Clearly, Yemen has been thrust into the international spotlight since since then for reasons other than its swelling numbers internally displaced people.
In this edition of UN Plaza, I speak with Gregory Hartl of the World Health Organization about the WHO's role in combating H1N1, a.k.a swine flu, world wide.
In this edition of UN Plaza, I chat with Peter Hakim of the Inter-American Dialogue about what has happened in Honduras since the coup. In the clip below, Hakim outlines what he describes as a few American-missteps in handling this crisis.
In this edition of UN Plaza, I speak with Sam Bell of the Genocide Intervention Network about the administration's newly released Sudan policy review.
Our very own Alanna Shaikh makes her blogging heads debut. Our woman in Tajikstan discusses the politics of the 'stans and major health issues facing the region. She is joined by Sundaa Bridget Jones of the Council on Foreign Relations.
David and I discuss his new book, Five to Rule them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World