The United Nations World Summit—the largest gathering of heads of state in history—will convene this month to review and debate Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s plan of reform for Turtle Bay.

What are the prospects and challenges for effective UN reform? Is the September summit likely to produce meaningful changes in the performance of the world body? What are the priorities that the Bush administration should set in pushing its own UN reform agenda? Why have so many past attempts at UN reform failed, and is there any reason to hope that the current effort will prove any different?
 
Please join AEI for a high-level panel discussion to discuss these and other questions—to be held one day before the opening of the Sixtieth annual United Nations General Assembly. AEI guest speakers will include Senator Norm Coleman, who has been leading the United States Senate investigation into the UN Oil for Food program; AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich, who co-chaired the recent bipartisan U.S. Institute of Peace report on UN reform; Ambassador Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former director of policy planning for the Department of State; and Dick Thornburgh, former under secretary-general of the United Nations, governor of Pennsylvania, and attorney general of the United States. Vance Serchuk, AEI research fellow, will moderate.