Rocked by scandal and divided in the wake of contentious debates over Iraq, the United Nations faces its most critical hour at a time when many around the world would like it to be an alternative to American power. In his new book, The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward (AEI Press, September 2005), AEI resident scholar Joshua Muravchik argues that reforms offered by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and others are insufficient, and that only radical reforms can save the institution.
      
A presentation by the author will be followed by a discussion with Lee Feinstein, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Lagon, deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs; and Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and director of the International Law and Organization Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced and International Studies. AEI research fellow Vance Serchuk will moderate.