Introduction The United Nations (UN) was conceived in 1945 as an institutional response to the catastrophic failures of interwar collective security and as a normative project aimed at regulating the conduct of states through law, diplomacy, and multilateral cooperation. Yet from its inception, the UN has existed in a constitutive tension: while normatively committed to … Continue reading To what extent is the United Nations structurally embedded within the power configurations of the international system? In an emerging multipolar order, will the UN become more autonomous or more constrained by power politics?