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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Patricia Lewis

Patricia Lewis is Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

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The NPT review conference: no bargains in the UN basement

The United States joined with other states to wreck the nuclear non-proliferation treaty’s 2005 review conference. Patricia Lewis of the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research examines what went wrong.

The UN and Iraq: time to get serious

Divisions over Iraq on the UN Security Council reflect a wider crisis of the world institution. It is time to reaffirm the UN’s core purpose – by suspending Iraq’s membership.

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