UNESCO is latest U.N. agency to lose the Trump administration's support
Despite co-founding the U.N. agency as a peace-promoting organization, the U.S. has now withdrawn from it two times.
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Rise of populism and trade wars erodes international cooperation
The Trump administration's broadsides embolden nations with poor rights records and encourage attacks on journalists.
U.S. midterm elections will revise America's international outlook
Democrats vowed to redirect, block or investigate the U.S. president's foreign and domestic programs and priorities.
Human rights and children's issues take lead in organizations' retweets
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Fear of retaliation or job loss discourages U.N. whistleblowing
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement.
Trump calls U.N. 'unaccountable' in boastful attack on multilateralism
At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. president attacked the world body as a largely useless "global bureaucracy."
Under U.S. pressure, WTO welcomes revamp from G-20 trade ministers
The World Trade Organization is a major target of the Trump administration, which prefers to let the U.S. set its own tariffs.
Trump threatens pullout from WTO in latest snub of multilateralism
The U.S. president said he would withdraw the U.S. from the independent World Trade Organization if it doesn't 'shape up.'
Military space force proposed by Trump may flout international treaty
The U.S. president's proposed 'Space Force' would create a new service to prepare for conflict and war in outer space.
Twiplomacy study of social media finds 'all the world's atwitter'
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An 'alphabet soup' of high seas rules stands in way of sustainability
Ocean areas and deep seabeds beyond national jurisdictions fall within a patchwork of rules for the global commons.
Trump administration abandons the U.N.'s top human rights body
The U.S. president, complaining of bias against Israel, said America's participation will be reduced to observer status.
'Low profile' diplomacy: North Korea's hidden avenues to the world
A summit with the U.S. could expand North Korea's little-known involvement with international organizations.
Social media outreach is the new ‘game-changing opportunity’
By the start of 2018, the governments of 92% of the U.N.'s 193 member nations belonged to the Twitterverse.
International cooperation is shaped by a history of waterways and wars
The first international organization dates to an 1804 Rhine River treaty. In the 20th century, organizations proliferated.