https://www.scmp.com/rss/512251/feed Rafiq Dossani is director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He works on regional development, security, finance, education, and technology issues. Previously, Dossani was director of Stanford University's Center for South Asia, and a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies. He holds a PhD in finance from Northwestern University, an MBA. from the... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The failure of the United Nations to act on the Russian invasion of Ukraine should not surprise anyone. This appears to be merely the latest demonstration of a two-decade-long trend of the growing ineffectiveness of global multilateral institutions in addressing the world’s diplomatic, security and socioeconomic challenges. In its place, two competing forces seem to be at play. First, there has been a rise in the use of informal arrangements, such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad).... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/world/article/3172577/un-failures-over-ukraine-just-latest-sign-multilateralism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/world/article/3172577/un-failures-over-ukraine-just-latest-sign-multilateralism?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:30:18 +0000