World Politics Review

If the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh becomes U.N. secretary-general, the danger is a win seen as a corrupt bargain between Gulf capitals and the Security Council’s veto powers—one that would weaken the office’s legitimacy from the start.
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With U.S. President Donald Trump effectively neutered at home after a midterm rout driven by anger over the Iran war, foreign leaders have little incentive to give in to his demands, @ProfPaulPoast writes.
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By entering the U.N. secretary-general race late, the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh avoided straw polls where the Security Council’s permanent members could have rejected her—a sign the route to the job runs through informal understandings with those five powers.
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U.S. President Donald Trump twice won the White House campaigning against foreign wars.

A war of choice against Iran that drove up fuel prices was the first thing he couldn’t talk his way out of—and voters punished Republicans for it in the midterms.
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Two years ago, a report by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi warned that underinvestment and a lack of coherent industrial policy were holding European industry back.

It was lavishly praised, then ignored—and Europe’s automakers are now paying the price.
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