Author profile: Joseph E. Schwartzberg

A lifelong peace and justice activist, Professor Joseph E. Schwartzberg has served in leadership roles in many organizations, especially in those related to world federalism. He was one of the founders in 1995 of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers. After obtaining his PhD, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-64) and the University of Minnesota (1964-2000). A prolific author, his academic specialties were in South Asia and political geography. Professor Schwartzberg (schwa004@umn.edu) will welcome responses from readers to the accompanying essay. For his views on global governance please refer to Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a Workable World, United Nations University Press, 2013, available at https://www.brookings.edu/book/transforming-the-united-nations-system/, and to The Workable World Trust’s website www.workableworld.org.

Has the United Nations Become Irrelevant?

Joseph E. Schwartzberg • Mar 24 2017 • Articles

Seismic shifts in the global geopolitical landscape and other existential issues make the UN more relevant today than ever before in the seven decades of its existence.

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