The UN’s flaw is its design, and India’s seat won’t fix it
Last week, the United Nations marked its 81st anniversary, observed as United Nations Day. The occasion renewed attention to a question that has become increasingly difficult to avoid: what place does the UN occupy in a world where, as always, the realist conduct of international relations is starkly exposing the feet of clay on which the quixotic edifice of the UN system stands?
Two Indian interventions offered different ways of approaching the question.
Shashi Tharoor, a former UN official who is now a Congress MP, argued in The Indian Express that the organisation needs to be recreated…
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