The U.N. is embroiled in crises from the Middle East to North Korea. But African conflicts still take up two-thirds of the Security Council’s attention, and 80 percent of U.N. peacekeepers are on the...

Kelly Knight Craft’s first month as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. has been eventful, including the annual General Assembly jamboree and Security Council talks on North Korea and Syria. Craft has...

China and the West are increasingly at loggerheads in Turtle Bay. So are European capitals and Washington. The handling of African crises is contentious as well. Amid these frictions, it is the job...

The absence of an ambassador there has created a mess of confusion and inaction that is hurting the U.S.’s diplomacy on key issues.

China’s involvement in United Nations peacekeeping is one of its better-known investments in the multilateral system. But its contributions to blue helmet missions remain limited, and Beijing has...