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Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s permanent representative to the United Nations, enters the race for the next U.N. secretary-general with a message of practical reform, Charter discipline and small-state realism.

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett Pitches Practical Reform as U.N. Race Turns to Small-State Realism

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s candidate for U.N. secretary-general, used her interactive dialogue to pitch practical reform, Charter discipline, and small-state realism at a moment of war, financial pressure, and doubts over the U.N.’s ability to act.

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Maria Fernanda Espinosa enters the U.N. secretary-general race with a message centered on prevention, delivery, and reform as the contest over the organization’s next leader grows more defined.

Maria Fernanda Espinosa Enters the U.N. Race as a Process Reformer With a Prevention Pitch

Maria Fernanda Espinosa entered the U.N. race with a practical argument: the organization does not lack purpose, it lacks delivery. In her first public test, she made the case for prevention, discipline and a more results-driven United Nations.

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Egypt’s coalition problem is not only about repression or ideology. It is also about weak institutions, personal rivalries, and the failure to build political structures strong enough to survive disagreement.

From a Distance, Looking In: Why Political Coalitions Keep Failing in Egypt

A sharp analysis of why political coalitions in Egypt repeatedly fail, examining the role of a restricted public sphere, weak party structures, distrust, internal rivalries, and the need for rules-based, policy-driven organizing. The article also draws lessons from Poland, Chile, South Africa, and Malaysia on how coalitions can help shape political change.

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From Nakamitsu’s warning to the conference’s unresolved ending, ATN News follows the NPT 2026 Review Conference through credibility, conflict, diplomacy and deadlock.

ATN News Wraps NPT 2026 Series as Treaty Credibility Faces Global Test

ATN News wraps its NPT 2026 Review Conference Series from the United Nations, covering treaty credibility, nuclear risk, Iran, Kazakhstan’s nuclear-free legacy, Oman’s diplomatic push, and the unresolved Middle East WMD-Free Zone question.

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At U.N. Headquarters, the NPT Review Conference ends without agreement, underscoring the widening gap between diplomatic promises on nuclear restraint and the hard realities of today’s security crises.

NPT Review Ends Without Consensus, Leaving Nuclear Bargain More Exposed

The 11th NPT Review Conference ended without consensus, exposing deep strains in the global nuclear bargain. Iran, disarmament, the Middle East WMD-free zone, attacks on nuclear facilities, and AUKUS all showed that the treaty remains alive, but trust around it is fading.

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