US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he would have to decide whether to “annihilate” Iran if Tehran fails to reach a deal to end the war in the Middle East. He added that he believed an agreement was possible after the US midterm elections in November.

Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi is pleased to welcome Fanny Badache, Researcher at Sciences Po and Lecturer at the University of Geneva. The UN mandate is international peace and security, yet its ability to fulfill that mandate ultimately depends on the cooperation of sovereign states, namely the five powerful permanent members of the Security Council. As the UN is confronted with an increasingly fragmented, volatile and unpredictable international order, Badache argues that when those powers are divided, the mechanisms designed to enable collective security can instead produce paralysis. 

During a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new helipad at the White House on Monday, Donald Trump made a brief statement that was inaudible. In response to Trump’s decision to bar MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House, US television networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News, suspended their pooled coverage of the president.