Yesterday, the European Council on Foreign Relations published a report I’ve co-authored on the EU’s influence on human rights issues at the UN. I’ll save the details for a later post, but here are the headlines: European influence is declining, and the West is looking pretty shaky at the UN as a result. We’ve had some good press coverage so far (including an hysterical piece in the Guardian), but kudos to Die Presse in Austria, which has turned the report’s data into a map. The bluer the country, the more pro-EU it is. The redder, the more anti-EU…

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Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).



