Joachim Müller and Karl P. Sauvant, “Preface: The Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2019/2020: Seeking to Restrain the Four Horsemen in the Shadow of COVID-19″, in Joachim Müller and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2019/2020 (New York: OUP, 2021), vol. I, pp. IX-XVII.
This brief note reviews the main UN achievements and priorities during 2019/2020, focussing, apart from COVID-19, on geopolitical tensions, the climate crisis, global mistrust and the downsides of technology.