{"id":1241,"date":"2014-12-27T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-12-27T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:20:34","slug":"what-to-watch-for-un70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2014\/12\/27\/what-to-watch-for-un70\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Watch For: #UN70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN is approaching its 70th anniversary in 2015. As with all anniversaries, this is certain to inspire a wave of reflection in scholarly writings. What can we look to as the UN&#8217;s <a href=\"www.un.org\/womenwatch\/timeline\/2014-year-in-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">successes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/syria.unocha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">failings<\/a>? How can the UN system be <a href=\"http:\/\/futureun.org\/en\/Publications-Surveys\/Article?newsid=55&amp;teaserId=1\" target=\"_blank\">made to work better<\/a>? What qualifications should we look for in the<a href=\"http:\/\/passblue.com\/2014\/12\/09\/best-next-or-next-best-in-2016-the-un-secretary-general-must-be-a-reformer\/\" target=\"_blank\"> next Secretary General<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with this milestone anniversary, the UN has already started building promotional materials. One such video appears below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"70 years Strong UN. Better World\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Bq8KmhkUdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN is approaching its 70th anniversary in 2015. As with all anniversaries, this is certain to inspire a wave of reflection in scholarly writings.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2014\/12\/27\/what-to-watch-for-un70\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What to Watch For: #UN70<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[153,164,165],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogposts","category-martin-edwards","tag-153","tag-un70","tag-what-to-watch-for","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}